Reading and talk with Asal Dardan: Traumaland

Offer for secondary school classes as part of the young globale° and the globale° 2025 festival

Traumaland
A search for traces in the German past and present
“In order not to lose our present, it is not enough just to remember the past. We must also recognize the threads from there to here. And this is exactly what Asal Dardan does with a painfully clear view.” Gabriele von Arnim

“Asal Dardan creates a cartography of the fragile that shows us the way to a new memory work.” Deniz Utlu

Not being able to wipe away the blood, not being able to erase the fact that it has flowed. To make the crime and thus the guilt visible, even if the perpetrators never raised their own hands and the victims remained invisible: There is blood on your hands. This is how Asal Dardan justifies the necessity of remembering, the responsibility of those born after. In Traumaland, she creates a new topography of Germany, goes in search of traces, shows parallel and contradictory experiences in the immigration society. The past painfully protrudes into our present, the Nazi crimes find a cruel echo today in racist acts of violence, but also in the traumatic experiences of minorities.
Who makes German history? Who bears responsibility for past guilt? Which memories are told, which remain unheard? Asal Dardan confronts entrenched memory discourses with her search for connections in the hope of a shared memory in which different realities find a place.

Moderation: Lena Prötzel
free of charge

We look forward to your registration and a lively participation!

Contact for questions about the event: Myriam Macé for the young globale°, e-mail: globale@uni-bremen.de

In cooperation with the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art.

Registration by 02.10. by e-mail to info@weserburg.de.