What is home and what makes a home home in the geminis been reunified for 30 years we mark the anniversary by exploring the german concept of high mt hunger. And. No crow has lived in the us for almost 20 years she is an illustrator and writer and a professor at a new york on school. We met her in berlin at the plugs and see Memorial Center for victims of the nazis. To be german has always been to feel a sense of guilt and a winner of things unsaid in the future like many germans and i grew up knowing that members of my family had been soldiers makita of anzai but you werent allowed to mourn to acknowledge and. It was only when i read letters written by the brother of my paternal grandfather which were very emotional and i have to say she wasnt a supporter of nazi ideology going for that i allowed these feelings to come out for the 1st time ever. Belonging a german reckons with history and harm has been translated into numerous languages and won a number of awards in it she unearths a story of her grandfather and an uncle who was only a teenager when he died in the war. Isnt interested in concepts of guilt victims and perpetrators but in the masses who didnt rise up against the nazi regime and thereby in able to its crimes the fellow travellers. Firstly because they were in a majority and secondly because its such a vague term there were some fellow travelers who helped jewish people and save their lives but then there were others who committed horrendous atrocities and in a way theyre the ones who make us most uncomfortable because theyre the ones we most identify with. Nora kruger takes over readers on a journey into her familys past starting with her own experience of facing hostility as a juman. And the shame she felt the 1st time she met a holocaust survivor in new york she put on an accent to cover up her german. And the growing urge she felt to investigate her own familys role in the war. Whenever she visited germany she would trawl through flea markets on the hunt for clues to the past photographs postcards documents anything that gave her insight into the nazi era and help to understand what it means to be chairman today. Hes been grew up with german culture. I was raised in germany i grew up speaking german and of course that gave me a very deeply rooted understanding of whats home. Even though i live in the us and these days im more at home there than i am in germany when i visit germany i would never refer to the us as home. Even though its where most of my friends are. Because to me home is closely tied to my childhood home a. Place that defined you at an early age. To me thats an important part of the concept of how tired of homework because. Nora talked to her family and collected everything she could find from letters to School Exercise book that once belonged to her uncle to her horror one of his is says was titled the jew supports in a smash room testaments to the nazis racist ideology and how it infiltrated the classroom. She collected everything she found in a sort of scrap book juxtaposing the stories she heard and the documents she found with her own illustrations inspired by family law such as the moment her fathers family was informed of the death of the firstborn son franz cole was 18 when he was shot in italy describes a conversation with her fathers cousin how memories came pouring out of her like ice melting. Home as she discovered is not necessarily something positive its a concept in extra could be tied up with the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countrys pasts. There because. The term. Home changes as Society Changes and in the course of time everybody should be able to decide for themselves what it means. That was the reason why the book was called in germany before its a loving attempt to reach out to germany. But at the same time its a commitment to keep examining the past and commitments. For. Home says nora kroeger means carrying the burden of history but its also a longing for songs landscapes the bits and pieces of a life its both terrifying and wonderful. In berlin theres still one Original Section of the girl and water remaining us personally from my days as an east german border guard i was 18 at the time and had pledged to oath to defend my communist homeland but after a few months i refused to perform Armed Service was demoted and experienced the fall of the wall locked up in the barracks i hated to walk yet i also awaited the friends that followed the show of from one contrived homeland to another being essentially the next was something i considered wrong and dangerous and jet even after 30 years of a reunified germany im thrilled that a piece of the wall is still standing. A friend of mine urban archaeologist startled concer often to tell terse about it. And for months since the summer people sense that this is a bit of a special place i think thats true though it has a kind of aura folks come here and feel like theyre intruding on something im just like now they ask where can i see the wall and i tell them this is the real war and theyre like ah ok people are always seeking authenticity and then comes where is east and where is west because no one can really notice or imagine that anymore and that kind of has a. Question. As to what is it about that wall that interests you it more as if it were so im interested in urban history. And in everything that also has an impact on society. And theres nothing more blatant than a physical barrier that divides a society. These days people no longer talk about unification healing the scars of the vision it didnt take long for disillusionment to set in former east germans were to take part in the free market but not have a share that just 5 percent of east germany stayed on property sold off by the tri hand agency went to east germans at the same time east germany was officially branded as an illegitimate state a dictatorship robbing people of the former home. Being robbed of your homeland is such a loaded concept. I see it more as an egg ation of your experiences your memories of your past. That deprives you of your existential need to find your place in the world maybe that something connected with homeland being robbed of your very existence. With parents but. Then 16 years later germany was awash in flags in the east and west north and south the world cup truly united the country which was caught up in football fever. Yeah that was cool. Yeah 2006 everyone had germany flags on their cars. And yeah i went to university with a gemini flag painted on my face but then i also went there sporting the turkish flag. And my professor from the saddle and came to me says even with anger you cant be for germany one day and take you the next you have to choose one thing you cant be for one sometimes and then for the other and when i said sure you can he got all huffy and thats what i mean with love for your homeland its possible and its enriching its not a burden to love more than one. Homeland and its not just about nationality its also about specific. Flags have never made me feel patriotic to me homeland has more to do with the landscape in which i find peace the aroma of pumpkin soup cooking in a fire pits in the yard of the sound of folk songs of the many things i love about my home none are political why germany needs a Home Ministry remains unclear to me this is how my Homeland Ministry isnt a nice way of uniting its mind so i know this unity thing german unity i think this word has to go i mean. Does it. Must break. Why do we have to me is a single entity id rather we have affectionate german affection. Perhaps the wall is a good projection screen for that a symbol of the possibility for change the way of encouraging people to define themselves what they call home or smacked him or not but i still like the war like the ones from yes for me its a symbol of something positive. Yes namely that nothing stays the way you think it will nothing last forever and fundamental skepticism over everything is always judicious. Thats a super statement really yeah. Disrespect the wall is a real piece of home to me taught me to doubt things down to africa including contrived ideas about my homeland. 2 at the n. S. C. Trial in munich in 2018 to be out of shape who was convicted for her involvement in 10 murders for over 5 years the terror group known as the National Socialist underground went on a murder spree targeting immigrants older men children had lived in germany food leaves. Their new home betrayed them. The trial is a central theme in his life and work. For a writer and director one who researches germanys dark side for years callus has been studying the n. S. U. And waiting his way through thousands of pages of trial transcripts with terrifying results. We suspect that this anisya complex didnt dissolve but instead migrated and our security apparatus. On the lookout for hidden fire writes networks. In 2014 callus wrote a play called deal for the gap about the n. S. C. Bomb attack on quote stress in cologne it starred actors and local residents of turkish origin for a long time the Police Suspected them of being behind the bombing the victims were treated like perpetrators thats a vein in the play callous also shows that the murders exacted yet another victim germanys open and largely tolerant society. Callus knows that he or his own father could have been targeted by the ennis you so he holds up a mirror to his home born in germany callouses the. Of an armenian father and a jewish mother who both immigrated to germany from turkey callus himself is a german citizen and yet. It is often certainly a quest but in exploration of the question ive asked myself what does this word highlight home really mean to me what parts of brought me here. Meaning a land of the fathers but the wrong place for calloused. It should have the us from in this fathers day. I said in my fathers ashes and down the hill of this toy when the globes them on to the shrubs and bushes once the ashes settled around their enlisting it was of the rocks which surround me my father asked composer but i do not believe what you need to hear. Not in armenia. But in bielefeld this is where he belongs where carlos was born worked as a bouncer and almost ended up in the wrong crowd. But he wrote about his experience is autobiographical novel was angry and fierce and helped him liberate himself from his family from his roots in the reason. There is a suit. In the engine is enough. For a lot of them were saw it as a burden. Demand a rock solid stroke of the courage as a young person to apply right to this album i wanted to rip myself. Up as. Callous studies writes plays and directs in berlin stuttgart cologne dresden challenging stereotypes and defying expectations in his work he takes a keen critical look at german culture and society because she regularly receives hate mails and Death Threats sometimes his premieres take place under Police Protection he keeps fighting for precisely this reason its. Because the craft is no driving forces the fact that what surrounds me as rogue. Are still up against strong antagonists its a rest stop working no i leave room for them. And and but since i see myself as a soldier in a battle you know i dont come from. A battle with the right wing extremist threat that is still growing in germany neuron daubert colas for him identity and home are questions with no clear answers. I will return and settle i will mix like a parasite in a society that i didnt choose as i will be a hero if people want to see me look as a hero then money a role model if necessary and for a cautionary tale the phone must an absolute necessity isnt business that miles. My feeling of homeland is at its strongest what im sitting on a plane or a high speed train when im moving. In of course theres an internal story of images my own roots there is so beautiful landscapes in the east the skies of mecklenburg to ring in forest all of that is homeland but its also tied up with the bitter struggle sikes perience to east germany is no 2 ways about it. We had a community that in the scope of us frequently asked to participate in discussions and especially now in celebration of the 30th anniversary of german reunification. Weve become experts are trivializing east germany or interestingly this 3 younger generations to accomplish although they have no experience of dictatorship. Thats really intriguing. In the west the 68 generation demand has an open discussion about the Holocaust Victims and that the victims be rehabilitated. One obvious question for me is why todays young generations have clearly over identified with their parents and dont see east german history as a history of dictatorship that. Was born addressed a grew up again the daughter of the communist party her father was officially the head of a socialist youth club but worked undercover as a starting agent holding 8 different identities it was also a man who brutally justifies his children. Ran away at the age of 14 becoming one of the countrys top female sprinters like many of her fellow athletes she was secretly subjected to doping only later did she find out just how heavily. She studied german fled the g. D. R. In 1989 and continued her study the west. After receiving teaching assignments she became a professor and writer focusing on the issue of committed terms with the east german past. I think this idea of german unity a lot with all the happiness and pride that it was a peaceful revolution clearly made as a match and in the east and the west that things would be a little easier. Life there for. You and i find it specially right now it would be good for east germans to to recognize what a tough journey its been on getting rid of the dictatorship also an internal one within our collective social psyche we underestimated the heavy traumatic toll of such a long dictatorship. That woodside we havent even got to the stories of the victims yet. In her book which translates as contested zone was published in 2019 interweaves contemporary history with that of her own family analyzing the reasons for xenophobia and with anger at the state originates in eastern germany on average the right wing populist party has twice as many voters in the east as in the west. The east wanted to get rid of their dictatorship wanted to be free wanted to be a United Country along with other germans. Up. To now there are many who feel left behind humiliated we could even say colonized but on the contrary we are in another new friends now we in the east have to decal a nice ourselves. What emerges from that can be pretty potent. For any type of the fall of the berlin wall and 989. 00 was a joyous experience that has to do with her own history of course but she hopes that a civilian will be part of the positive narrative of people driven both west to east we dont have to become artificially homogenous but we need to find our way out of a negative mindset so i saying recently why shouldnt east germans win the Nobel Peace Prize yes they ought to receive this external knowledge under their historic achievement so that they can finally appreciate it internally and. In search of europe in a new exhibition 22 photographers with the last kreutzer agency look at the continent from 22 angles exploring questions about identity about past and future the results are highly political and very private. In a borderless europe what exactly does home mean. In a schoenberg went to the river order on the german polish border to find out. Baggage that after the 1st time i thought about the construct of borders in this way. The landscape there looks no different from that on the brandenburg side exult completely familiar. A landscape steeped in tragic history and in melancholy. The people who live here were forcibly. Relocated after the 2nd world war and originally came from a completely different part of the country. For decades it was incredibly difficult for them to become attached to the region to feel at home there because they were always afraid of being displaced again before. You can see that a bit when you drive through the region some of the villages are a little bleak. Portraits of young people from a german polish Community Project that expresses a deep yearning for roots. Porn and i think the idea of home plays an Important Role in poland they are much more attached to home. And of course its true that nationalism is on the rise. And that its fueled by fears of a global ization before. And the loss of national identity. An open europe an idealistic project thats lost much of its sheen many countries of reinforcing borders and retreating into themselves the rise of nationalism is a topic that s been also tackles. There see this trend which is very strong europe right now it was a very serious threat it was. Very interesting then i began to wonder if i myself feel any sense of nationalism or at least. And i began thinking about where i come from i mean for. One in norway explores what connects him to his origins the photographs the life if you scrape uncle. He will probably die in the same town he was born in a completely different life to i called his own he left the town when he was too. Drawn to it time and time and. To me its one of many homes. Its possible to have multiple homes. Can you have multiple homes doesnt that go against the very idea how many routes can take root. Which is contained in the idea of home visits sometimes too much i think. The idea is to load out totally overwhelmed before thats why i prefer to talk about being present on the. Pitches depict an ambivalent relationship you can find. Moments against the vastness of the landscape. When i am always i realize that for me it is also about saying goodbye and maybe even disillusionment. Negative but its not meant to be. If you strip away illusions then you see more clearly for me its kind of a burden that you have to remember the size and idealize a place of origin so for me which feels very much like a liberation from before i. Phone an idea thats always shifting in our globalised era its harder than ever to pin it down an idea charged with significance and sometimes. The problem is that nationalism that focus so heavily on this idea of home has in fact can be something quite wonderful it can be custom dialect idiosyncrasies and unique next. Its great that in europe we have this unity in diversity. I had a nephew. Perhaps essentially home. Its about belonging and we all want to belong in that sense its an idea that unites us. And how i. Find gemini 5 approaches to the concept of hug goodbye and off it is and from 20. To. A larger conspiracy at the saudi consulate. A body that will never be found plot connected to the highest levels of government why do journalists Jamal Khashoggi have to die. This threatened violence for. 2 years later and the reasons are still unclear the case of Jamal Khashoggi. 15 minutes on t w. They shared one dream to stop. Not for young migrants in sicily to face if their life a living hell was put in prison they say what i went through. Is not really want to. Give you 25 years of my back you cannot survive on that coming here you are running from the wall you are running from. The 77 percent. Of the 90 minutes on d w. Closely. Carefully. To suit me. To be a good. Match. To discover who. Subscribe to the documentary on you tube. This is some notes story a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. His problems past. His credo photochemical. And his current. Step. Out. Strike. The students on the path. Training successful. Zucker. Starts oct 15th w. This is. From u. S. President donald trump speaks from the hospital where hes being treated for covert 19. Wasnt feeling so well i feel much better now. But he says he still faces a critical next few days in his fight against the coronavirus will get the latest from our correspondent in washington also coming up. Germany celebrates 30 years of reunification president. The last 3
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.