Interventions
Since the 1980s, the politics of remembrance and the central place held by the Holocaust therein have moved into the focus of a global cultural policy debate. Triggered by popular formats such as TV series, the establishment of Holocaust museums, and the erection of memorial sites and memorials, and by documentations, feature films, plays, as well as exhibitions, the highly controversial debate has addressed and continues to address the question of the sense and form of Holocaust remembrance as well as its possibilities and limits.
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) understands its educational mission as the task of preserving the visibility of the cultural context of remembrance and the media anthropological background as well as the discursive context of popular remembrance of the Holocaust and other genocides for its audience. The materiality and the act of remembrance itself are focussed on by making these the very topic and issue of educational questions. This is achieved on the one hand via academic debate and reasoning, on the other by testing the issue in various contexts by experiment. The latter takes place in the framework of “Interventions in Public Spaces”, involving especially artists and writers.
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Echoes, memories, and aftereffects – resonances – are usually laden with emotion, sentimental and individual. The aim of this event series is therefore to cultivate anew a conversation beyond the today much discussed ‘echo chambers’ of social media and to offer a space for mutual thought and reflection – in other words for resonating – at the intersection of living memory, collective memory, and scholarly analysis: Different aspects of, approaches to, and perspectives on the research areas of the VWI will be sounded out here; intergenerational conversations will be enabled; questioning, ruminating, and doubting will be allowed – borrowing freely from the words of Bertolt Brecht and Marcel Reich-Ranicki: “Curtains closed and all the questions open.”
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Spurensuche an einem vergessenen Ort. Ein Abend in der ehemaligen Synagoge Kaschlgasse. | |||
Tuesday, 9. November 2010, 18:30 2., Kaschlgasse 4
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600 Plätze fasste die 1932 eingeweihte Synagoge des galizischen Bethaus- und Unterstützungsvereins „Bene Berith“. In ein Wohnhaus integriert, entging der im Novemberpogrom verwüstete Bau damals seiner vollkommenen Zerstörung. Dennoch wird die Auslöschung augenscheinlich: Weniger als ein Jahrhundert danach bedarf es archäologischer Methoden und komplexer Simulationen, um den ehemaligen Sakralbau zu erkennen.
Der Abend öffnet für kurze Zeit die vergessenen Räume, legt Spuren frei und lässt Bilder der ursprünglichen Gestalt entstehen, zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer über das virtuelle hinausweisenden Rekonstruktion. Es bleibt ein unwirtlicher Ort.
Markus Kupferblum liest aus den Brandbüchern der Wiener Feuerwehr und aus Augenzeugenberichten
19:00 Jüdische Brigittenau Eleonore Lappin im Gespräch mit Kurt Rosenkranz und Vladimir Vertlib
20:00 Grabungsort Kaschlgasse Bob Martens und Herbert Peter über die Wiederentdeckung und Möglichkeiten der Rekonstruktion
21:00 Spuren des Sakralen Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek führt durch die ehemalige Synagoge
Video der Veranstlatung auf YouTube
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