»Queer remembering of the Nazi era – does that exist? Lecture, reading and conversation with Dr. Lutz van Dijk«
Description
Remembering sexual and gender minorities after 1945 was not welcome in official commemorations. There is now a culture of remembrance in Germany and a few other countries that explicitly includes homosexual women and men. At the Holocaust memorial hour in the German Bundestag on January 27, 2023, queer people were remembered as Nazi victims for the first time. This is still not possible at the Auschwitz Memorial today. In his lecture, Dr. Lutz van Dijk asks why this is so and how remembering can be made more visible.
Van Dijk is a German-Dutch writer, historian and educator who lives in Amsterdam and Cape Town.
The event is part of the supporting program for the exhibition “Exclusion from the national community. Persecution of homosexuals in the Nazi era” – a work result of the research projects and the Rosa Winkel working group at the Kulturring in Berlin eV since 1997.
The exhibition and events are carried out in a cooperation between the Rat&Tat Center for Queer Life and the Stadtbibliothek Bremen with the support of the Gay Friends Bremen Foundation. The exhibition was made available by the Kulturring Berlin and the AG Rosa Winkel.
Please also visit our accompanying exhibition on the topic .
Where and when
June 3rd, 2024 from 7:30 p.mFree event