“Queer remembrance of the Nazi era – does it exist? Lecture, reading and discussion with Dr. Lutz van Dijk”

Description

In official commemorations after 1945, remembering sexual and gender minorities was unwelcome. Now, in Germany and a few other countries, there is a culture of remembrance that explicitly includes homosexual women and men. At the Holocaust memorial service in the German Bundestag on January 27, 2023, queer people were commemorated as victims of the Nazi regime for the first time. At the Auschwitz Memorial, this is still not possible. In his lecture, Dr. Lutz van Dijk explores why this is the case and how remembrance 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 result of the research projects and the Rosa Winkel working group at the Kulturring in Berlin eV since 1997.

The exhibition and events are a collaboration between the Rat&Tat Center for Queer Life and the Stadtbibliothek Bremen with support from the Bremen Gay Friends Foundation. The exhibition was provided by Kulturring Berlin and the Rosa Winkel Working Group.

Visit our accompanying exhibition on the same topic.

Where and when

Free event