Thursday 2.11.2023 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
The lecture by Prof. h.c. Dr. phil. Tessa Hofmann in the context of the exhibition Das Herz des Orients gewinnen! Armenier, Eziden und Kurden bei Karl May und wie sie sich selbst sehen deals first with the constituents of Armenian history (division between neighboring great powers, centuries of foreign rule) and then devotes itself mainly to the course and particularities of the extermination in the First World War. Special attention is further given to the difficulty of photographic documentation of genocide due to political restrictions and prohibitions. Finally, the lecture deals with the general topic of Karl May and his anti-Armenian (also anti-Greek) reservations.
Prof. h.c. Dr. phil. Tessa Hofmann is a philologist and sociologist specializing in Armenology and genocide studies and was formerly a research associate at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
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