Berend-Lehmann-Museum Halberstadt
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Lena Grundhuber
Nazi-looted cultural property

Save the Date: Podiumsdiskussion und digitale Konferenz "Die Peripherie im Zentrum" 13.-15. November 2022

This Novem­ber, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion is once again hold­ing its an­nu­al au­tumn con­fer­ence: the dig­i­tal con­fer­ence en­ti­tled Die Pe­riph­erie im Zen­trum. Vergessenes, Ver­drängtes und Ver­nach­läs­sigtes in der Prove­nien­z­forschung (“The pe­riph­ery at the cen­tre. What gets for­got­ten, re­pressed and ne­glect­ed in prove­nance re­search”) on 14 and 15 Novem­ber will fo­cus on prove­nance re­search be­yond the ma­jor cities and in­sti­tu­tions – in the coun­try­side, in bor­der re­gions and in small­er mu­se­ums.

The fo­cus is not on promi­nent works of art but on the fre­quent­ly ne­glect­ed ob­jects such as house­hold ef­fects and be­long­ings that were stolen from per­se­cut­ed Jew­ish cit­i­zens dur­ing the Na­tion­al So­cial­ist era. Rather than look­ing at the role of high-rank­ing Na­tion­al So­cial­ist func­tionar­ies, light will be cast on the work done by mu­se­um cu­ra­tors in the provinces, for ex­am­ple. One par­tic­u­lar fo­cus will be on per­se­cut­ed groups that have re­ceived lit­tle at­ten­tion to date.

To start the con­fer­ence, the Foun­da­tion will be hold­ing a pan­el dis­cus­sion in co­op­er­a­tion with Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Hal­ber­stadt on 13 Novem­ber 2022 at Hal­ber­stadt Town Hall. 

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty will speak on the top­ic Erneuerung aus der Erin­nerung? Jüdis­ches Leben zwis­chen Tra­di­tion, Ver­fol­gung und Neube­ginn“ (“Re­new­al from mem­o­ry? Jew­ish life be­tween tra­di­tion, per­se­cu­tion and a new be­gin­ning”). The theme will be the re­vival of Jew­ish life to­day – es­pe­cial­ly in the pe­riph­ery – and the ques­tion of how the re­con­struc­tion of Jew­ish his­to­ry can con­tribute to this. The pan­el will be mod­er­at­ed by Ste­fan Nölke (MDR KUL­TUR ed­i­tor) and broad­cast two days lat­er, on 15 Novem­ber, on MDR KUL­TUR – Das Ra­dio. The mem­bers of the pan­el will be as fol­lows: Jut­ta Dick (Board of Di­rec­tors of Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Foun­da­tion Hal­ber­stadt), Ju­lia Hirsch (de­scen­dant of the Hirsch fam­i­ly from Hal­ber­stadt), Al­fred Ja­co­by (ar­chi­tect of the new syn­a­gogue in Dessau and Hon­orary Chair of the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Of­fen­bach am Main), State Rab­bi Alexan­der Nachama (Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Thuringia) and Her­mann Si­mon (Found­ing Di­rec­tor of the New Syn­a­gogue Foun­da­tion Berlin – Cen­trum Ju­daicum).

Please note: there is a lim­it on the num­ber of pan­el dis­cus­sion par­tic­i­pants. Fur­ther­more, due to the pan­dem­ic, we are un­able to guar­an­tee that the event will take place on an in-per­son ba­sis. How­ev­er, it will be streamed live on the Foun­da­tion’s YouTube chan­nel and will be avail­able in the ARD au­dio li­brary for a year af­ter broad­cast on MDR ra­dio.

In mid-Septem­ber, the de­tailed con­fer­ence pro­gramme will be pub­lished on our dig­i­tal event plat­form and on www.kul­turgutver­luste.de, and it will be pos­si­ble to sign up for the con­fer­ence and pan­el dis­cus­sion.
We look for­ward to wel­com­ing you to our con­fer­ence. If you have any ques­tions, please con­tact our col­league Hein­rich Natho on 0391/727 763-23 or con­fer­ence@kul­turgutver­luste.de

 

Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Lena Grundhuber
Berend-Lehmann-Museum Halberstadt