Remembrance | Getting started
Remembering is sometimes not enough
What does this Togolese talking drum have to do with German remembrance culture? A great deal. Why? Because it has spent many decades in storage at the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig with the comment “Acquisition circumstances unknown”. Colonial researcher and DAAD alumnus Dr Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa knows drums like this from his home country. In Togo they signify a special status. In Germany the drum is a symbol that remembering is sometimes not enough. Actions need to follow. Stories need to be told correctly and stolen goods returned. That is the foundation for living together in peace, for academic exchange based on partnership and for life without hate and extremism. The DAAD is aware of this responsibility. In this issue you can read more about how new DAAD programmes are making an important contribution here. Remembering is not enough, but it is a first step. —
Remembrance | Interview
Lessons of the past
Professor Martin Schulze Wessel, DAAD alumnus and one of the most renowned German experts on Eastern European history, discusses the war in Ukraine.
Remembrance | Engaging in exchange
“A transformative experience”
Germany Close Up – North American Jews Meet Modern Germany offers an opportunity to experience the many facets of Germany. This transatlantic programme is aimed at Jewish students and young professionals from North America.
Remembrance | Engaging in exchange
Remembrance work for the sake of peace
The German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ is committed to critically examining the decades-long conflict in the South American country.
Remembrance | Just asking
Support for Ukraine
DAAD President Professor Joybrato Mukherjee on the historical responsibility for Ukraine and the commitment to free academic exchange.
Remembrance | In action
Mission: To remember
The award-winning Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee Choi talks about sanctioned amnesia and a moving example of remembrance culture. READ MORE
Remembrance | In action
The wounds can still be felt to this day
In her guest contribution, Michaela Küchler explains why Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, together with its intermediary organisations like the DAAD, is committed to a future-oriented culture remembrance culture. READ MORE
Remembrance | In action
“Knowledge is like a baobab”
Religious objects, deities and icons: German studies specialist, colonial historian and DAAD alumnus Dr Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa aims to clarify where the items stored at GRASSI Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig stem from, who they were taken from and how they came to Germany.
Remembrance | In dialogue
“A better understanding of heritage management”
How can academic exchange influence a country’s remembrance culture?
We recorded a dialogue between Dr Britta Rudolff, head of the international Master programme on heritage conservation and site management, and Mohamed Amer from Egypt, one of her former students.
Remembrance | Keeping in touch
Traces of the past
The DAAD Regional Office Rio de Janeiro is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022. Its director, Dr Jochen Hellmann, recalls an event that even dates much further back: the start of German immigration to Brazil around 200 years ago. READ MORE