That art, which was once robbed in the German colonies, can no longer be simply exhibited in German museums, there is a consensus that to a large extent. Also the fact that there is a blind spot in German history. Possible that, a young man from Germany travels in the holidays to Cameroon or Namibia, and does not suspect that his ancestors have raged as a Colonizer. That’s about to change.
Green call for more provenance research
The work-up of colonialism is, after all, for the first time in the coalition agreement. The Minister of State for women, Michelle Müntefering, and Monika Grütters explicit: more money for provenance research for colonial objects, cooperation with Africa, increased cultural exchange. Many the to slowly, that is happening too little. The group of Alliance 90/The Greens calls for not only the legal foundations for provenance research and Restitution of cultural goods from Africa, but also a reminder and a place of study in Berlin, regardless of the Humboldt Forum. With this application, has on Thursday evening, the Bundestag, in a debate. Now, the concern should be referred for advice to the Committee for culture and the media.
AfD against reprocessing
Even if all of the parties – a welcome addition to the AfD, the reappraisal of the colonial period, there are hardly any supporters for the early establishment of a Erinnerungsorts. “No one is helped, if in the short term, a memorial will be built”, – said the Deputy Ansgar Heveling of the group of CDU/CSU. Such a step could not be at the beginning of the debate. And since we are in Germany: in the very beginning. Instead, the basics. A working group of the Federation and the länder, which was formed in the framework of the conference of Ministers of Culture, working seems to be a common positioning for dealing with colonial cultural goods, which can lie not only in the great ethnological museums, but also in city museums, churches and municipal facilities. The 2018 published guidelines of the German museums Association to receive an update.
16 researchers in Berlin
According to the AfD’s Deputy Marc Jongen cultured Germany fours a guilt complex, it is the further sellout of our country, the threat””. A request to the AfD, how many employees there are in the Berlin Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian art, provenance research, it was found that: There are ten and 16. Basically so much to a few. SPD Deputy Helge Lindh proposes, however, in terms of African collection of pieces in German museums to give up control. It is not up to us to decide what to do with these objects. The African countries would have the Say. It will take the Euro-centric perspective, perhaps the Reflex of the desire to store – and must be made by all in the society wide, not just some specialists. Europe needs to re-learn to think. And when we are come thus forward, perhaps there is also other ideas about how a site might look like.