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Lecture evening with panel discussion: El Alamein: Perspectives from Egyptian and German memory

@FB 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies
  • Date: 10/31/2024
  • Time: 18:00 - 20:00
  • Place: Museum Fridericianum
  • Organizer: documenta Institute (Moderation: Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez FB 02/IfG)

El Alamein
The battles in the desert of El Alamein, in which the involvement of Egyptian soldiers is often neglected, ended 80 years ago. In the 1950s, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission) erected the burial site
El Alamein. As part of the memorial architecture of the young Federal Republic of Germany, it is therefore a historical and architectural
place of remembrance. We want to show the lines of the German and Egyptian culture of remembrance and ask how we can interpret them for the future despite existing dissonances.


Greetings
→ Andreas Hoffmann, Managing Director of documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
→ Sven Schoeller, Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel
→ Dirk Backen, Secretary General of the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.)
→ Felix Münch, Permanent Representative of the Director of the State Center for Political Education in Hesse

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