Asal Dardan: Traumaland

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The German past continues to have an impact today and demands a common remembrance that unites different realities - Asal Dardan in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Asal Dardan emphasizes the responsibility of the German descendants of the Second World War to make the past visible: The blood that was spilled cannot be undone and the guilt remains, even if the perpetrators appear invisible.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

Registration is not required. As we have a very limited capacity on site, we kindly ask you to be at the venue early. The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
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In her book "Traumaland", she draws a new topography of Germany, characterized by the traces of the past and the different experiences and realities in the immigration society.

The crimes of the National Socialists still have an impact today - in the form of racist violence, the traumas of minorities and as an ideology. Dardan asks who bears responsibility for this history, which memories are heard and which are suppressed. With her work, she calls for overcoming entrenched memory discourses and creating space for a common remembrance that unites different realities.

Traumaland. A search for traces in the German past and present - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair with:

🐾 Asal Dardan, born in Tehran in 1978, grew up in Cologne, Bonn and Aberdeen. She studied Cultural Studies in Hildesheim and Middle Eastern Studies in Lund and now lives in Berlin. She was awarded the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing for her text "New Years". Her essay collection Betrachtungen einer Barbarin was nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize and the Clemens Brentano Prize. In May 2023, she gave the first Erika Mann Lecture at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Her new book has been published by Rowohlt Verlag.

🐾 Jan Feddersen moderates this taz Talk. He is a taz editor, curator of the taz lab and author of various books, for example on identity politics and the language of the church.

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