FILM
Holocaust Images in Cinema: Remembrance and Cliché
From camp fences to deportation trains: cinema has established motifs that support remembrance – but can also obscure historical complexity.
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Culture of remembrance
6 articles from all sections, newest first.
PREVIEW
Sophie Calle and the Museum as a Site of Memory
To mark Hamburger Bahnhof’s 30th anniversary, Sophie Calle turns her attention to the history of the museum and Berlin. Her exhibition combines photographs, texts and found objects with a new work for the collection.
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VISUAL ARTS
Sophie Calle: Who remembers for the museum?
Vanished GDR symbols, an abandoned hotel and a new gift: Sophie Calle encounters a museum’s politics of memory.
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Against the finished story
Not every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
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LITERATURE
Shida Bazyar and the gaps in village history
An invented place, a suppressed past: Shida Bazyar’s novel asks what home conceals and what literature can bring to light.
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LITERATURE
Barbara Yelin draws the gaps in memory
From ‘Irmina’ to Emmie Arbel: the comics artist explores how personal memory and history come together in images.
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