2024-02-11 17:40:16
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100-hour Hannah Arendt reading canceled after pro-Palestinian protest
After pro-Palestinian protests, the 100-hour performance reading of a text by the Jewish journalist Hannah Arendt in the Berlin art museum “Hamburger Bahnhof” was canceled. Now the police are investigating.
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A Cuban artist had to cancel her reading in the “Hamburger Bahnhof” museum in Berlin due to hateful tirades from 20 people. In her 100-hour performance, she reads from a book by the Jewish journalist Hannah Arendt. Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth condemns the attack.
After pro-Palestinian protests, a reading by the Jewish journalist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) in the Berlin museum “Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Moderne” had to be canceled. The reading was about Arendt’s comprehensive analysis of totalitarian structures in her book “Elements and Origins of Total Domination”.
According to the two museum directors Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the 100-hour performance “Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading “The Origins of Totalitarianism”)” by the Cuban artist Tania Brugueras was disrupted twice by a group of political activists on Saturday .
Bruguera had to realize the performance at home under arrest in 2015. With the performance in Berlin she wanted to “show the power of art and activism”.
Hate speech at lecture
Initially, hate speeches were held in the afternoon. In the second incident in the evening, around 20 people reportedly returned and insulted one of the readers and one of the museum directors with hateful tirades. Under these circumstances, the open dialogue that was intended with this performance was no longer possible, the directors said. On Sunday morning, the artist decided to end the performance to defend herself against hate speech and all forms of violence.
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“We respect and fully support the artist’s decision and categorically reject any form of hate speech and violence,” said Bardaouil and Fellrath on their Instagram channels. The step was necessary to protect the safety of the participants in the performance.
Roth: “Hate, anti-Semitism and racism have no place in art or anywhere else”
Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth condemned the attack. “Hate, anti-Semitism, racism and such forms of violence are absolutely unacceptable and have no place in the space of art or anywhere else,” said the Green politician in a reaction. “This evil anti-Semitism and racism was obviously directed directly against a Jewish cultural worker, the Cuban artist and a director of the Hamburg train station.” Roth welcomed constitutional consequences for the authors. According to police, a report had previously been received on Sunday.
The Jewish woman Hannah Arendt had to emigrate from Nazi Germany in 1933. She wrote her analysis of the origins and development of National Socialism shortly after the end of World War II and the liberation of Germany. A few years later she supplemented the work with the peculiarities of Stalinism.
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