Den Holocaust mit Kunst und Poesie darstellen

Dr. David Hanauer, Professor für Applied Linguistics, Graduate Studies in Composition and Applied Linguistics an der Indiana University of Pennsylvania (USA), wird dann zusammen mit seiner Lebenspartnerin Dafna Rehavia das traumatische Familienerlebnis des Holocaust mit Kunst, Poesie und Darstellung präsentieren.

Der Vortragstitel lautet: Artistic Responses to a Familial Legacy of Deportation and Holocaust. Zum öffentlichen Vortrag und der anschließenden Diskussion sind alle Interessierten eingeladen. Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Der Eintritt ist frei.

Zeit und Ort

Die Veranstaltung findet statt am Mittwoch, 30. Oktober 2019, von 18:00 bis 20:00 Uhr

Ort: Welz-Haus, Klinikstraße 6, Hörsaal, 97070 Würzburg

Zum Inhalt

This creative arts project is a shared collaboration between David Hanauer and Dafna Rehavia at the Welz-Haus and the University of Würzburg in Germany. In this dual residency, David a poetic autoethnographer and Dafna a multimedia visual artist who are life partners, explore using art, poetry and performance a traumatic family legacy with the Holocaust.

The choice of Würzburg for this residency was not arbitrary as the city is the birth place of David’s father and the site of the Holocaust related events for the family. Central among these events are the experiences of the brutal parting of parents and child and forced deportation to a concentration camp.

In a previous visit to the city, David and Dafna participated in a memorial art project for David’s grandparents termed the Stolper Steiner (Stepping Stones) involving the placement of memorial stones with the names of deported and murdered Jewish residents of Würzburg in front of the apartments that they once lived in.

The current dual residency aims to explore ways of both recognizing and memorializing the traumatic events of the past, exploring their relevance to the present and finding ways of healing and continuing to live beyond the horror of these events.