Why and how societies remember is the basic topic of this theme day. History is always analysed from a modern-day perspective. However, in order to master the present and the future, it often requires the instrumentalisation of the past. The way commemorative cultures change indicates that each generation asks new questions about the past and that history is always being written and re-written. The question of how this is represented from an artistic point of view or how artists deal ‹with this› is a theme that runs through the entire programme of this year's CULTURESCAPES festival.
12.00 h: Introductory lecture, with subsequent discussion
Dr. Tanja Zimmermann (Junior Professor for Slavic literature and general linguistics), Konstanz: ‹In the nation's service: Excesses of remembering, excesses of forgetting›
How do we remember and how do we forget? Specific examples are used to explain the difference and cross-linking of various memory models, e.g. the activation of the Kosovo myth and other national myths since 1989 as well as the suppression of all remembrance of the common partisan campaign.
13.00 h: Podium, every 20 min., with subsequent discussion. Moderation: Andreas Ernst (Journalist)
Tanja Petovar, CZKD (http://www.czkd.org), Belgrade: ‹Legal› aspects of transition and countries in transition - when does what apply and how is this accepted by society
Svjetlan Lacko Vidulic (professor for German literature), University of Zagreb: ‹Wild heritage. Family conscience in a post-Yugoslavian context›
14.00 h: Break. Film sequences from ‹whose song is this› will be shown.
15.00 h: Film lecture incl. an interview with Mila Turajlić (Director) about ‹Cinema Comunista›
16.30 h: Artist discussion / Author discussion: Miljenko Jergovic (Author), Adela Jušić (Fine Artist), Mats Staub (Dramatic adviser, Artist) and actor of Oliver Frjlićs ‹I hate the truth› (Rakan Rushaidat)
Moderation: Anja Dirks (Künstlerische Leiterin Festival Theaterformen Hannover/Braunschweig)
18.00 h: Break
Entrance free
19.00 h: Oliver Frjlić ‹I hate the truth›
