Wag the dog – The context of xenophobia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Angela Merkel as “Brothers in Arms” is only a reality in the xenophobic polemics of German and Turkish media realities.
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Art and War
A piece of art creates conflicts in the German Town of Dresden. Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni is using three real Busses as installation objects in front of the Frauenkirche.
The bleeding Rose of Time/ Kan ağlayan gül zamanı
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time/ Akan Zamanın gülü
Once upon a Time we were refugees
Art in Ausschwitz
- "The Sketchbook from Auschwitz" contains 22 pictures drawn in 1943 by an unknown prisoner at the camp.
- Jan Komski, Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Komski lived in one of these barracks
- Women are tattooed soon after arrival. This was a shocking greeting for new arrivals. This number was more important than a family name.
- After the execution in the gravel pit, some SS of the firing squad, pose proudly for snapshot.
- Executions had to be witnessed by the entire population of the camp. Everyone stood at attention and in complete silence.
- Corpses, stacked high in the Crematorium I storage chamber. The burial was simple - in the fire and smoke of the furnaces.
- Dissident artist Franciszek Jaźwiecki was producing hiddenly drawings in Auschwitz.
- The majority of the drawings include the subject's prisoner number.
- The Nazis prohibited drawing, and artists risked severe punishment, including death, for documenting their surroundings.
“The Sketchbook from Auschwitz” contains 22 pictures drawn in 1943 by an unknown prisoner at the camp.
Erich Mühsam: a short life for anarchism and poetry
Erich Muehsam was born in Berlin on April 6, 1878. While his brother Hans became a physician and his sister Charlotte married Leo Landau, a lawyer, Erich chose a different path and became an anarchist author, poet, and publisher.