Wissmann statue, Hamburg

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

There were considerations to place the Wissmann statue inside the highly 
controversial Tansania-Park in Hamburg-Jenfeld on the former area of the 
Lettow-Vorbeck barracks, but so far this hasn't happened. These days the 
Wissmann statue is stored up in the observatory in Bergedorf:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansania-Park

There's also the Antikolonialdenkmal in Bremen. Originally a monument to 
glorify colonialism - it was established in 1932 - it became redefined 
as an anti-colonialism monument in 1989. Since 2009 a special circle 
with stones from the Namibian Omaheke desert, where the Hereros died of 
thirst,  reminds the visitors of the genocide in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 
(scroll down for the picture):

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikolonialdenkmal_%28Bremen%29

"This is only 1 per cent of six million, but still pretty good." 
(Mondaugen's story, II)

On 13.11.2012 10:46, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the response. When I was there the statue was in front of 
> the Afrikahaus (how appropriate!) but I haven't been there in some 
> time. More's the pity as I do like Hamburg.
> And I'm sure Kai knows more about this.
>
> ciao
> mc otis
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Ruth Flatscher <ruflatsch at gmail.com>
> *To:* Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
> *Cc:* Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>; 
> "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 12, 2012 11:09 PM
> *Subject:* Wissmann statue, Hamburg
>
> hallo mc,
> you mean the Hermann von Wissman statue in Hamburg, which used to 
> stand in front of the university and was re-erected some years ago 
> near the harbour entrance, in the course of an arts/cultural project? 
> it seems to have been removed again after 2 years, and I could not 
> find out where it has ended up, perhaps Kai might know :)
> it has been controversially discussed for glorifying colonial myths 
> and racist/chauvinist points of view.
> http://www.afrika-hamburg.de/english.html
> cheers,
> R
>
>
> On 12 November 2012 22:41, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es 
> <mailto:macissell at yahoo.es>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Dear Kai,
>
>     One of the great things about the P-list is that users can post
>     their reader experience and their reflections upon it, this
>     provides a corpus of material for qualitative research.
>
>     Thanks for giving your take on things, Kai, it is concise and
>     deep. I think I would also take VL over IV (perhaps just because
>     it's longer), but I do like the music in IV.
>
>     ciao
>     mc otis
>
>     ps Have you ever posted a picture of that Herrero statue there in
>     Hamburg (in front of a building though I forget where)? I bet a
>     lot of folks here know nothing about it.
>
>


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