Wednesday Talk

It is not easy to remain capable of speaking and perhaps also to develop a new vocabulary in order to analyse, evaluate and, if you like and perhaps even the most important thing, to formulate in a way that creates peace.
The Wednesday Circle meets every month – if possible – to read, discuss and sometimes even watch films. To open up the discourse and reassess it. To get into dialogue with each other and to better understand history(ies).

Recommended reading for 7 February:

Moshe Zimmermann and Moshe Zuckermann, Thinking of Germany… A dialogue in Israel. Neu-Isenburg: Westend Verlag, 2023, 304 pages, ISBN: 978-3864894022

We will focus on these two chapters in particular:

Here and there – how to remember?, p. 136ff

German solidarity – with a democratic Israel, p. 290ff

Anyone wishing to consult the book can do so, for example, in the library of the Fritz Bauer Forum.

Dr Anja N. Stuckenbergeris a cultural anthropologist and pastor. She received her doctorate in Arctic Anthropology in Utrecht in 2005, taught, researched and curated exhibitions at Dartmouth College (NH, USA), studied theology in Germany and Chicago and has been an ordained pastor of the ELCA since 2012, director of the Ev. Stadtakademie Bochum since 2019, synodal representative for environmental protection and for MÖWe and in the pastoral ministry of the English-speaking Christian Congregation Pauluskirche Bochum; since 2023 she has also been pastor of the Protestant parish of Bochum.

PD Dr Irmtrud Wojak is a historian and exhibition curator. She completed her doctorate in history and political science in Bochum, was deputy director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main and habilitated at Leibniz Universität Hannover. She was head of the Historical Department of the International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen 2007/08 and founding director of the „NS Documentation Centre“ Munich 2009-2011. In 2013, she founded the Buxus Stiftung gGmbH with the aim of promoting human rights-oriented action. In 2019, she initiated the Fritz Bauer Forum in Bochum.

Further dates:

6 March 2024, 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
10 April 2024, 4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
8 May 2024, 3.00 – 4.30 p.m.