Traumaland - Lesung mit Asal Dardan

In Traumaland, Asal Dardan creates a new topography of Germany, searching for traces, showing parallel and contrasting experiences in the immigration society. The past protrudes painfully into our present, the Nazi crimes find a cruel echo today in racist acts of violence, but also in the traumatic experiences of minorities.

Who makes German history? Who bears responsibility for past guilt? Which memories are told, which remain unheard? Asal Dardan confronts entrenched memory discourses with her search for connections in the hope of a shared memory in which different realities find a place. Asal Dardan reads from her book Traumaland: Eine Spurensuche in deutscher Vergangenheit und Gegenwart and talks about it with Mirjam Zadoff.

Asal Dardan, born in 1978, studied cultural studies and Middle Eastern studies in Germany and Sweden. She has received several awards for her essays. They deal with topics such as origin, exclusion, racism and right-wing extremist violence.

The event is part of the program accompanying the installation overexposed/underexposed and the anniversary program of the NS-Dokumentationszentrum.