Engaging Young Black B with the Relevance of The Holocaust

这一知识交流、合作制作和公众宣传方案借鉴了人权委员会主要研究项目“从肇事者到受害者？”“德国战时苦难的话语”（2005-2008）。在这个项目中，Taberner和Cooke建立了一种更细致入微的叙述，讲述了自1945年以来德国面对大屠杀的经历，而不是以前在学术文献中提供的。我们发现了德国人压制过去的愿望（几十年来的强度有所不同）和德国人正视以他们的名义犯下的罪行的努力之间的辩证关系，我们证明了德国人对德国战时苦难（轰炸德国城市、将德国人驱逐出东欧、大规模强奸德国妇女）的辩论，等)与关于该国对大屠杀的历史责任的辩论从来没有区别，但总是隐含在其中，反之亦然。此外，我们还追溯了近年来德国与大屠杀的对抗如何被视为全球其他国家如何应对其他黑暗历史的典范，例如奴隶制、殖民主义、种族隔离、最近的种族灭绝大屠杀（如1994年卢旺达的种族灭绝大屠杀）以及南美洲的独裁统治。我们发现，在这些背景下，德国面对大屠杀的经验是“可用的”，正是因为它（通常甚至是矛盾的）引发了对“承认过去”、道歉、赔偿、恢复以及在理解和谴责之间难以取得平衡等问题的反思。我们的后续影响项目旨在使用从原始研究中获得的刺激材料——德国人被迫面对以他们的名义犯下的罪行的关键时刻的历史图像，以及原始电影——作为一系列四个研讨会的基础，与作家（安东尼·哈登，剧院公司Blah Blah Blah）、RJC舞蹈（英格兰北部领先的黑人舞蹈组织）的导演和舞蹈导师，以及RJC的年轻舞者，他们大多来自黑人背景。在2015年12月和2016年1月的这段知识交流之后，我们将与编剧、导演和舞蹈导师合作，为RJC青年部共同制作一场舞蹈表演。表演将把作为刺激素材的历史影像和电影，以及影像所揭示的与过去的对抗、沉默与否认、接受与弥补等问题，转化为舞蹈表演。本次舞蹈演出将于2015年1月至2016年4月进行为期三个月的排练。4月下旬，它将在利兹大学为当地学校的学生和学生举行两场黄昏演出，第三场演出将在英国国家大屠杀中心举行。来自利兹大学的两名学生实习生也将参与工作坊、创作过程和表演，并将拍摄我们与合作伙伴的互动和表演的亮点。2016年5月，也就是项目的最后一个月，将举办一个后期制作研讨会，并将编辑并发布一部短片，作为不同互动和参与的记录。我们的目标是：1)让新的受众，特别是年轻的黑人，了解大屠杀和德国面对大屠杀的经验；2)根据我们的研究和我们与一个黑人舞蹈组织的合作，制作一个原创的舞蹈表演；3)鼓励黑人观众——以及利兹大学演出和英国国家大屠杀中心的其他不同观众——反思德国面对大屠杀的经验与其他形式偏见的相关性；4)记录我们的工作，为研究人员、教育工作者、教师和感兴趣的组织提供一个可以进一步发展的模型。

This programme of knowledge exchange, co-production, and public outreach draws on the findings of the AHRC major research project 'From Perpetrators to Victims? Discourses of German Wartime Suffering' (2005-2008). In that project, Taberner and Cooke established a more nuanced narrative of the German experience of confronting the Holocaust since 1945 than had previously been available in the scholarly literature. We identified a dialectic between Germans' desire -- varying in intensity over the decades -- to repress the past and Germans' efforts to face up to the crimes that had been committed in their name, and we evidenced the way in which German debates on German wartime suffering (the bombing of German cities, the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, the mass rapes of German women, etc.) were never distinct from debates on the country's historical responsibility for the Holocaust but were always implicit within them, and vice versa. Further to this, we traced the way in which the German confrontation with the Holocaust has in recent years come to be seen as a model for how other nations, globally, can confront other dark pasts, for example, slavery, colonialism, apartheid, recent genocidal massacres such as Rwanda in 1994, and dictatorship in South America. We discovered that the German experience of confronting the Holocaust is 'usable' in these contexts precisely because it (often even ambivalently) provokes reflection on issues of 'owning up to the past', apology, reparation, restitution, and the difficult balance to be struck between understanding and condemnation.Our follow-on impact project aims to use stimulus materials drawn from the original research -- historical images of key moments when Germans were forced to confront the crimes committed in their name, and original films -- as the basis for a series of four workshops with a writer (Anthony Haddon, of the Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah), the director and dance tutor at RJC Dance (the leading Black dance organisation in the North of England), and RJC's young dancers, who mostly come from a Black background. Following this period of knowledge exchange in December 2015 and January 2016, we will work with the writer, director and dance tutor to co-produce a dance performance for the RJC's Youth Division. The performance will translate the historical images and films used as stimulus materials -- and the issues of confrontation with the past, silence and denial, acceptance and reparation that the images reveal -- into a dance performance. This dance performance will be rehearsed over three months from January 2015 to April 2016. It will then be staged at the University of Leeds in late April at two twilight performances for students and pupils from local schools, with a third performance at The UK National Holocaust Centre. Two student interns from the University of Leeds will also be involved in the workshops, creative process, and performances, and highlights of our engagement with partners and of the performances will be filmed. In May 2016, the final month of the project, a post-production workshop will take place and a short film will be edited and released as a record of the different interactions and engagements that have taken place.Our aims are: 1) to engage new audiences, and young Black people in particular, with the Holocaust and the German experience of confronting the Holocaust; 2) to produce an original piece of dance performance based on our research and our collaboration with a Black dance organisation; 3) to encourage Black audiences -- but also other diverse audiences at the University of Leeds performances and at the UK National Holocaust Centre -- to reflect on the relevance of the German experience of confronting the Holocaust for other forms of prejudice; 4) to record our work, to provide researchers, educationalists and teachers, and interested organisations with a model that can be developed further.