Engaging Young Black B with the Relevance of The Holocaust

这一知识交流、联合制作和公众宣传方案借鉴了AHRC重大研究项目“从肇事者到受害者--关于德国战时苦难的论述”(2005-2008)的成果。在这个项目中，塔伯纳和库克对德国自1945年以来对抗大屠杀的经历进行了更加细致入微的叙述，而不是以前的学术文献。我们确定了德国人压制过去的愿望和德国人努力面对以他们的名义犯下的罪行之间的辩证关系--几十年来德国人的愿望不同，我们证明了德国人关于德国战时苦难(轰炸德国城市、将德裔人驱逐出东欧、大规模强奸德国妇女等)的辩论方式。与关于该国对大屠杀负有历史责任的辩论从来没有区别，但总是隐含在辩论中，反之亦然。此外，我们追踪了近年来德国与大屠杀的对抗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年的卢旺达和南美的独裁统治。我们发现，德国对抗大屠杀的经验在这些背景下是“有用的”，因为它(通常甚至是矛盾的)引发了对“承认过去”、道歉、赔偿、恢复原状以及理解和谴责之间难以取得平衡的问题的思考。我们的后续影响项目旨在使用来自原始研究的刺激材料--德国人被迫以他们的名义面对罪行的关键时刻的历史图像，以及原创电影--作为与一位作家(Blah Blah Blah戏剧公司的Anthony Haddon)举行的一系列四个研讨会的基础。RJC Dance(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。继2015年12月和2016年1月的这段知识交流期后，我们将与编剧、导演和舞蹈导师合作，为RJC的青年部制作一场舞蹈表演。表演将把作为刺激材料的历史图像和电影--以及图像所揭示的与过去的对抗、沉默和否认、接受和补偿--转化为舞蹈表演。这场舞蹈表演将于2015年1月至2016年4月进行为期三个月的排练。然后，它将于4月下旬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研讨会、创意过程和表演，我们与合作伙伴的互动和表演的亮点将被拍摄下来。在2016年5月，也就是该项目的最后一个月，将举行一个后期制作研讨会，并将编辑和发布一段短片，以记录已经发生的不同的互动和参与。我们的目标是：1)吸引新的观众，特别是年轻的黑人，接触大屠杀和德国对抗大屠杀的经验；2)基于我们的研究和我们与黑人舞蹈组织的合作，制作一段原创舞蹈表演；3)鼓励黑人观众--以及利兹大学表演和英国国家大屠杀中心的其他不同观众--反思德国对抗其他形式的偏见的大屠杀经验的现实意义；4)记录我们的工作，为研究人员、教育工作者和教师以及感兴趣的组织提供一个可以进一步发展的模式。

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.