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FILM: “Living Memorials — when art meets our culture of remembrance” (RTBF)

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Belgium’s first public TV channel RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge Francophone) broadcasts the movie “”Living Memorials — quand l’art rencontre la mémoire” (date: 30 January 2022). The movie documents the international project LIVING MEMORIALS, in which Roman Kroke, in his role as the project’s artistic and pedagogic coordinator, has led interdisciplinary art-workshops in the middle of the primary Naliboki forest (Belarus) and at the historic site of the Wannsee Conference (Berlin/Germany).

The film is available via free online-streaming on the project website in an English, German and French version:

Homepage LIVING MEMORIALS

Film (streaming)

WORKSHOP: “LIVING MEMORIALS”, Naliboki Forest (Belarus)

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In his role as the pedagogic and artistic coordinator of the international project LIVING MEMORIALS, Roman Kroke travelled to Belarus where he gave lectures and led an interdisciplinary workshop in the middle of the primary Naliboki Forest. Participants: Teachers, students, researchers, historians, artists. Topic: The history of the Jewish Bielski Partisans whose story received worldwide attention through Edward Zwick’s movie Defiance (2008), with James Bond 007 actor Daniel Craig portraying the Jewish partisan commander Tuvia Bielski.

The project was funded by the EVZ Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany as part of the program YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER.

Documentation of the Artworks

Exhibition “The Spider and its Web” by Roman Kroke, Palais des Rois de Majorque, Perpignan (France)

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Exhibition of Roman Kroke’s artwork about the diaries of the Dutch Jew Etty Hillesum (1914-1943).

Location: Le Palais des Rois de Majorque, Perpgnan (France)

Organized by: L’Inspection Académique Pyrénées-Orientales, le Conseil Général Pyrénées-Orientales, le Consule honoraire de la République fédérale d’Allemagne Perpignan, les Services de l’Éducation Nationale and la Commission Catalanité et Patrimoine.

A R T W O R K

The exhibiition will be supplemented by a 2-day teacher training by Roman Kroke about the artistique workshop concepts which he is leading throughout Europe. Topics: Etty Hillesum, the Bielski Brothers, the White Rose Resistance Movement (Hans & Sophie Scholl), The Vel d’Hiv Roundup, the Berlin Wall, Friedrich Spee (Medieval witch hunts & today’s cybermobbing). Associated schools: Lycée Aristide Maillol (Perpignan), Collège Marcel Pagnol (Perpignan), Collège Joseph Calvet (Saint Paul de Fenouillet), Collège Irène Joliot Curie (Estagel).

W O R K S H O P S

Special thanks for the organisation to: Mrs. Dr. Madeleine Claus (teacher, Lycée Aristide Maillol); Mrs. Quéti Otéro (principal, Collège Marcel Pagnol); Mrs. Sonia Serradeil (teacher, Lycée Aristide Maillol); Mr. Laurent Coll (Conseil Général des Pyrénées Orientales).

International Faculty Development Seminar “Ruin and Revival: History, Modern Memory, and Identity”, Cracow/Auschwitz (Poland), Berlin (Germany)

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Customized “Reflection”-Workshop for a group of US-american University & College professors as part of an international study trip organized by the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) in Cracow(Poland) and Berlin (Germany); topics: individual and collective identity, history and transmission.

PRESS: « Le cartable de Clio – Revue suisse sur les didactiques de l’histoire » (Switzerland)

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Interview with Roman Kroke about his artwork

Adolf-Reichwein Association – Museum of European Cultures, Berlin (Germany)

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Lecture: Art as a medium of interdisciplinary learning & teaching

Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Berlin (Germany) & United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA)

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Lecture as part of the Berlin Summer Academy “ The Holocaust & Present-day Jewish Life in Germany“

PRESS: „Comics über den Holocaust”, INFO-Radio (Germany)

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Report on Roman Kroke’s art-projects

“The School Without Walls”, Washington D.C. (United States of America)

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Lecture: ART as a medium for interdisciplinary learning & teaching

PRESS: „Verbindungslinien inmitten der Vielfalt“, Clique (Germany)

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Article about Roman Kroke’s artwork