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

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:13:48 +0000

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)

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:42:49 +0000

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

Deutschlandradio KULTUR: “So tragisch, so literarisch wie bei Anne Frank”

admin — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 08:35:06 +0000

Deutschlandradio KULTUR provides reference to the publication of Roman Kroke’s artwork “The Spider and its Web – insights into the thinking heart of the Dutch Jew Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)”, Mediel (2012).

Listen to the program

Manuscript of the program

Publication (German/Engl./French)

Lecture: State University of New York – Geneso (US)

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:26:36 +0000

Lecture by Roman Kroke for students of the State University of New York (Geneso) about his artwork on the diaries of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), as part of the study travel “Amsterdam, Berlin and Prague: the Artist in the Third Reich”.

Topic (Etty Hillesum)

Lectures by R. Kroke (Overview)

about the study travel

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

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:09:52 +0000

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, Warsaw(Poland) and Berlin (Germany); topics: individual and collective identity, history and transmission.

Reflection Workshops

about the study travel

PRESS: « Le Républicain » (France)

admin — Sun, 25 May 2014 17:03:24 +0000

Artikel about Roman Kroke’s Workshop “The Camp des Milles – Art and Resistance (Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Ernst, Karl Bodek, etc.)”.

Article

Workshop (Art & Resistance)

Exhibition (Vernissage) : Pilot-Workshop “Art and Resistance – the Camp des Milles (1939-2014)”

admin — Tue, 20 May 2014 08:54:50 +0000

Exposition de l’atelier en coopération avec le collège Charles Péguy de Palaiseau (France),

animé par l’artiste berlinois Roman KROKE

Initiatrice du projet : Madame Claire PODETTI (professeure d’Histoire-Géographie)

Mercredi 21 mai 2014 à 19h (Vernissage)

L’exposition se tiendra jusqu’au vendredi 30 mai 2014.

à la MJC – Théâtre des 3 Vallées de Palaiseau, Parc de l’Hôtel de Ville, avenue du 8 Mai 1945, 91125 PALAISEAU CEDEX

Dans le cadre d’un atelier de deux jours sur le sujet « Le Camp des Milles » les élèves ont créé des œuvres (sculptures, collages, peintures) à partir des biographies des anciens internés/déportés (Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Ernst, Karl Bodek, …).

Photo gallery

Ce projet interdisciplinaire s’est déroulé sur le site de la Batterie de la pointe, un vestige des fortifications du XIXème siècle de Paris.

Distinction: « Prix Ilan Halimi contre les discriminations et l’antisémitisme » by the Conseil général de l’Essonne/France (10.000,-€)

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:50:58 +0000

The interdisciplinary school project of the Collège Charles Péguy (Palaiseau/France) with an interdisciplinary workshop led by Roman Kroke about the topic “Art & Resistance” is rewarded the prize « Prix Ilan Halimi contre les discriminations et l’antisémitisme » by the Conseil général de l’Essonne (France).

Prize : 10.000,-€

P R E S S information (French)

TOPIC of the workshop

After the prize « Le Grand prix Hippocrène de l’éducation à l’Europe » obtained in 2012 – also decorated with a sum of 10.000,-€ – it is the second time that Roman Kroke’s interdisciplinary art-projects have been distinguished with a prestigeous prize in France.

International Etty Hillesum Congress, Ghent University (Belgium)

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:11:50 +0000

On occasion of the Second International Etty Hillesum Congress Roman Kroke was invited to give a lecture about his artwork, amongst others his new illustration in pogress “Puzzle”.

P R O G R A M of the congres

Organized by: Etty Hillesum Research Centre of Ghent University (Belgium)

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

admin — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:05:08 +0000

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).