With the Interdisciplinary Memory Project „Checkpoint Peace“, the Berlin-based Ukrainian association Vitsche has expiored the roots of misguided German conceptions of „peace“. The project included art actions, performances, political rallies as well as the publication of four (English-language) essays on the subject. The text I contributed deals with the background of...
Germany´s mythical image of Russia: Fear and Fascination
Eastern European and Transatlantic allies are strongly irritated by Germany´s restraint and passivity facing Russian aggression against Ukraine. This peculiar German behaviour can´t exclusively be explained by current political and economical considerations. As I have outlined last year in my essay „Deutsche Russland-Sehnsucht: Faszination und Furcht“, the ambiguos attitude towards...