Michael Falser, DFG-Heisenberg-Fellow und Projektleiter am Lehrstuhl für Theorie und Geschichte von Architektur, Kunst und Design, TU München
FRIDAY, 3 November 2023
8:00 Registration
9:00 Opening and Welcome
Tino MAGER, President ICOMOS Germany
H.E. Hassan Iddi MWAMWETA, Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania in the Federal Republic of Germany
9:30 Introduction to the Conference
Michael FALSER (TU Munich/Germany)
10:00 SESSION I: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AND COOPERATIONS – INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
Chair: Gabriele HORN (Shared Built Heritage/ICOMOS Germany, SPSG)
Colonial Buildings in Tanzania: A Point of View from a German-Tanzanian Expert Mission (2018) about Status, Preservation Options and Future
Ralph EGERMANN (Büro für Baukonstruktionen, Karlsruhe/Germany) & Prisca KIRWAY (Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Dodoma/Tanzania)
Collaborative Approaches to the (Built) ‘Shared Heritage’ of German Colonialism in Africa (Volta/Ghana and Pangani/Tanzania)
Jörg LINSTÄDTER & Cornelia KLEINITZ (German Archaeological Institute, KAAK, Bonn/Germany)
From Building Archaeology to Conservation Management of German Colonial Architectural Heritage in Cameroon
Martin ELOUGA & SALAMATOU (University of Yaoundé/Cameroon)
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 SESSION II: MAPPING, INVENTORY, EVALUATION
Chair: Claus-Peter ECHTER (Shared Built Heritage/ICOMOS Germany)
Documenting and Promoting German Colonial Buildings in Togo
Aka Adjo BEBEWOU & Komla HATO (University of Lomé/Togo)
German Colonial Architecture between Germany and Cameroon – Postcolonial Appropriation in a Decolonial Age
Richard TSOGANG FOSSI & Champolion MIACHE EVINA (TU Berlin/Germany, University of Yaoundé/Cameroon)
Interdisciplinary Approaches of Decolonization: Source Editing, Visual History and Exhibitions about the Early History of Tsingtau/Qingdao (China)
ZHU Yijie (Qingdao University/China)
Archaeological Perspectives on German Colonial Built Heritage in the Pacific – A Case Study on Apia/Samoa
Christian REEPMEYER (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin/Germany)
13:30 Lunch Break
14:30 SESSION III: HISTORIC PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, APPROPRIATION
Chair: Richard TSOGANG FOSSI (TU Berlin/Germany)
The International Settlement of Tientsin and the German Concession (1895-1917) – From History to Heritage
WANG Ruoran & XU Subin (Tianjin University, Tianjin/China)
German Fortresses in Northern Cameroon: Preserving Physical Remains and Memories of an Ultimate Resistance Against the Allies until 1916 ?
Narcisse Santores TCHANDEU (University of Yaoundé/Cameroon)
From Construction Material Research to Renovation: The German Architecture of Catholic Churches in Southern Tanzania
Nancy RUSHOHORA & Valence SILAYO (University of Dar es Salaam/Tanzania)
Historic Preservation of German Colonial Heritage in Tanga/Tanzania – the Work of the Tanga Heritage Centre (URITHI)
Joel NIGANILE & Mohamed MAJURA (The Tanga Heritage Centre – URITHI, Tanga/Tanzania)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Session IV: USE, TOURISM, COMMODIFICATION
Chair: Sarah HEGENBART (TU Munich/Germany)
Appropriation and Politics of German Colonial Heritage in Namibia: Alte Feste and Tintenpalast in Windhoek
Walter PETERS (University of the Free State/South Africa) & Jens WIEDOW (Namibian University of Science and Technology, Windhoek/Namibia)
The Gunzert House in Mwanza and the Iringa Boma Museum: Two German Colonial Building Sites in Tanzania Adapted for Contemporary Culture and Education
Delphine KESSY (St. Augustine University/Tanzania) & Jan KUEVER (University of Iringa/Tanzania)
The Harbour of Swakopmund/Namibia: Selling German Colonial Nostalgia in a Seaside Resort?
Martin KALB (Bridgewater College, Bridgewater/USA)
The Palais de Lomé (Togo): From a German Colonial Palace to an Art and Culture Center to Preserve Biodiversity and Celebrate Africa and its Diasporas
Sonia LAWSON (Palais de Lomé, Lomé/Togo)
18:00 End of the first Conference Day – Get-Together
SATURDAY, 4 November 2023
10:00 SESSION V: COLONIAL MONUMENTS AND SITES OF MEMORY
Chair: Narcisse Santores TCHANDEU (University of Yaoundé/Cameroon)
An Architectural Irony – The Mau Bandstand of Samoa
Lama TONE (University of Auckland/New Zealand)
The German Colonial School in Witzenhausen – A Controversial Crystallization Site of Different Memories and Memory Cultures
Marion HULVERSCHEIDT (University of Kassel/Germany)
Virtual Interference with Monuments. Augmented Reality, Colonial Heritage and the Example of the Kolonialkriegerdenkmal, Düsseldorf
Jens FEHRENBACHER (Ruhr University Bochum/Germany)
DECOLONIZE MÜNCHEN (2013) – Revisited: Opening and Diversification of Sites, Buildings and Spaces
Sarah BERGH (Dept. of Civic Education, Munich/Germany) & Modupe LAJA (Eine Welt Haus, Munich/Germany)
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Session VI: DECOLONIAL COMMENTS AND ART INSTALLATIONS
Chair: Sarah BERGH (Dept. of Civic Education, Munich/Germany)
Between Demolition and Artistic Adaptation? The Afterlives of German Colonial Monuments in Africa and Germany
Joachim ZELLER (Berlin/Germany)
Colonialism and the Extraction of Landscapes – The Copper Mine in Tsumeb (Namibia) in Otobong Nkanga’s art installations (2015)
Sarah HEGENBART (TU Munich/Germany)
Confrontations: Lara Favaretto at “Skulpturenprojekte” Münster 2017 and the Train Monument (1925)
Christian BERGER (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz/Germany)
Bird’s Perspective – a Decolonial Gaze. Public Space Action in Cologne (2021)
Roberto URIBE-CASTRO (Berlin/Germany)
13:30 WRAP-UP DISCUSSION
Chairs: Tino MAGER (ICOMOS Germany) & Michael FALSER (TU Munich/Germany)
14:00 End of Conference