{"id":25397,"date":"2025-06-01T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.otte1.org\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:01:02","slug":"colonial-worlds-photo-presentation-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/news\/colonial-worlds-photo-presentation-and-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Worlds \u2013 Photo Presentation and Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, 7 June 2025 at 12:30 p.m., Rainer Beuthel will provide further insights into the German colonial era after the market.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Until 1918, the German Empire ruled over its colony of German East Africa. To this day, its history remains largely a blind spot in the public consciousness in this country.
\nThe extremely brutal suppression of the great uprising of the African population (\u2018Maji Maji War\u2019) between 1905 and 1907 by the German \u2018Schutztruppe\u2019 with its 250,000 to 300,000 deaths is still not recognised as genocide by the official authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany \u2013 in contrast to the massacre of the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa (approx. 80,000 victims). The high number of victims was not only the result of direct combat, but also of a \u2018scorched earth\u2019 strategy designed to deprive the people living in the rebel area of any food supply.<\/p>\n

\"\"The image archive of the German Colonial Society comprises tens of thousands of photos from the colonial era, taken by colonial officials, officers, plantation owners or missionaries, mostly on glass plates, which were common at the time. It is freely accessible in digital form on the Internet. At the beginning of the event, a small selection from German East Africa will be shown.<\/p>\n

Rainer Beuthel will then read passages from his novel Ackerstra\u00dfenmord (Murder on the Farm Road), published in 2014: At the beginning of 1907, the body of a nobleman and officer in the colonial army is found in a Berlin cellar. The solution to the case leads to the colonial war, which is just coming to an end…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, 7 June 2025 at 12:30 p.m., Rainer Beuthel will provide further insights into the German colonial era after the market. Until 1918, the German Empire ruled over its colony of German East Africa. To this day, its history remains largely a blind spot in the public consciousness in this country. The extremely brutal","protected":false},"author":3832,"featured_media":25389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post post-type-post post-view- post-scope-","status-publish","post-format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","clear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25399,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions\/25399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otte1.staging.computerlie.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}