Sep/30/2012 Archived in:
ArmeniaBERLIN — Every Armenian knows (or should know) Komitas Vardapet. He was the great musicologist, musician and composer who literally founded modern classical Armenian music and whose songs, dances and liturgical works play a prominent role in our musical culture. But perhaps fewer people know about the influence of Germany on his work. On September 5 in Berlin, a gathering of scientists, politicians and artists convened to honor Komitas, unveiling a bronze commemorative plaque at the Humboldt University, which was the composer’s alma mater.
Read Further...Tags:Komitas Vardapet, Prof. Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, , Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan, Mesrop Mashtots
Aug/24/2012 Archived in:
Book reviewAug/11/2012 Archived in:
Armenian Genocide“Especially as 2015 approaches, the pressure will increase. Turkey will, as it has done before, react harshly. It will utter threats, but they will remain ineffective.
“Do you know why? It is because the Armenians have gotten a significant part of the world to accept their claims of genocide.”
Who is speaking here?
Read Further...Tags:Mehmet Ali Birand, Hurriyet, Wolfgang Gust, Serdar Dincer, Umit Kardas, CUP
Jun/26/2012 Archived in:
Armenian GenocideOn June 6, two important cultural institutions in Germany signed an agreement that may break new ground in research on the 1915 genocide against the Armenians. The contract signed by University of Potsdam’s Philosophy Department and the Lepsiushaus for enhanced cooperation was anything but a bureaucratic act. If the two partners fully exploit the potential in the deal, they could create the conditions for significantly enhancing genocide studies which would include the Armenian case. The Lepsiushaus (“House of Lepsius”) in Potsdam is a museum and research center located in the former home of Dr. Johannes Lepsius, the renowned theologian and scholar who documented the 1915 Armenian genocide. It was there that Professor Dr. Johann Hafner, Dean of the Philosophy Faculty, and Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Scientific Managing Director of the Lepsius House, held the official signing ceremony.
Read Further...Tags:Lepsiushaus, Institut für Philosophie - Universität Potsdam, Genocide Studies, Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, Dr. Johann Hafner
Apr/30/2012 Archived in:
Armenia | Turkey | GermanyIt is not usually the case that the guest speaker at a commemoration event for the victims of the 1915 genocide against the Armenians is Turkish, at least not in Germany. But in Hamburg, it is becoming somewhat of a tradition, since Toros Sarian first broke the ice two years ago. Sarian, who issues a multilingual online publication
ArmenienInfo.net (HayastanInfo.net), is co-founder of the Initiative for Remembrance of the 1915 Genocide, which organized a gathering in the St. Petri church on April 21st. In recent years, he has invited not only Germans of Turkish origin to speak, but has consciously engaged representatives of other communities. Thus, this year, flanking keynote speaker Cem Özdemir, National Chairman of the Green Party whose family comes from Turkey, was Ali Ertam Toprak, Chairman of the Alevi Community in Germany and Secretary of the Alevi Communities in Europe, and a spokeswoman for the Turkish-Kurdish Initiative for Democratic Rights and Freedom.
Read Further...Tags:ArmenienInfo.net, Toros Sarian, Cem Özdemir, Ali Ertam Toprak, Leman Stehn, H.E. Karekin Bekdjian, Gayane Choir, H.E. Ambassador Armen Martirosyan, Von Grünberg, Cem Özdemir, Hrant Dink, Archimandate Serovpé Isakhanyan, Wolfgang Gust
Apr/20/2012 Archived in:
Strategy | Middle EastIt should come as no surprise that from Germany – the “land of poets and thinkers”—a most powerful message warning of threats to world peace should appear in the guise of a poem. Nor should anyone marvel at the fact that this poem has created a political earthquake. Günter Grass, a famed Nobel Prize writer who is best known for his novel,
The Tin Drum, published a poem on April 4, 2012 in the
Süddeutsche Zeitung warning of an Israeli first strike against Iran and its consequences. The piece, entitled, “What must be said,” provoked a barrage of criticism on one side and just as loud a chorus of applause on the other.
Read Further...Tags:Günther Grass, Reich-Raniki, Frank Schirrmacher, Evelyn Hecht-Galinksi , Ari Avnery, Jakob Augstein, Peter Scholl-Latour, Franziska Augstein, Horst Telschik, Ullrich Pik
