Die Schatten und Geister bleiben

In the organizer's words:

Interview with the archaeologist and historian Anastasios Papadopoulos from Thessaloniki

The cityscape and population structure of Thessaloniki have changed fundamentally since the early 20th century. Synagogues, mosques, minarets and the cemetery have been destroyed completely or with a few exceptions. The centuries-old Jewish and Ottoman history of the city, which has belonged to Greece since 1912, is no longer visible. The historian Mark Mazower called his highly acclaimed book "Salonica - City of Ghosts. Christians, Muslims, and Jews 1430-1950"; the German-Turkish author Emine Sevgi Özdamar calls her novel about the lives extinguished by the Nazis and earlier in the Greek-Turkish conflicts and wars "A space bounded by shadows". The questions about shadows and ghosts remain present.

In conversation with Anastasios Papadopoulos, Margret Hoppe and Karoline Mueller-Stahl will discuss such questions. It's about remembrance, remembering and repression. What ground are we actually standing on? What can stones tell us? Why is the memory of a city necessary for its present and future?

This event is part of the supporting program of the exhibition "Margret Hoppe & Karoline Mueller-Stahl: The Memory of Stones - Traces of Jewish History and German Occupation in Thessaloniki" (until 8 August 2026).

Price information:

6 €, reduced 3 €