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Flowers for Otello - On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena (Hardcover)
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Flowers for Otello - On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena (Hardcover)
Series: The German List
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A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of
anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany. Between 1998 and
2007 a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully styled "doner
murders" by the media, were attributed by German police to
internecine rivalries among immigrants. The victims included eight
citizens of Turkish origin, a Greek citizen, and a German
policewoman. Not until 2011 did the German public learn not only
that the police had ignored signs pointing to the real
perpetrators, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist
Underground, but also that important files, possibly containing
evidence implicating state agencies, had disappeared from the
archives of Federal Police and intelligence organizations. Esther
Dischereit, one of the preeminent German-Jewish voices of the
post-Holocaust generation, takes that failure of the state to
protect its citizens from racist violence as the core of her
performance text Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of
Jena. Seeking an appropriate language with which to meet the
bereaved, she also finds a way to raise the blanket of silence that
is used by those who would prefer that we forget. Combining witness
testimony, myth, and incidents from a history of violence against
minorities, Flowers for Otello, in Iain Galbraith's translation,
refuses chaos, instead revealing the chilling, patterned order of
tragedy while bringing a great writer's humanism to the fore.
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