Press Releases from Harvard Center for European Studies in Berlin, CES Berlin Dialogues (1 total)
Germans, Indians and the Wild West - Panel Discussion on February 4
Monday, February 4, 2008, 18.00-20.00, Reception begins at 17.30
Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
SESSION
This session focuses on the many layers of symbolic meanings that Indians, the "WildWest", and the Winnetou novels of Karl May hold for so many generations ofGermans. The discussion focuses on the idealization of nature and the pre-modernlifestyle of the American Indians, race fascination, the tension between modernity andthe freedom of life at the…
