NEWS

ACCOMPANYING VOLUME TO THE EXHIBITION


EVENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION

Christoph Safferling, Theresia Bauer, Dorothee Weitbrecht, Christian Kuchler, Paula Santana with Federal Public Prosecutor General Jens Rommel (f.l.t.r.)
WELCOME ADDRESS
Pastor Monika Renninger
Director of the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart
THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION – TAKING STOCK AND LOOKING AHEAD
Dr. Dorothee Weitbrecht
Executive director of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation – International Dialog for Remembrance and Democracy
LECTURE
The ban on the denial of crimes against humanity. National and international aspects of a current and controversial topic.
Dr. Christoph Safferling, LL.M. (LSE)
Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law and International Law with ICLU at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg
Paragraph 130 of the German Criminal Code, „incitement of the people“, prohibits the denial of the Holocaust. More and more countries are discussing the introduction of laws against the denial of genocide and crimes against humanity. In Germany, too, the denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has generally been a punishable offense since 2008 following an EU framework decision. How effective is this legal instrument in curbing extremist tendencies? Is Germany taking on a pioneering role in the criminal prosecution of denial of past acts of violence against peoples and minorities?
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Christoph Safferling
- Theresia Bauer, Director of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (2011-2022)
- Paula Santana, Education Department of the “Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum”
Moderation: Dr. Christian Kuchler, Chair of Didactics of History, University of Augsburg
EXCHANGE AND RECEPTION

6TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION, BOGOTÁ, MARCH 12-13, 2024
With the 6th symposium of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, we offer experts from Latin America and Germany a forum to exchange views on the political, legal, historical, pedagogical and psychological dealing with past experiences of violence. The symposium is dedicated to an interdisciplinary and international exchange on the dynamics in societies that have experienced historical violence. The aim is to analyze weaknesses and strengths in dealing with the past in Germany and Colombia, in Argentina and Chile to identify shared challenges and to lay a foundation for future cooperation in the field of intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to dealing with the experience of violence.
6. SYMPOSIUM OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION, 2024, 12-13 March
German ambassador Martina Klump, Roberto Vidal (president of the JEP), Dorothee Weitbrecht (director Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation)
Thomas Fischer, Fernando Enns, Natalia Barbero, Elke Gryglewski, Dorothee Weitbrecht, María Luisa Ortiz, Stefanie Bock, Daniel Stahl
RECEPTION GERMAN EMBASSY, 2024, MARCH 13