he Glossary of Cultural Practices of Reparation is now available online in the media library on the CURE website: in the first three entries, CURE director Christiane Solte-Gresser and the research programme directors Laurens Schlicht and Hannah Steurer explore dreams as a reparative practice, Theodor Adorno’s approach to coming to terms with the past, and the notion of new beginnings.
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Film recommendation: “The Srebrenica Tape – Messages of Love from the War”
On 11 July 2025, it will be thirty years since the genocide of Srebrenica. his year, for the first time, the painful event has been commemorated with a global day of remembrance. In this context, we would like to recommend the documentary The Srebrenica Tape – Messages of Love from the War by Chiara Sambuchi.
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Reparation in an Era of Irreparability?
Looking back at the first annual conference of the Käte Hamburger Centre CUREThe centre’s first annual conference was held from 4 to 6 June 2025, focused on this year’s theme, “theory”. In their contributions, keynote speaker Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Delhi) and the other presenters examined the theoretical foundations of cultural practices of reparation. Which media, paradigms or concepts allow us to describe these practices? How might they change our many ways of relating to the past, and how might they contribute to new ways of living together in the future?
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Christiane Solte-Gresser re-elected chair of the German Society for General and Comparative Literary Studies
At the 20th annual conference of the German Society for General and Comparative Literary Studies, Prof Dr Christiane Solte-Gresser, co-director of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, was re-elected as chair.
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The catalogue for the exhibition THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA has been published
The catalogue for The True Size of Africa, the exhibition running until 17 August 2025 at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, is now available. Edited by Christiane Solte-Gresser and Markus Messling, directors of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), together with Ralf Beil, general director of the Völklinger Hütte, it is published by Hirmer Verlag (Munich).
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Un couple panafricain: Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée
New publication by CURE alumna Elara Bertho:
At the heart of this project, made possible by the CURE Fellowship in 2024, lies the idea of reparation – traced through the exile of Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Conakry.
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One year of the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE
Over the past twelve months, across a wide range of events and programmes, fellows and the centre’s team have explored, how culture might help shape the future in a world that has suffered irreparable damage.
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Artist-in-residence at the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE: An interview with Kossi Efoui
On 18 February, Kossi Efoui was a guest on the radio programme Literatur im Gespräch, broadcast on SR Kultur, where he discussed his autobiographical novel Une magie ordinaire (Seuil 2023). You can listen to the full interview on the ARD audio library.
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Grand Opening of the Käte Hamburger Centre
The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) was officially launched on Friday 8 November 2024, together with the opening for a new exhibition at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte. The centre, a flagship research institute at Saarland University supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), focuses on creating a transmedial framework for understanding processes of cultural reparation.