A MONUMENT UNDER LOCK AND KEY: SEEKING GERMANY'S COLONIAL LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE

摘要

In the eighteenth century, Hamburg was the German city most involved in the transatlantic slave trade; in the nineteenth century it was at the center of German colonial trade. In 2004, Hamburg-based artist Jokinen reinstalled the Wissmann statue in a "representative urban space in the Port of Hamburg" along with photos documenting "the many occasions when the monument had been erected and toppled during the last 100 years" (Jokinen, "Colonial monuments"; figure 2).