Voices Mag

The German "Indianthusiasm" is a phenomenon playing out in the space between wanderlust, political solidarity, exoticism, a thirst for adventure and cultural appropriation. We spoke to the indigenous professor Renae Watchman and the Indianist Sigfired Jahn about the German hobbyism.

From March to May of 2024 four Live Speakers from the Grassi Museum of Ethnography have investigated the connection between the museum of ethnology and the community in the past and present. They have developed works of art reflecting their own actions as Live Speakers at the museum.

Professor of Literature Roland Berbig finds a cloth decorated with Henna in the GRASSI museum. In his occupation with its label he encounters the 99 names of Allah and eventually the search for the 100th. That this quest has to do with labels is clear, but it is not written on the cloth. So where does protection come in?

What is to be protected is regulated by law in the state system. One person who knows this particularly well is professor and lawyer Edi Class, who explains in his text how law and protection are related to each other.