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Center for Political Beauty: Artists apologize for memorial installation

2019-12-04T16:41:20.935Z


An installation in which ashes have been processed by Holocaust victims: Since Monday, a ZPS action had led to controversy. Now the artists apologize.



"We are sorry!" can be read in large letters on the homepage of the Center for Political Beauty (ZPS). There follows a detailed opinion. "We sincerely regret that we have not recognized the central impact of our work in advance," is among other things to read.

Thus react the activists around the founder Philipp Ruch on the sometimes violent criticism that they had encountered after the installation of an installation on Monday not far from the Reich in Berlin. According to ZPS, the artists said that the aim of the campaign was to warn of ashes of Holocaust victims.

Subsequently, the group was accused, among other things, of impiety and instrumentalization of the victims - partly because the Jewish religious law prohibits cremation and provides for a corpse to be respectfully treated and completely buried. This runs counter to the action, so a frequent criticism.

In the statement, the artists now write that they expected to stir up people's feelings. "Nevertheless, nothing was further from hurting the religious and ethical sentiments of the survivors and descendants of the dead, and we sincerely ask for pardons from those affected, relatives and survivors that we have hurt in their feelings."

The collective of artists announced that they would conceal the centerpiece of the column, "to counter the impression of 'display'. Also the also heavily criticized crowdfunding site for the action will be turned off, announced a Saturday action has been canceled.

At the same time, the ZPS again explained his concern. "We want to point out the responsibility of posterity to declare, mark and protect the identified mass graves at least as such." The activists also pointed to the special responsibility of the Federal Republic of Germany to financially support the existing memorial sites at home and abroad, "so that they can fulfill their task of remembering and admonishing to the best of their ability."

The Center for Political Beauty has attracted attention over the past few years with actions that sparked discussion. For example, about two years ago, it had set up a replica of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial in the neighborhood of the residential building of AfD politician Björn Höcke in Thuringia.

Source: spiegel

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