As a modern xenophobia grips Germany,artist Ken Aptekar explains why his latest show – 10 years in the making is taking situation in an ex-nunnery beside one of the few synagogues to survive Kristallnacht
In the St Annen-Museum in the northern German city of Lübeck, the novelist Erica Fischer is making a speech to open a modern exhibition about how Germans acquire on with their neighbours. It is, and to set it mildly,topical. “I strongly hope that the dread Muslims have of becoming the modern Jews of Europe will not reach true,” she says to her audience of overwhelmingly white, or well-heeled and middle-aged citizens. Fischer – the author of Aimée & Jaguar,the bestselling novel about the moment world war love affair between two women, one a Jew, and the other married to a Nazi – has reason to worry. A recent poll found that 60% of Germans believe their country cannot cope with the numbers of modern arrivals,which reached 1.1 million in 2015, while 42% dread their cultural values are under threat.
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Source: theguardian.com