A place of eclectic remembrance: Visiting Luderitz’s Shark Island today

Accepted Paper

Fabian Lehmann (University of Bayreuth)

Paper short abstract

In stark contrast to their sheer number, the concentration camps in German South-West Africa, installed during the German-Namibian War (1904–1908) remain mostly undocumented.

Paper long abstract

In stark contrast to their sheer number, the concentration camps in German South-West Africa, installed during the German-Namibian War (1904–1908) remain mostly undocumented. The development of the town of Luderitz is strongly connected to the war and the Shark Island concentration camp I will discuss Shark Island as a place of remembrance and oblivion and contrast the lack of remembering the island’s past with a recent project by the Namibian visual artist Nicola Brandt.

Panel P133
Towns build around and on concentration camps: The War in German Southwest-Africa and its urban trajectories
Session 1

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