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Oct 30, 2020 - So German Team
The German Consulate General in Vancouver was delighted to host a virtual event series with the award-winning author Nora Krug from October 27 to 29, 2020. This blog post features videos from two events from this series. We hope you enjoy them.
“Belonging” - A German Graphic Novelist Reckons with History and Home
Born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, award-winning German graphic artist Nora Krug, married to a Jew and living in New York for over 12 years, feels more German than ever.
In her book “Belonging” (“Heimat”), Nora Krug ponders on what home means to her and “… endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family’s place in it all” (The Boston Globe). Nora Krug returned to Germany, visited archives, conducted research, and interviewed family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier.
In her book Nora Krug sets out on a literary and graphic journey, combining her texts with photographs, archival and flea market finds. “Belonging” is a graphic memory, vivid, true and poetic.
Featuring Nora Krug in conversation with Marsha Lederman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and the Western Art Correspondent of The Globe and Mail, the event explored themes of identity, memory, inherited responsibility and the cultural legacies of war in Krug’s visual memoir, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography.
On October 28, 2020, we had the great pleasure to welcome three award-winning graphic novelists for an Artists’ Roundtable! In this talk, Nora Krug, Miriam Katin and Leela Corman reflect upon how graphic storytelling engages with the history, memory and legacy of the Holocaust and National Socialism. This event was presented by the German Consulate General in Vancouver, in partnership with the Deptartment of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies at UBC and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.
Would you like to read more? Check out our recent interview with Nora Krug here: https://sogerman.ca/story/in-conversation-with-nora-krug/
