Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena Dischereit Esther
Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena Dischereit Esther A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany.Between 1998 and…
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Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena Dischereit Esther
A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany.Between 1998 and 2007 a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully styled "doner murders" by the media, were attributed by German police to internecine rivalries among immigrants. Not until 2011 did the German public learn not only that the police had ignored signs pointing to the real perpetrators, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Underground, but also that important files, possibly containing evidence implicating state agencies, had disappeared from the archives of Federal Police and intelligence organizations.Esther Dischereit, one of the preeminent German-Jewish voices of the post-Holocaust generation, takes that failure of the state to protect its The victims included eight citizens of Turkish origin, a Greek citizen, and a German policewoman.