Focusing on the future: Evoking memories of German hunger on World Food Day

TY - UNPB

T1 - Focusing on the future

T2 - Evoking memories of German hunger on World Food Day

AU - van Mourik, Anne

PY - 2021/10/21

Y1 - 2021/10/21

N2 - On 16 October 2021, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne posted a photo of this drawing on its Instagram in honour of World Food Day, an initiative started in 1945 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to call for worldwide awareness of and collective action to combat hunger. Over the course of 98 years, Kollwitz’s picture was repurposed time and again. It featured in expositions, magazines, school books and, as we saw, social media. What does this remediation mean for the way we remember the past to which the image refers?

AB - On 16 October 2021, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne posted a photo of this drawing on its Instagram in honour of World Food Day, an initiative started in 1945 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to call for worldwide awareness of and collective action to combat hunger. Over the course of 98 years, Kollwitz’s picture was repurposed time and again. It featured in expositions, magazines, school books and, as we saw, social media. What does this remediation mean for the way we remember the past to which the image refers?

KW - Hunger

KW - Germany

KW - World War II

KW - Käthe Kollwitz

KW - World Food Day

M3 - Web article

BT - Focusing on the future

PB - Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

ER -