A Trail of Artefacts - Theodor Bumiller (1/2) // English Version

The two-part podcast miniseries "A Trail of Artefacts" tells the
stories of some objects from the former African colonies of the
German Empire and the people who brought them to Mannheim. It
also sheds light on how these objects became part of the
collection "World Cultures and Natural History" of the
Reiss-Engelhorn Museen. The first episode is about Theodor
Bumiller, who took part in a campaign of conquest in German East
Africa in 1889.





Part 2 of A Trail of Artefacts – Franz und Marie Pauline
Thorbecke (2/2)





We are aware that the focus here is on the perspective of the
conquering societies. Due to the limited time available for the
implementation of the project, we had to resort to those
perspectives for which there is a sufficiently good source
material. We have endeavored to be as critical as possible in our
presentation of the various biographies.  


This podcast is a project of kulturweit tandems of the German
UNESCO Commission in cooperation with the Reiss-Engelhorn Museen.


The aim of the kulturweit tandem program is to bring people from
Germany and Africa together. Within three months, teams of two
develop projects that deal with the history of colonialism and
our postcolonial present.


Special thanks to Oussounou Abdel-Aziz Sandja and Lucia
Stockinger for their input and support. 





Information on the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums' handling of
collection items from colonial contexts:
www.rem-mannheim.de/sammlungen/kolonialzeit/


 


About the authors:


Cheruto Valentine and Lara Wendel are a Kenyan-German tandem
team. As part of the kulturweit tandem program, they implemented
a three-month project at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen. Cheruto is
based in Nairobi where documents African culture and history
through storytelling, and Lara comes from Rhineland-Palatinate
and studied cultural studies.





Literature:


Gißibl, Bernhard und Niederau, Katharina (Hrsg.): Imperiale
Weltläufigkeit und ihre Inszenierungen. Theodor Bumiller,
Mannheim und der deutsche Kolonialismus um 1900. Göttingen 2021.


 


Musik: 


Guinea Wedding by Balafola Suedi


Never forgotten by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen


 


Sound Effects:


Birds After the Rain / Dance the Waltz / Sword Battle 4 / Gunshot
Shotgun 163


 


Music and Sound Effects sourced from
https://www.epidemicsound.com/