Kai Ross
Promotionsverbot
These signs are to be found all across the streets of the Bayerisches Viertel (Bavarian Quarter) in Berlin-Schöneberg. They commemorate and document the process of deprivation of jewish citizens from their rights by presenting quotes of anti-jewish, rassistic legal statements from the Nazi-era in the public space.
At the time, this quarter was largely inhabited by middle class citizens from the jewish community. It was also where Walter Benjamin found his last place of residence before he fled to France.
In 1925 Walter Benjamin's habilitation treatise on the "Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels" had been turned down by the university of Frankfurt. He decided to withdraw his apllication for a professorship in advance of the official rejection.
Promotionsverbot
These signs are to be found all across the streets of the Bayerisches Viertel (Bavarian Quarter) in Berlin-Schöneberg. They commemorate and document the process of deprivation of jewish citizens from their rights by presenting quotes of anti-jewish, rassistic legal statements from the Nazi-era in the public space.
At the time, this quarter was largely inhabited by middle class citizens from the jewish community. It was also where Walter Benjamin found his last place of residence before he fled to France.
In 1925 Walter Benjamin's habilitation treatise on the "Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels" had been turned down by the university of Frankfurt. He decided to withdraw his apllication for a professorship in advance of the official rejection.