Bücher von Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss

REGARDING OUR APPROACH TO THE END OF LIFE Death is a universal human experience. The knowledge of our own mortality connects us - beyond all boundaries of space, time and social conventions. Even while we're still alive, the great unknown presents us with a multitude of questions, affecting us in different ways: Is there life after death? What is a 'good death'? How do we find comfort? What remains of me? This book discusses possible answers from an individual point of view as well as from a cultural and social perspective. It forges a bridge between the nature of our fleeting existence and a culture of death that can be shaped, between the certainty of our own passing and the awareness of the impending loss of all our livelihood through the extinction of species.-Reflecting on the great unknown: What does death mean today?-Conceptions of the afterlife, funerary rites, and commemoration of the dead all around the world-Experts from the fields of journalism, philosophy, medicine, forensics, art, ecology, archaeology, psychotherapy, palliative care, zoology, and sociology illuminate the topic in all its facets-On dignity, mourning, and living with the dead-Essays, interviews, personal accounts, and photo spreadsAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE MANY DIFFERENT NOTIONS OF DEATHIn a wide-ranging compilation of essays, interviews and personal accounts, "in_finite. Living with Death" offers a multi-layered look at beliefs about the afterlife, funerary rites, the treatment of the dying, and coping with grief. Here, the perspective extends far beyond the European cultural sphere. Alongside experts from various fields of science, representatives of religious communities such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and the Yoruba religions, also share their views and provide nuanced accounts of diverse, including non-Western, perspectives on the end of life. This book offers an approach that contributes to a holistic understanding of death and makes it possible to ask questions that remain hidden in everyday life.ABOUT THE FINAL CHAPTER OF OUR BEINGFor all the broadness of its thematic scope, the book is clearly structured around key topics. The individual contributions range from reflections on immortality by the philosopher and journalist Stephen Cave to factual descriptions of the process of dying by Dr Jens Dreier of the Berlin Charité hospital and touching reports from the everyday lives of end-of-life caregivers from all over the world.The publication accompanying the exhibition "un_endlich. Leben mit dem Tod" is published by the Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berliner Schloss. With contributions by Stephen Cave, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Matthias Glaubrecht, Cristina Cattaneo, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Jens Dreier, and others.

A Japanese teahouse, an audio installation with Nigerian sounds, and a bronze flagpole divided in two: In the extensive areas of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, it is possible to discover numerous, in part large-scale works of contemporary art. Artworks by artists from various societies of origin enrich the collections in the exhibitions of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. In addition, seven works of art-in-architecture that deal with the history of the location or with the Humboldt Forum as a "place for the world's cultures," encounters, and exchange, or are dedicated to Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, for whom the institution is named, have been realized in the Humboldt Forum. This book presents the artworks in informative texts that are rich in associations as well as in impressive photographs.

Die Erfolgsausstellung aus Canberra kommt nach Berlin: Entdecken Sie den Ursprung Australiens anhand einer seiner zentralen Schöpfungsgeschichten aus erster Hand! Konzipiert und realisiert von einem Indigenen Kuratorium in Zusammenarbeit mit dem National Museum of Australia und der Australian University, entführt uns der Band in die beeindruckende Welt der Songlines.Als kulturelle Routen durchziehen Songlines ganz Australien. In Geschichten, Gesang, Zeremonien oder Felsmalereien erzählen sie von der Sage der Sieben Schwestern, die auf ihrer Reise das Land erschufen. Sie spiegeln sich in Landschaft und Sternenkonstellationen und sind Träger überlebenswichtiger Kenntnisse Indigener Kultur. Der reich bebilderte Band erzählt am Beispiel der Songlines der Sieben Schwestern lebendig von den Regeln des Zusammenlebens, der Kartierung von Rechten Indigener Australier*innen wie auch von der Verantwortung für ihr Land.

Stimmungsvoll ins Bild gesetzt: Das wiedererstandene Berliner Schloss in der Mitte der deutschen Hauptstadt ist zugleich ein Denkmal des barocken Gebäudes und ein lebendiger neuer Stadtbau für die Kultur. Kunstgeschichte, Architektur und Skulptur der meisterhaften Fassaden von Andreas Schlüter begegnen in anschaulichen Texten und atemberaubenden Neuaufnahmen.Fünf Jahre lang hat der Berliner Fotograf Leo Seidel die Wiedergeburt des Berliner Schlosses begleitet, mit dem der städtebauliche Bezugspunkt für das historische Zentrum der Hauptstadt zurückkehrt: Der Prachtboulevard Unter den Linden und die historischen Bauten am Lustgarten treten durch das barocke Meisterwerk von Andreas Schlüter wieder in einen sinnvollen Zusammenhang. Die Autoren, alle Beteiligte an diesem Großprojekt, erläutern anhand beeindruckender Fotografien die Bildsprache der barocken Sandsteinfassade, deren technische und handwerkliche Rekonstruktion sowie die architektonische Konzeption des Gebäudes.