Mèhèza Kalibani, Tuli Mekondjo, Dieter Daniels, Frederike Moormann, Frieda Mukufa, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja & Angelika Waniek
2023
From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen. A workbook | Diverse Autor:innen dt/eng/fr
Sachbuch
DE Von Windhoek nach Kamina nach Nauen ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit den heutigen Echos der Telegrafie von Nauen (Deutschland) über Kamina (Togo) nach Windhoek (Namibia). Die Technologie der drahtlosen Telegrafie (ein Vorläufer unserer heutigen weltweiten Internettechnologie) ist in die koloniale Gewalt-, Kriegs- und Völkermord-Geschichte wesentlich involviert. Der weltweit erste Einsatz von Funktelegrafie als mobiles militärisches Kommunikationsmedium erfolgte im Krieg gegen die Herero und die Nama 1904–1908, der im Völkermord endete. In der Folge wurde ab 1910 am Aufbau einer dauerhaften Funkverbindung zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und den Kolonien gearbeitet. Ab 1914 kam diese Technologie zum Einsatz, wird aber mit Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs bereits nach wenigen Monaten wieder zerstört. Dieses Arbeitsheft ist der Beginn eines Gesprächs zwischen Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen aus Namibia, Togo und Deutschland über die koloniale Nutzung der
Telekommunikation und ihre Auswirkungen.
EN From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen listens to the present-day echoes of telegraphy between Nauen (Germany), Kamina (Togo), and Windhoek (Namibia). Wireless telegraphy (a precursor of today’s global internet technology) is an integral part of the history of colonial violence, wars, and genocides. Radio telegraphy was used for the first time worldwide as a mobile means of military communication during the war against the Herero and the Nama 1904–1908 which ended in genocide. Subsequently, from 1910 onwards a permanent radio connection between the German Reich and its colonies was built. These installations were used from 1914 on, but were destroyed when Namibia was occupied by the South Africa at the beginning of World War I. This workbook is the beginning of a conversation about the colonial use of telecommunications and its effects between scientists and artists from Namibia, Togo and Germany.
FR De Windhoek à Kamina à Nauen aborde les échos de la télégraphie de la télégraphie entre Nauen (Allemagne), Kamina (Togo) et Windhoek (Namibie) aujourd’hui. La télégraphie sans fil (un précurseur de la technologie de l’Internet mondial d’aujourd’hui) est un élément intégral de l’histoire de violences, de guerres et de génocides coloniaux. La radiotélégraphie fut utilisée pour la première fois comme moyen de communication mobile militaire au monde pendant la guerre contre les Hereros et Namas entre 1904–1908 qui se termina en génocide. Par la suite, à partir de 1910, il fut établit une liaison radio permanente entre le Reich allemand et ses colonies. Ces installation furent utilisées à partir de 1914, mais elles furent détruites dès les débuts pendant la première guerre mondiale. Cet carnet est le début d’une conversation entre des scientifiques et artistes de la Namibie, du Togo et de l’Allegmagne sur l’utilisation coloniale de la télécommunication et ses effets.
Editing/English Translation: Nadja Nitsche
French Translation: Mèhèza Kalibani, Nadja Nitsche
Graphic design: Studio Goof | Julia Boehme
Fonts: Archivo by Omnibus Type, Atlas Grotesk & Atlas Typewriter by Commercial Type, Tajamuka Script by Baynham Goredema
Printing: Sina Schindler, Risoclub Leipzig
Also available as an E-Book
EN From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen listens to the present-day echoes of telegraphy between Nauen (Germany), Kamina (Togo), and Windhoek (Namibia). Wireless telegraphy (a precursor of today’s global internet technology) is an integral part of the history of colonial violence, wars, and genocides. Radio telegraphy was used for the first time worldwide as a mobile means of military communication during the war against the Herero and the Nama 1904–1908 which ended in genocide. Subsequently, from 1910 onwards a permanent radio connection between the German Reich and its colonies was built. These installations were used from 1914 on, but were destroyed when Namibia was occupied by the South Africa at the beginning of World War I. This workbook is the beginning of a conversation about the colonial use of telecommunications and its effects between scientists and artists from Namibia, Togo and Germany.
FR De Windhoek à Kamina à Nauen aborde les échos de la télégraphie de la télégraphie entre Nauen (Allemagne), Kamina (Togo) et Windhoek (Namibie) aujourd’hui. La télégraphie sans fil (un précurseur de la technologie de l’Internet mondial d’aujourd’hui) est un élément intégral de l’histoire de violences, de guerres et de génocides coloniaux. La radiotélégraphie fut utilisée pour la première fois comme moyen de communication mobile militaire au monde pendant la guerre contre les Hereros et Namas entre 1904–1908 qui se termina en génocide. Par la suite, à partir de 1910, il fut établit une liaison radio permanente entre le Reich allemand et ses colonies. Ces installation furent utilisées à partir de 1914, mais elles furent détruites dès les débuts pendant la première guerre mondiale. Cet carnet est le début d’une conversation entre des scientifiques et artistes de la Namibie, du Togo et de l’Allegmagne sur l’utilisation coloniale de la télécommunication et ses effets.
Editing/English Translation: Nadja Nitsche
French Translation: Mèhèza Kalibani, Nadja Nitsche
Graphic design: Studio Goof | Julia Boehme
Fonts: Archivo by Omnibus Type, Atlas Grotesk & Atlas Typewriter by Commercial Type, Tajamuka Script by Baynham Goredema
Printing: Sina Schindler, Risoclub Leipzig
Also available as an E-Book
Direct technical communication between colony and homeland was an important project for the German colonial empire, but was ended in its early stages by World War I. This booklet contains a report on a search for traces of radiotelegraphy in German colonial times; in its partly artistic presentation it goes far beyond a simple travel report. The authors present short, connected fragments of text that are an invitation to reflect, or rather: to philosophise about the past and the present.
Mèhèza Kalibani
We are lying on a meadow in Leipzig. It is summer. We are watching the stars. One of the stars is moving. And then another. A long string of pearls. We shake our heads. It takes us a while to understand that these are the Starlink satellites. We read that Elon Musk was born in South Africa. Back then, in 1971, Namibia was still under the South African apartheid regime. Now Elon Musk is one of the few owners of satellite infrastructure — which we may already have used to google his name. And Namibia has been independent for thirty years.
minus 270 degrees
approx. 80g of quartz glass?
approx. 100kg of titanium
Frederike Moormann
#GallowsMustFall
The 16th June 2020 protest was initiated on NamTwitter as a response to the global uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement. The protest was also triggered by a local debate on NamTwitter about the Gallows. In early June 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, @MavisBraga (Mavis Elisa) tweeted a photograph of the Gallows heritage monument situated outside the coastal town of Henties Bay. This photograph was accompanied by her text that expressed dismay and disgust at how colonial heritage could be overtly visible in public spaces even 30 years after Namibia’s independence from colonial invasion.
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978-3-949554-10-0
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65
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Softcover