Tessa Hofmann

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Tessa Hofmann is the birth and author name of the German philologist , sociologist and author Tessa Savvidis (born December 15, 1949 in Bassum , Lower Saxony ). Hofmann lives and works in Berlin .

biography

After graduating from high school in Hanover in 1969, Hofmann studied Slavic , Armenian and sociology until 1974 . In 1974/75 she was a post-graduate research fellow at the State Universities of Saint Petersburg ( Russia ), Yerevan ( Armenia ) and Tbilisi ( Georgia ). In 1982 she received her doctorate and from 1983 to 2015 worked as a research assistant at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Act

As a non-fiction author and editor, Hofmann has published numerous publications on the history, culture and contemporary situation of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora , genocide research , and minorities in Turkey and the South Caucasus , which have appeared in nine countries . Since 1979 she has been working in voluntary human rights work as Armenia coordinator for the Society for Threatened Peoples and since 2003 as chairwoman of the Working Group Recognition - Against Genocide, for Understanding of Nations (AGA). She is the board spokeswoman for the Association for the Promotion of an Ecumenical Memorial for Genocide Victims in the Ottoman Empire (FÖGG) geV and scientific editor of the FÖGG website Virtual Genocide Memorial . At the Chair of Sociology at the Institute for Eastern Europe at Freie Universität Berlin, she worked on the conception, application and implementation of research projects with a focus on migration and minority research in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the South Caucasus.

2008–2012 Tessa Hofmann worked on the international research project Comparing Out- Migration from Armenia and Georgia (Head: 2008–2010 Nikolai Genov ; 2011–2012 Katharina Bluhm ).

In 2019, Hofmann published her first novel ("Doves and Ravens: A Historical Novel from Ancient Ireland".)

honors and awards

Criticism of illustrations

A picture by the Russian painter Wassili Wassiljewitsch Vereschtschagin with the title Apotheosis of War from 1871 was used in a black and white version as the cover picture of the book The Genocide of the Armenians in front of the court - the Talaat Pascha trial published by Hofmann in 1980 and as a photograph with the Title "Turkish barbarism: a skull pyramid in western Armenia 1916/1917".

This cover image and its use were discussed by Türkkaya Ataöv in the work The 'Armenian Question': Conflict, Trauma and Objectivity and the publication An Armenian Falsification from 1985, among others . He uncovered this incident for the first time without naming Hofmann as the person responsible. Also in the by Hermann Goltz published acts of international Dr. Johannes Lepsius Symposium in 1986 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , the topic was dealt with. Goltz rated this incident as "astonishing" and "embarrassing". Accordingly, in her reissue of the Talaat Trial, Tessa Hofmann would misunderstand the painting by Wereschtschagin as a pictorial document of the genocide against the Armenians. A different cover image was chosen for the new edition of the book published in 1985.

Inside the 1980 edition there is also a photo of the painting Les Horreurs de la guerre by Paul-Émile Boutigny (1854–1929) with the caption “Tortured and violated Armenian women . Photographed by a German officer on the road from Trapesunt to Ersnga ”. As early as 1914, a monochrome, photographic reproduction of the painting was exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français .

In 1992, in an extensive essay on image documents relating to the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Hofmann commented on the difficulties of precise image identification, in particular on the confusion of the Wereschtschagin painting "Apotheosis" with a photo document. In a contribution to a commemorative publication in 2015, she demonstrated the use of the Vereshchagin painting in the Greek-Armenian context as an allegorical cover image of the reports by the Greek war correspondent Kostas Faltaits (Athens 1921) about the massacre on the Yalova Peninsula and, in a review in 2019, supplemented the previous ones Knowledge of a well-known photo document of a public execution in Mosul (1917) with the memories of an Armenian survivor and eyewitness to this episode.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tessa Hofmann as editor: The genocide of the Armenians in court: the Talaat Pascha trial . New edition, 2nd supplemented and expanded edition with photos, Göttingen 1980. 3rd supplemented and revised edition, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-922197-05-1 .
  • The peasant theme in Soviet Russian prose of the 1920s. Conceptions, conflicts and characters. Sagner, Munich 1983. https://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00050412_00001.html
  • The nightingale thousand trills. Armenian folk tales. Selected and translated from Armenian together with Gerayer Koutcharian, illustrations by Juliane Schack, Edition Orient, 2nd edition Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-922825-16-8 .
  • Armenia and Georgia. Between Ararat and the Caucasus. With a contribution by Margarita Woskanjan. Mundo-Verlag, Leer 1990 (Cologne 1995), ISBN 3-87322-001-6 .
  • The Armenians. Fate, culture, history. Verlag Das Andere, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-922619-25-8 .
  • Tessa Hofmann as editor: Armenians and Armenia. Home and exile. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-19554-2 .
  • with Dorcas Platt (photos): Ireland. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-86108-854-1 .
  • with Andreas Wolfensberger: Armenia. Stone by stone. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2001. (4th edition 2013), ISBN 3-86108-787-1 .
  • Tessa Hofmann as editor: Persecution, expulsion and extermination of Christians in the Ottoman Empire. 1912-1922. Münster 2004. (2nd, extended edition 2007), ISBN 978-3-8258-78238 .
  • Armenians in Berlin - Berlin and Armenia. With contributions by Doğan Akhanlı and Yelda. Berlin: The Commissioner of the Senate for Integration and Migration, 2005. 104 S. https://www.academia.edu/35066517/Armenier_in_Berlin_Berlin_und_Armenien
  • Rapprochement with Armenia. History and present. Beck, Munich 2006; ISBN 3-406-54136-4 ; 278 p. M. 15 fig.
  • Hofmann, Tessa; Bjørnlund, Matthias; Meichanetsidis, Vasileios (Eds.): The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor, 1912-1922 and Its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory. New York: Melissa International Ltd., 2011. 512 p. ISBN 978-0-89241-615-8 .
  • Savvidis, Tessa; Genov, Nikolai (eds.): Transboundary Migration in the Post-Soviet-Space: Three Comparative Case Studies. Frankfurt / Main, Berlin, Berlin a. a .: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011. 245 S. ISBN 978-3-631-61485-3 .
  • One Nation, Three Sub-Ethnic Groups: The Case of Armenia and her Diaspora. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Gevorg Poghosyan. Yerevan: Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 2011. 191 p. ISBN 978-9930-824-05-5 ; https://www.academia.edu/10740224/One_Nation_Three_Sub_Ethnic_Groups_The_Case_of_Armenia_and_Her_Diaspora
  • Expulsion, persecution, extermination: pictures and texts on the genocide of the Armenians in 1915/16. With the participation of Helmut Donat and with a contribution by Wolfgang Schlott. Bremen: Donat Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-943425-67-3 .
  • A drop of honey: Armenian fables and fairy tales. Ed. U. translated by Tessa Hofmann and Gerayer Koutcharian. Norderstedt 2019. 179 pp. ISBN 978-3-7481-6421-0 .
  • Vision of death: a tribute to the murdered poets of Armenia. Edited by Tessa Hofmann and Gerayer Koutcharian. With 10 drawings. Bremen: Donat Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-943425-67-3 .

Fiction

Pigeons and Ravens: A Historical Novel from Ancient Ireland. Norderstedt, 2019, 276 pp. ISBN 978-3-7494-4245-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://prabook.com/web/tessa.hofmann/41403
  2. ↑ List of the AGA board
  3. ↑ Contact. Funding community for an ecumenical memorial for genocide victims in the Ottoman Empire geV, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Welcome! Բարի գալուստ! Καλώς ήρθατε! Hoşgeldin! Bi xêr hatî! ܒܫܝܢܐ ܘܫܠܡܐ! In: Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ Comparing Out-Migration from Armenia and Georgia to Moscow ArGeMi ("Out-Migration from Armenia and Georgia"). FU Berlin, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  6. ^ Tessa Hofmann: Doves and Ravens . Books On Demand, 2019, ISBN 3-7494-4245-2 , pp. 276 .
  7. ↑ Cover of The Armenian Genocide in Court - the Talaat Pasha Trial
  8. ↑ The 'Armenian Question': Conflict, Trauma and Objectivity , 1994 - p. 123 with reference to T. Ataöv An Armenian Falsification . 1985
  9. ^ Hermann Goltz (editor) files of the international Dr. Johannes Lepsius Symposium 1986 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Halle (Saale) 1987, ISBN 3-86010-098-X , references to the speech by Hermann Goltz, p. 51
  10. ↑ Les Horreurs de la guerre. Boutigny Paul Emile (1854-1929). Vizzavona François Antoine (1876-1961), photographe website of the l'Agence photo de la Réunion des Musées nationaux et du Grand Palais, accessed on August 8, 2020
  11. ^ Photographic reproduction from 1914
  12. ↑ Tessa Hofmann, Gerayer Koutcharian: "Images That Horrify and Indict": Pictorial Documents on the Persecution and Extermination of the Armenians from 1877 to 1922 . In: “Armenian Review” . Vol. 45, No. 1-2 / 177-178, Spring / Summer 1992, pp. 53-184 , especially p. 56 .
  13. ↑ Tessa Hofmann: "Pictures of Horror and the Prosecution": Photographic evidence in the context of World War I, genocide and famine . In: Claudia Rammelt, Cornelia Schlarb, Egbert Schlarb (eds.): Encounters in the past and present: Contributions to dialogical existence. Münster: LIT, pp. 447-471 . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 1915, ISBN 978-3-11-149124-0 , pp. 210–215 ( online [accessed August 7, 2020]).
  14. ↑ Tessa Hofmann: The wounds of the survivors: The fate of Sarkis from Keramet . In: "Armenian-German correspondence" . No. 184, No. 3 , 2019, p. 56 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Tessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savvidis, Tessa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bassum , Lower Saxony