{"id":1116,"date":"2022-04-04T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doing-memory.de\/the-reversal-of-perpetrator-and-victim-remembering-the-murder-of-shlomo-lewin-and-frida-poeschke\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:47:34","slug":"the-reversal-of-perpetrator-and-victim-remembering-the-murder-of-shlomo-lewin-and-frida-poeschke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doing-memory.de\/en\/the-reversal-of-perpetrator-and-victim-remembering-the-murder-of-shlomo-lewin-and-frida-poeschke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reversal of Perpetrator and Victim \u2013 Remembering the Murder of Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This podcast episode commemorates the murder of Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke. The guests are <strong>Anna<\/strong>from the &#8220;initiative kritisches gedenken erlangen&#8221; (Initiative attain critical remembrance) and<strong>Uffa Jensen<\/strong>, deputy director of the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University in Berlin. The conversation revolves, among other things, around the perpetrator-victim reversal and the removal of the anti-Semitic motive for the crime in the treatment and media coverage of the act of violence.<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/doing-memory\/embed\/episodes\/S1F07-Umkehr-von-Tter-und-Opfer--Erinnerung-an-die-Ermordung-von-Shlomo-Lewin-und-Frida-Poeschke-e1hcg92\" height=\"140px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the event<\/h4>\n\n<p>On the evening of December 19, 1980, Rabbi Shlomo Lewin and his partner Frida Poeschke are shot dead in their home in Erlangen by a neo-Nazi. Even though substantial clues pointed to the local neo-Nazi scene, the police first investigate this anti-Semitic murder in the victim&#8217;s surroundings. The media, too, portrays Lewin and Poeschke as dishonest persons. The murderer, a member of the right-wing extremist Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (WSG), manages to escape abroad. <\/p>\n\n<p>These events, including the public posthumous defamation of the murder victim Shlomo Lewin and the fabrication of the anti-Semitic conspiracy narrative by the right-wing extremist Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, have been researched and elaborated since 2011 by Ulrich Chaussy for the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and the city of Erlangen. They can be found in his books &#8220;Oktoberfest. The Assassination. Wie die Verdr\u00e4ngung des Rechtssterrors begann&#8221; (2014) and &#8220;Das Oktoberfestattentat und der Doppelmord von Erlangen. How right-wing terrorism and anti-Semitism have been repressed since 1980&#8221; (2020).<\/p>\n\n<p>Use of Shlomo Lewin&#8217;s speech excerpt with the kind permission of the Institute for Social Science Research, Education and Counseling (ISFBB) e.V. <\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Literature, links and background information<\/h4>\n\n<p>Website of \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/kritischesgedenken.de\/\">initiative kritisches gedenken erlangen<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n<p>Uffa Jensen (2022): \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suhrkamp.de\/epub\/uffa-jensen-ein-antisemitischer-doppelmord-t-9783518769461\">Ein antisemitischer Doppelmord \u2013 die vergessene Geschichte des Rechtsterrorismus in der Bundesrepublik<\/a>\u201c. The publication of the book has been postponed. It will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag on September 22, 2022.<\/p>\n\n<p>Website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jkgerlangen.de\/\">Jewish community in Erlangen<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The interview with Paul Spiegel can be seen in the documentary &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BDK88KaFK9U\">Propaganda, Hass, Mord. Die Geschichte des Rechten Terrors<\/a>\u201c, (Propaganda, hate, murder. The history of right-wing terror) first broadcast: ARD, 26.3.2012, available on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n<p>A right-wing extremist terrorist attack at the main entrance of the Oktoberfest in Munich killed 13 people on September 26, 1980, when a handmade bomb exploded.<\/p>\n\n<p>On August 22, 1980, the two Vietnamese Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Ch\u00e2u and \u0110\u1ed7 Anh L\u00e2n died in an arson attack on a transitional home for refugees in Halskestra\u00dfe in Hamburg-Billbrook. The perpetrators were members of the neo-Nazi terrorist organisation Deutsche Aktionsgruppen. The attack is considered one of the first racist murders in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.<\/p>\n\n<p>The murder of the two Vietnamese refugees is also the subject of an <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7mymGbOGT3guNQnuB4ZRnP?si=9b5e09145e424fd7\"> episode of Rice &amp; Shine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>General information on the murder, character assassination and on Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cilip.de\/2020\/12\/17\/blaming-the-victims-der-antisemitische-doppelmord-in-erlangen-1980-und-die-ermittler\/\">Ronen Steinke<\/a> on the murder and the investigation<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de\/ermordet-von-haenden-von-boesewichten-der-mord-an-shlomo-lewin-und-frida-poeschke-64583\/\">Blumenthaler<\/a> on Lewin&#8217;s life, the Hoffmann military sports group, the murder and the investigations<\/p>\n\n<p>Article by Przybilla and Ramelsberger in the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung about \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/bayern\/erlangen-doppelmord-1980-justizgeschichte-1.5152017\">The Trauma of Erlangen<\/a> \u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>In memory of Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erlangen.de\/desktopdefault.aspx\/tabid-2096\/\">Stadt Erlangen<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erlangen.de\/Portaldata\/1\/Resources\/080_stadtverwaltung\/dokumente\/sonstiges\/WdB2011Veroeffentlichung_Redebeitraege_Internet.pdf\">Redebeitrag<\/a> zur Woche der Br\u00fcderlichkeit, unter anderem von Ulrich Chaussy<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juedische-allgemeine.de\/politik\/40-jahre-nach-den-morden\/\">Artikel<\/a> der J\u00fcdischen Allgemeinen Zeitung zur 40. J\u00e4hrung des Doppelmords<\/p>\n\n<p>On the subject of the continuities of anti-Semitism and right-wing terrorism:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.dissenspodcast.de\/84-steinke\">Dissens-Podcast<\/a> with guest Ronen Steinke<\/p>\n\n<p>Ronen Steinke in conversation with Philipp Schnee in the audio play &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/mordfall-shlomo-lewin-lehrbeispiel-fuer-den-umgang-mit.976.de.html?dram:article_id=489559\">Lehrbeispiel f\u00fcr den Umgang mit rechtem Terror<\/a>\u201c (example of dealing with right-wing terror)<\/p>\n\n<p>On the subject of violence by the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (WSG):<\/p>\n\n<p>The extreme right-wing paramilitary Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (WSG) was founded in 1973 by Karl-Heinz Hoffmann and consisted of up to 400 members. The WSG is associated with right-wing terrorism; for example, the murderer of Lewin and Poeschke and the bomber of the Oktoberfest attack, which took place in the same year, were associated with the WSG. <\/p>\n\n<p>Book by Ulrich Chaussy \u201cDas Oktoberfest-Attentat und der Doppelmord von Erlangen: Wie Rechtsterrorismus und Antisemitismus seit 1980 verdr\u00e4ngt werden\u201d (2020)<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h4>\n\n<p>Editors: Tanja Thomas, Fabian Virchow and Tobias Fernholz<br\/>Co-conceptualization and production: grasshopper kreativ<br\/>Hosts: Tanja Thomas and Fabian Virchow<br\/>Sound logo: Martin Pfeilsticker and Pia Fruth<\/p>\n\n<p>The event review was produced by Master&#8217;s students from Eberhard Karls University T\u00fcbingen and D\u00fcsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits event review<\/h5>\n\n<p>Soundbites: Representative of Initiative Kritisches Gedenken Erlangen( the Erlangen Critical Commemoration Initiative), Sebastian Wehrhahn<br\/>Speakers: Pia Fruth and Daniel Jacob<br\/>Project management: Carolin Wenzel<br\/>Research &amp; Shownotes: Jana Machacek &amp; Luisa Simon<br\/>Storyboard &amp; voice over text: Julia Glass &amp; Joerg M\u00fcller<br\/>Interview &amp; editing: Daniel Jacob<br\/>Excerpts: Anna Siemen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This podcast episode commemorates the murder of Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke. 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