Your prayers much appreciated for this event on Friday 25th January (Holocaust Remembrance Day in UK) Richard Harvey removejudensau1@gmail.com (via google translate - German in weblink) Wittenberg - Friedemann Ehrig was there when 1982/83 as part of the City Church in Wittenberg remediation kindled the debate on the stigma "Jewish pig". The "range of views" was broad, "he argued that one" has as Christianity and Church does not thereby hide from history, by removing the evidence of history and hidden ". On January 27 will Ehrig, who was a member of the parish council and partly also its chairman for many years, giving in the Protestant Academy Saxony-Anhalt in Wittenberg a "start pulse", in which it comes to the origin of that monument, which finally when the congregation counterpoint to the Schandbild the east pediment of Martin Luther former Predigtkirche was integrated into the floor in the church square. Ehrigs keynote speech also opens an event at the Academy series "Talk to the tower." Walking is the Judenverspottung at the town church - also involved in this "interim assessment of the culture of commemoration in the place of the reminder," as the subtitle, with Richard Harvey those theologian and Messianic Jew from England, as reported in 2016 an online petition to had started decreasing "Jewish pig". Bronze in plaster On the initiative of the Protestant town church in Wittenberg the abusive image, the medieval "Jewish pig" on the outside wall of the church, a memorial was opposed. Since 1988 a bronze plaque by the sculptor Wieland Schmiedel recalls the pavement area to the victims of the Nazis. Still, it came every now and again to calls for a decrease in the Schandbildes. About the "culture of commemoration at the site of the warning and what views are possible" should be discussed on January 27 at the Evangelical Academy. In addition, Ulrike Wendland, Landeskonservatorin the State Conservation Office and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt (Halle), Marcus Funck by the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin and the Pastor i. R. Ulrich Hentschel, former director of studies for the culture of remembrance at the Academy of North Church, announced , "But because of this cast of the plenary" he could, Ehrig, imagine that there will be a discussion. He also knows that some guests want to travel especially for this "Talk am Tower" from outside. will moderate the evening by deputy director of the Academy and director of studies for theology, politics and culture, Alf Christophersen. The event, which is billed as a collaboration with the City Church Pastor Johannes block starts at 18 o'clock. Admission is free to. Information about the program of the Academy are also available on the Internet: www.ev-akademie-wittenberg.de (mz) – Quelle: http://www.mz-web.de/25606560 ©2017