Black Lives Matter, a Princess from Zanzibar, Bismarck, and German Memorial Hygiene Neumann, Klaus 2022, Black Lives Matter, a Princess from Zanzibar, Bismarck, and German Memorial Hygiene, German Politics and Society, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 77-103, doi: 10.3167/GPS.2022.400105. Title Black Lives Matter, a Princess from Zanzibar, Bismarck, and German Memorial Hygiene Author(s) Neumann, Klaus orcid.org/0000-0003-1865-3141 Journal name German Politics and Society Volume number 40 Issue number 1 Start page 77 End page 103 Total pages 27 Publisher Berghahn Books Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2022 ISSN 1045-0300 1558-5441 Keyword(s) Black Lives Matter movement Emily Ruete German colonialism Hamburg Otto von Bismarck public memory slavery Summary Following the surge of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020, memorials in remembrance of individuals implicated in colonialism or slavery have come under increasing attack. This article discusses and contextualizes challenges in 2020 to the memorialization of Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) and Emily Ruete née Salama bint Said (1844–1924) in Hamburg, where the legacy of the German colonial past is particularly palpable. The article argues that proposed solutions—be it the demolition of the city’s main Bismarck monument, its restoration and the erection of a counter-memorial adjacent to it, or the un-naming of a street named after Ruete—potentially erase the complexities and contradictions of the lives of historical actors, are often informed by a desire to quarantine the past, and, just as often, fail to engage with its continuation in the present. Language eng DOI 10.3167/GPS.2022.400105 Field of Research 1606 Political Science 2002 Cultural Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30167575 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 05 May 2022, 11:28:09 EST Mon, 09 May 2022, 08:15:40 EST Mon, 09 May 2022, 08:17:41 EST Thu, 30 Jun 2022, 16:10:42 EST Wed, 20 Jul 2022, 11:56:12 EST Wed, 20 Jul 2022, 13:22:51 EST Wed, 20 Jul 2022, 13:29:47 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 9 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 05 May 2022, 11:28:09 EST