Inventory – Colonialism and Ethnology in the Pacific

is a historian and journalist. He has worked for the taz, the Berliner Zeitung and as a visiting professor. His books have been translated into many languages. In 2002 he received the Heinrich-Mann-Preis, in 2003 the Marion-Samuel-Preis, and in 2012 the Ludwig-Börne-Preis. His books published by S. Fischer include 2011 Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust, and 2013 Die Belasteten. ›Euthanasie‹ 1939-1945. Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte. In February 2017, his major study on the European history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 was published, for which he received the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 2018.

is director of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, as well as director of Collections at the Humboldt Forum Berlin. He is Professor for Ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne and Honorary Professor for Ethnomusicology at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He has conducted field work in India, as well as in South Korea. His research focuses on the theory and practise of North-Indian Raga-Music, organology with special focus on instrument manufacturing, Buddhist music, popular music and urban culture and historical recordings.

has been Custodian for Australian/Oceania at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig/Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen (SES) since 1986. She has conducted fieldwork on “Oral History and Tradition” with the Arrernte, Luritja, Tiwi and Yolngu people in Australia, as well as with the Ngapuhi in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Samoa, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Birgit Scheps-Bretschneider is a member of various working groups on colonial contexts and works closely with representatives of indigenous communities – with regard to ethical issues of digitisation and online posting of sensitive objects and photographs from colonial contexts, to possibilities of indigenous participation and sensitivity as well as on repatriation, rehumanisation and material and immaterial restitution.

Born 1963, Martin Maden is film maker and writer in Rabaul, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. As a freelance filmmaker and screenplay writer, he has worked as a director of photography, cameraman and sound engineer on numerous film productions, both locally and internationally. He is author and director of several successful films and has run film training workshops since 1986 in the Pacific, Europe and Brazil. Martin was Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre, a Papua New Guinean Non-Government Organisation, from 2001 to 2004. During that time, working to support rural communities affected by industrial exploitation, he started to create and design what he calls “Forum Process Filmmaking” – a method of filmmaking suited to remote communities in Papua New Guinea that supports rural livelihoods by utilising “cinematic democracy” within a participatory and public responsibility forum. He has successfully applied some elements of this genre in his new film Crater Mountain Story. Key player in the making of Tinpis Run, the largest film production ever attempted in Papua New Guinea, with a permanent crew of 30 people and a cast of over 5,000 people.

Hadnet Tesfai is – even if you can’t tell by looking at her – an old hand in the media scene. At the tender age of 20, she already gained her first experience in radio presentation and was a longtime presenter for Radio Fritz in Berlin. She was one of the faces of MTV and hosted programmes such as urban TRL, brandneu and Beck’s Most Wanted Music as well as specials like the red carpet for the MTV Europe Music Awards.

Hadnet Tesfai also works with public broadcasters. In March 2012, she joined the team of presenters at ZDFkultur and took over the daily pop culture magazine DER MARKER and presented at various music festivals as well as the music programme Delikatessen Charts. She now continues to present festivals on 3sat. In 2020, together with her colleague Aminata Belli, she launched the much-acclaimed Instagram talk series Sitzplatzreservierung as a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement and the way it was handled in the German media. You can also catch Hadnet Tesfai in the podcast world. On Tratsch & Tacheles, she and Tarik Tesfu discuss current gossip in pop culture and the media landscape. In Netflixwoche with Jörg Thadeusz, the two presenters examine the new releases on Netflix more closely. In addition, Hadnet Tesfai is part of the new weekly Youtube talk show about relationships, Five Souls.