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Tessa Hofmann
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Prof. h. c. Dr. phil. Tessa SAVVIDIS, Magistra Artium
Birth and Pen-Name: Dr. Tessa Hofmann
Academic Qualification
- 1969/70-1974: Studied Slavonic literatures and languages at the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as Armenian studies and sociology
- 1974-75: Postgraduate research at the State Universities of St Petersburg, Yerevan and Tbilisi
- February 1982: Defended her doctoral thesis at the Freie Universität Berlin (Slavic literatures/Languages, Armenian studies, sociology)
Profession
- April 2014-March 2015: Women’s Officer at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- February 2006-March 2015: Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- December 1983-January 2006: Scientific documentalist at the Institute for Eastern European Studies
- Since 1979: Numerous publications on Armenian history, culture and recent situation. Other areas of interest: Studies on historical and present migration trends; minorities and their rights; nationalities policies
Collaboration in international Research Projects
- Comparing Societal Integration of Ethnic Minorities (2005-2007; Head: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Genov), funded by the EU INTAS Program
- Comparing Out- Migration from Armenia and Georgia (2008-2012; Head: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Genov, until 2010; Prof. Katharina Bluhm, until 2012), funded by VW-Stiftung (VW Foundation)
Volunteer human rights activities
- Since 2018: Academic editor of the website "Virtual Genocide Memorial" (https://virtual-genocide-memorial.de/)
- Since Nov. 2011: Co-founder and spokeswoman of the Association in Support of an Ecumenical Memorial for Genocide Victims in the Ottoman Empire (Fördergemeinschaft für eine Ökumenische Gedenkstätte für Genozidopfer im Osmanischen Reich e.V., FÖGG)
- 1999-2001: Co-ordinator of the Working Group Recognition (Arbeitsgruppe Anerkennung, AGA) and chair-woman of the re-organized in 2003 Working Group Recognition – Against Genocide, for International Understanding (registered in Germany as a non-profit NGO). More information www.aga-online.org
- Since 1985: Co-founder and co-chair of the Centre for Information and Documentation on Armenia
- Since 1979: Volunteer of the international Society for Threatened Peoples and co-founder of its Co-ordinating Group Armenia
Awards and Honours
- 2015: Honorary professor of the Yerevan State University
- 2012: Presidential Award for significant academic and human rights contribution to the cause of recognition of the Armenian Genocide (funded by the All Armenian Hayastan Fund)
- 2009: Honorary member of the human rights NGO Society of Threatened Peoples, Ger-many
- 2005: Medal for studies on the genocide against the Armenians, given by the National Museum and Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan
- 2003: Hakob Meghapart Medal of the National Library of Armenia, Yerevan
- 2003: Fridtjof Nansen Medal of the National Museum and Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan
- 2002: Honorary professor of the Hrachia Ajarian University, Yerevan
- 1988: Garbis Papazian Award of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (New York)
Online representation:
Academic portal Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/TessaHofmann
Professional Portal Linkedin:
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Phone: 0049-30-8516409
Prof. h. c. Dr. phil. Tessa SAVVIDIS, Magistra Artium
Birth and Pen-Name: Dr. Tessa Hofmann
Academic Qualification
- 1969/70-1974: Studied Slavonic literatures and languages at the Freie Universität Berlin, as well as Armenian studies and sociology
- 1974-75: Postgraduate research at the State Universities of St Petersburg, Yerevan and Tbilisi
- February 1982: Defended her doctoral thesis at the Freie Universität Berlin (Slavic literatures/Languages, Armenian studies, sociology)
Profession
- April 2014-March 2015: Women’s Officer at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- February 2006-March 2015: Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
- December 1983-January 2006: Scientific documentalist at the Institute for Eastern European Studies
- Since 1979: Numerous publications on Armenian history, culture and recent situation. Other areas of interest: Studies on historical and present migration trends; minorities and their rights; nationalities policies
Collaboration in international Research Projects
- Comparing Societal Integration of Ethnic Minorities (2005-2007; Head: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Genov), funded by the EU INTAS Program
- Comparing Out- Migration from Armenia and Georgia (2008-2012; Head: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Genov, until 2010; Prof. Katharina Bluhm, until 2012), funded by VW-Stiftung (VW Foundation)
Volunteer human rights activities
- Since 2018: Academic editor of the website "Virtual Genocide Memorial" (https://virtual-genocide-memorial.de/)
- Since Nov. 2011: Co-founder and spokeswoman of the Association in Support of an Ecumenical Memorial for Genocide Victims in the Ottoman Empire (Fördergemeinschaft für eine Ökumenische Gedenkstätte für Genozidopfer im Osmanischen Reich e.V., FÖGG)
- 1999-2001: Co-ordinator of the Working Group Recognition (Arbeitsgruppe Anerkennung, AGA) and chair-woman of the re-organized in 2003 Working Group Recognition – Against Genocide, for International Understanding (registered in Germany as a non-profit NGO). More information www.aga-online.org
- Since 1985: Co-founder and co-chair of the Centre for Information and Documentation on Armenia
- Since 1979: Volunteer of the international Society for Threatened Peoples and co-founder of its Co-ordinating Group Armenia
Awards and Honours
- 2015: Honorary professor of the Yerevan State University
- 2012: Presidential Award for significant academic and human rights contribution to the cause of recognition of the Armenian Genocide (funded by the All Armenian Hayastan Fund)
- 2009: Honorary member of the human rights NGO Society of Threatened Peoples, Ger-many
- 2005: Medal for studies on the genocide against the Armenians, given by the National Museum and Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan
- 2003: Hakob Meghapart Medal of the National Library of Armenia, Yerevan
- 2003: Fridtjof Nansen Medal of the National Museum and Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan
- 2002: Honorary professor of the Hrachia Ajarian University, Yerevan
- 1988: Garbis Papazian Award of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (New York)
Online representation:
Academic portal Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/TessaHofmann
Professional Portal Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAAAh2MqABTH0Hksf405nmJEc6cg03M9Bd_2Q&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile_pic
Phone: 0049-30-8516409
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refugees was set in motion by the annexation of Alexandretta, but also the genocide survivors in Syria and Lebanon still suffered from the unmitigated material
consequences of the Genocide. Over two hundred of the collection's documents relate directly to the massacres of 1894 and the Genocide of World War I, while over a hundred more deal with the activity of German and other relief organizations. From this collection we published in 1992 118 documents, some of them for the first time, arranged in thematic-chronological order.
remember?
At the same time, genre hybridity as a characteristic of post-genocidal or post-migrant German prose is analyzed.
Keywords: Ottoman Genocide, Post-migrant prose, Post-genocidal prose, intergenerational experience, family novel, travel prose.
Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Smyrna, Genocide, Nation state, Ottoman Greeks, Ottoman Christians.
refugees was set in motion by the annexation of Alexandretta, but also the genocide survivors in Syria and Lebanon still suffered from the unmitigated material
consequences of the Genocide. Over two hundred of the collection's documents relate directly to the massacres of 1894 and the Genocide of World War I, while over a hundred more deal with the activity of German and other relief organizations. From this collection we published in 1992 118 documents, some of them for the first time, arranged in thematic-chronological order.
remember?
At the same time, genre hybridity as a characteristic of post-genocidal or post-migrant German prose is analyzed.
Keywords: Ottoman Genocide, Post-migrant prose, Post-genocidal prose, intergenerational experience, family novel, travel prose.
Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Smyrna, Genocide, Nation state, Ottoman Greeks, Ottoman Christians.
German edition of eleven Armenian authors.
Mit wenigen Ausnahmen fielen die in der Anthologie versammelten Autoren unmittelbar dem Elitizid zum opfer, mit dem die natio-nalistischen Regime des "Komitees für Einheit und Fortschritt" ("Jungtürken") die geistige und geistliche Elite der Armenier im Osmanischen Reich gezielt vernichteten. Der auch als Dichter hochbegabte Komitas ist durch das Erlebnis des Völkermords dauerhaft traumatisiert worden - unfähig, sein Schaffen fortzusetzen. Sapel Jessajan verlor ihr Leben als stalinistisch Verfolgte.
Die Gedichte und Prosawerke geben Einblick in die Stimmung und Denkweise der armenischen Intelligenzija um die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Sie ist bereits von Verfolgungserfahrungen in den Jahren 1894-96 und 1909 geprägt, reflektiert aber auch sozialkritische Aspekte.
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period.
Two introductory chapters provide an overview on the topic of international migration and on the aims of the research project. Three reports explore causes, processes and effects
of out-migration from Armenia and Georgia to Moscow which is the most relevant destination of migrants from the South Caucasus. The issue also contains a comprehensive bibliography on out-migration from Armenia and Georgia and
immigration to Russia.
The guiding idea of the descriptions and explanations is the necessity to analyze international migration from the perspective of both the countries of origin and the countries of immigration. This balanced approach is further elaborated by taking into account the variety of macro-, meso-, and micro-social determinants of international migration and its consequences. This two-tired explanatory model offers fresh
insights into the interplay of economic, political and cultural factors and effects of migration. In addition, it makes it possible to systematically study acting individuals together with economic organizations, political institutions and other
collective actors involved in the international migration.
A second article in the same issue of "Berliner Tagesspiegel" is dedicated to the relationship of Armenia's Diasporas and the "homeland".
Erdbeben und die Neuordnung Armeniens, 1985–1998 (2019)
In my pptx-supported lecture (Athens, Dec 1, 2018) I explain the demographic peculiarities of the Ottoman Empire and the historical-political background in the period between the Balkan Wars of 1912/3 and the capture of Smyrna (Sept. 1922) before I trace the course of the genocide of the Greek Orthodox population and ask about the peculiarities in comparison with the fate of the Armenians. My thesis is that these specifics consisted above all in the regionalization as well as in the long duration of this genocide, which was committed before, during and after the First World War.
It will also be necessary to ask about the role of protective powers for Ottoman Christians: Unlike the Ottoman Armenians, of whom one and a half million were destroyed in just 19 months, the Greek Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire had, at least temporarily, a protective state in Greece. Thus the initial neutrality of Greece in the WW1 initially caused a deceleration of the annihilation policy.
Finally, the applicability of the term genocide as defined by international law to events in the late Ottoman Empire must be justified.
The period under scrutiny saw the successive collapse of the Ottoman Empire and its civic administration, the emergence of a rivaling nationalist state under Mustafa Kemal and the guerilla fight of Kemalist irregulars against the Hellenic occupational forces and the indigenous Christian population, including returning WW1 deportees. The years 1920 and 1921 also saw the failure of the Allies to establish an impartial judiciary, to protect Ottoman Christians from further massacres, including large-scale sexual violence, and to prevent their economic destruction. As side effect of the traumatizing and at the same time brutalizing events the impoverished and homeless Yalova Christians in a few cases retaliated on their tormentors or on the Muslim population in general. The only resort that the Allies knew was to evacuate Christian survivors to Thrace and the Greek islands in 1922 (21,000 ethnic Greeks, 9,000 Armenians).
My account and analyze derives from the report of the Inter-Allied Yalova Commission (1921), the findings of the Armenian-Greek Section at the Inter-Allied High Commission in Constantinople and the testimonies, gathered in situ by the Greek war correspondent Konstantinos Faltaits. The conclusion is that the local ‘atrocities’, which resulted in the murder of more than 15,000 Greeks and the arson of 37 Greek villages, form an episode in the genocidal destruction of more than one million Romiosyni (Rumlar) during the last decade of Ottoman rule.