{"id":234,"date":"2015-02-04T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T13:46:07","slug":"special-exhibition-slaughterhouse-5-literary-testaments-to-the-destruction-of-dresden-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/2015\/02\/04\/special-exhibition-slaughterhouse-5-literary-testaments-to-the-destruction-of-dresden-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Exhibition: &#8220;Slaughterhouse 5 &#8211; Literary Testaments to the Destruction of Dresden&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/02\/so-it-goes1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/02\/so-it-goes1-150x150.png\" alt=\"so-it-goes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The year 2015 marks the 70<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the end of World War II \u2013 and the destruction of Dresden by allied bombers from 13 to 15 February 1945. In honour of this occasion, the &#8220;Slaughterhouse 5&#8221; exhibition documents a variety of perspectives on the event with original manuscripts and personal effects of Kurt Vonnegut, Ida K\u00e4stner, Durs Gr\u00fcnbein, and others, which will be on public display for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>\n6 February \u2013 12 May 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Museum of Military History, Dresden (2nd floor)<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Admission included in price of regular museum ticket<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;text-align: justify\">The bombing of Dresden killed over 25,000 people and at the same time saved hundreds of others, including Jews, political prisoners and forced labourers. The exhibition looks at the role of the Dresden bombing in propaganda campaigns during and after the war, in myths and legends, and in the memories of those who were children at the time, whose trauma was long overshadowed by war guilt and the shame over German crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;text-align: justify\">The exhibition is under the patronage of G\u00fcnter Kunert, writer and president of the PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;text-align: justify\">For more information, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmbw.de\/sonderausstellungen\/slaughterhouse-5-en\">exhibition website<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2015 marks the 70th\u00a0anniversary of the end of World War II \u2013 and the destruction of Dresden by allied bombers from 13 to 15 February 1945. In honour of this occasion, the &#8220;Slaughterhouse 5&#8221; exhibition documents a variety of perspectives on the event with original manuscripts and personal effects of Kurt Vonnegut, Ida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-quick-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}