The so-called Luf-Boot is one of the showpieces of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin and is to become one of the highlights of the Humboldt Forum: a fifteen-meter-long outrigger boat from an island that was part of the German colonial property around the Bismarck Archipelago before the First World War present-day Papua New Guinea was.
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The website of the Ethnological Museum says that it was built for a chief, but was “never used” until it was “acquired” in 1903 by the manager of a German trading company.
That sounds pleasantly harmless next to all the much discussed cases of colonial looted art.
And it's not true, as Götz Aly explains in his new book “Das Prachtboot”.
We spoke to Andreas Kilb, in the FAZ's feature section, dealing with historical issues, restitution, cultural politics and much more, about the book.
A poem by Sergej Jessenin, to be found in the “Frankfurter Anthologie”, closes this episode of the books podcast.
"Das Prachtboot - How Germans Stole the Art Treasures of the South Seas" by Götz Aly was published by S. Fischer, has 240 pages and costs 21 euros.
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