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German comic book on the Holocaust

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 27, 2008, NY Times Abroad No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN BERLIN ? The other morning Jens Augner, slight and owlish, a schoolteacher in his 40s, quizzed his eighth-grade class of 13- and 14-year-olds at the Humboldt Gymnasium, a local school. As part of a trial program, he has just introduced a new history textbook into the curriculum: to be exact, a comic book about the Holocaust, called ?The Search.? Among other things, the book, building on the obvious precedent of Art Spiegelman's "Maus," shows how far comics have come as a cultural medium taken seriously here, but also that the Holocaust has come a long way too, as a topic to be freshly considered by a new generation of German teenagers. As it happens, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, just recently made headlines across Europe and elsewhere when, seemingly out of the blue, he announced that beginning next fall, French fifth graders should each study the life of one of the 11,000 French children killed during the Holocaust...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).