Ashes and Phoenix

Cyprus : Ashes and Phoenix

Documentary film about Dr. Johannes Lepsius by Merlyn Solakhan and Manfred Blank.

February 3rd is the 88th death anniversary of the German theologian and orientalist Dr. Johannes Lepsius (1858-1926), whose name is unsolvable connected with the history of the Armenian people. The writer Franz Werfel erected him a literary monument in his famous novel “The forty days of Musa Dagh” , where he named Lepsius the “guardian angel of the Armenians”. We remember this great orientalist and humanist by presenting the documentary film “Ashes and Phoenix”, which was produced with the support of the German Federal Foundation for Culture in 2009.

With an introduction (in English) by Björn Luley, director of the Goethe-Institut in Nicosia.

Lepsius is known for his documentation of the Armenian Genocide. His work, "Report on the situation of the Armenian people in Turkey", was censored on August 7, 1916, however 20,000 copies were sent throughout Germany before the censorship was enforced. Another edition of the documentation is an interview with Enver Pasha in 1915 that bears the title "The death corridor of the Armenian people".

In 1909 the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire had high expectations from the Young Turk movement which brought Abdul Hamid's regime to an end. Yet during the opening months of the First World War, there were mass arrests, deportations, and massacres of Armenians living in Eastern Anatolia. During this time, Lepsius founded humanitarian relief activities, and tried(unsuccessfully) to influence Germany, the Ottoman Empire's ally, which had thousands of soldiers and officers stationed throughout the Ottoman Empire. According to Ernst Jaeckh "At the time of World War I he introduced the Armenian protagonist. Dr. Lepsius, to the Turkish Generalissimo Enver Pasha, and through the author's [Jaeckh's] intervention the lives of many Armenians, particularly women and children, were saved."

Language: German with English subtitles

When

Monday, February 3rd, 2014
Time: Starts at 20:00

Where

21 Markou Drakou
Nicosia, Nicosia 1102, Cyprus
Email:
Phone: 22674608

Cost

Free

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