Sofia Bergmann

Sofia Bergmann

Sofia Bergmann is a Berlin-based freelance journalist and photographer. She focuses on social issues, and arts and culture, with a special interest in Armenia, where she lived in 2019. She was an intern at EVN Report while she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism at Northeastern University. She continues to work on Armenian topics. Now based in Berlin, she is in graduate school for documentary photography at the Ostkreuzschule while writing for various publications and working in the art industry.

110 Years Later, the Perpetrator Becomes the Host

110 Years Later, the Perpetrator Becomes the Host

Berlin marked the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide last year with an unprecedented cultural program. Yet the commemorations also exposed a deeper paradox: Germany, once complicit in the genocide, now hosts the memory work, as artists and curators confront history, responsibility and contemporary politics.

Aurora Mardiganian on Stage in Berlin Again

Aurora Mardiganian on Stage in Berlin Again

How can we tell an important story that has been forgotten? Arsinee Khanjian’s answer to this question has been to take the impact of the story, and make it inevitable. That is what the 2015 performance called Auction of Souls, which was again on stage at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin this year, did.

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