STUTTGART, Shmuel-Dancyger-Platz²

In conversations, workshops, and a city walk, the Summer School contextualizes, comments, and questions the official naming ceremony. Together with experts, participants delve deeper into the biography of Shmuel Dancyger, a Shoah survivor who found his family in the Displaced Persons Center in Reinsburgstraße and was later shot by a Stuttgart police officer during a raid. The crime remains unsolved, and Shmuel Dancyger's name is hardly present in Stuttgart's collective memory, and the name of the perpetrator remains unknown for a long time. The Summer School builds on Shmuel Dancyger's biography and the act of "naming". It discusses how continuities of antisemitism, racism, and nationalist ideologies can be read into the history and law of the name and how these tendencies continue to the present day. The theme of the name also raises questions about identity.