In this episode, I interviewed the Anglo-German artist Angela Findlay who with her amazing book 'In My Grandfather's Shadow" talked about her German grandfather who was a general in the German army. She described how trauma, guilt and shame get transferred inter-generationally; how to forgive parents; what needs to be done to understand trauma better.
In this video clip, Angela talks about intergenerational #trauma explains here how Germans find it uncomfortable to speak about their own trauma as #perpetrators/bystanders. Findlay’s book will appear in German in September.
Angela Findlay has spent much of her career teaching art in prisons. Her time ‘behind bars’ in Germany and later as Arts Co-ordinator for the London-based prison charity, Koestler Arts, informed her research into her own German roots and the intergenerational consequences of unresolved trauma, guilt and shame. For over a decade, she has been lecturing and writing about Germany’s process of working through its Nazi legacy – on political, psychological and personal levels – and the wider topics of post-war remembrance, resolution and reconciliation. Her first book, In My Grandfather’s Shadow, was published by Penguin Transworld in July 2022. Angela has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, a Diploma in Artistic Therapy (specialising in colour) and her paintings have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. As an Anglo-German artist and writer, Angela’s book, In My Grandfather’s Shadow, was published by Penguin Transworld in July 2022.
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