En 1889, Georg August Zenker, jardinier et botaniste de Leipzig, a pris en charge la station de recherche de Jaunde (aujourd'hui Yaoundé) dans la colonie allemande du Kamerun. Après six ans, Zenker a été sommairement relevé de ses fonctions. Il aurait mené une vie polygame à la station avec plusieurs femmes africaines, dont certaines lui avaient donné des enfants. Zenker a quitté le pays, pour revenir peu après en tant que simple citoyen. Il s'installe avec sa famille (une femme de Dahomé et cinq enfants) à Bipindi, au cœur de la jungle du Kamerun, où il construit Bipindihof, une maison de style colonial allemand et de vastes plantations de cacao, de caoutchouc et de bananes. Son gagne-pain consistait cependant à rassembler de nombreux spécimens botaniques et zoologiques ainsi que des objets ethnographiques pour les musées allemands. La pensée et les actions de Zenker étaient, il est vrai, fortement influencées par la mentalité coloniale. Mais à plusieurs reprises, il s'est clairement opposé aux pratiques colonialistes et militaristes de ses supérieurs et d'autres compatriotes allemands. Il est mort en 1922 et a été enterré sur le terrain de son Bipindihof. Les descendants de Zenker sont aujourd'hui largement dispersés au Cameroun et en Europe, mais la plupart d'entre eux considèrent toujours le Bipindihof, aujourd'hui en ruine, comme le berceau de la famille.
Yana Wernicke et Jonas Feige se sont rendus à plusieurs reprises dans l'actuelle République du Cameroun pour cet essai photographique afin de retracer la vie de Zenker dans ce pays et de dresser le portrait de ses descendants. L'ouvrage rassemble, aux côtés des images réalisées pour le projet, des photographies d'archives, des documents muséaux et ainsi que les correspondances de Zenker et des témoignages familiaux.
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Yana Wernicke (née en 1990, vit et travaille à Berlin) a étudié la photographie à l'Ostkreuzschule of Photography de Berlin. Elle s'intéresse particulièrement à la représentation photographique des animaux.
Jonas Feige (né en 1988, vit et travaille à Berlin) a étudié la photographie à l'Ostkreuzschule of Photography de Berlin. Son travail combine approches artistique et documentaire.
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
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Hardback. Etat : New. In 1889, Georg August Zenker, a gardener and botanist from Leipzig, took charge of the Jaunde (present-day Yaoundé) research station in the German colony of Kamerun. After six years' tenure, Zenker was summarily relieved of his duties. He was said to be leading a polygamous life at the station with several African women, some of whom had borne him children. Zenker left the country, only to return soon afterwards as a private citizen. He settled with his family (a woman from Dahomé and five children) in Bipindi, deep in the Kamerun jungle, where he built Bipindihof, a German colonial-style house and vast cocoa, rubber and banana plantations. The mainstay of his livelihood, however, consisted in collecting copious botanical and zoological specimens as well as ethnographic objects for German museums. Zenker's thought and actions were, to be sure, heavily influenced by the colonial mindset. But on a number of occasions he clearly opposed the colonialist and militaristic practices of his superiors and other German countrymen. He died in 1922 and was buried on the grounds of his Bipindihof. Zenker's descendants live widely dispersed in Cameroon and Europe today, but most of them still regard the now crumbling Bipindihof as the cradle of the family. Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige traveled to the present-day Republic of Cameroon several times for this photographic essay in order to retrace Zenker's life there and portray his descendants. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783907236185
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Hardback. Etat : New. In 1889, Georg August Zenker, a gardener and botanist from Leipzig, took charge of the Jaunde (present-day Yaoundé) research station in the German colony of Kamerun. After six years' tenure, Zenker was summarily relieved of his duties. He was said to be leading a polygamous life at the station with several African women, some of whom had borne him children. Zenker left the country, only to return soon afterwards as a private citizen. He settled with his family (a woman from Dahomé and five children) in Bipindi, deep in the Kamerun jungle, where he built Bipindihof, a German colonial-style house and vast cocoa, rubber and banana plantations. The mainstay of his livelihood, however, consisted in collecting copious botanical and zoological specimens as well as ethnographic objects for German museums. Zenker's thought and actions were, to be sure, heavily influenced by the colonial mindset. But on a number of occasions he clearly opposed the colonialist and militaristic practices of his superiors and other German countrymen. He died in 1922 and was buried on the grounds of his Bipindihof. Zenker's descendants live widely dispersed in Cameroon and Europe today, but most of them still regard the now crumbling Bipindihof as the cradle of the family. Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige traveled to the present-day Republic of Cameroon several times for this photographic essay in order to retrace Zenker's life there and portray his descendants. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783907236185
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Hardback. Etat : New. In 1889, Georg August Zenker, a gardener and botanist from Leipzig, took charge of the Jaunde (present-day Yaoundé) research station in the German colony of Kamerun. After six years' tenure, Zenker was summarily relieved of his duties. He was said to be leading a polygamous life at the station with several African women, some of whom had borne him children. Zenker left the country, only to return soon afterwards as a private citizen. He settled with his family (a woman from Dahomé and five children) in Bipindi, deep in the Kamerun jungle, where he built Bipindihof, a German colonial-style house and vast cocoa, rubber and banana plantations. The mainstay of his livelihood, however, consisted in collecting copious botanical and zoological specimens as well as ethnographic objects for German museums. Zenker's thought and actions were, to be sure, heavily influenced by the colonial mindset. But on a number of occasions he clearly opposed the colonialist and militaristic practices of his superiors and other German countrymen. He died in 1922 and was buried on the grounds of his Bipindihof. Zenker's descendants live widely dispersed in Cameroon and Europe today, but most of them still regard the now crumbling Bipindihof as the cradle of the family. Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige traveled to the present-day Republic of Cameroon several times for this photographic essay in order to retrace Zenker's life there and portray his descendants. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783907236185
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