Neue Freiräume, neue Abhängigkeiten? Erinnerungspolitik im wiedervereinten Deutschland

In the organizer's words:

New freedoms, new dependencies? Civil society awakening and state remembrance policy in reunified Germany

After reunification, civil society remembrance activities in the Federal Republic experienced a boom. At the same time, state involvement in the field of historical politics also intensified. In addition to coming to terms with Nazi crimes, the history of injustice in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR was now also being addressed.

What were the goals of civil society initiatives and what were the concerns of the state? What conflicts of interest developed between the various actors involved in remembrance politics? And what long-term effects did the developments at the time have on the memorial landscape in the Federal Republic of Germany?

Welcome address:

Johannes Neuer, Director of the German National Library in Leipzig

Dr. Sylvia Asmus, Director of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 of the German National Library

Jonas Kühne, Speaker of the Saxon State Working Group on Dealing with National Socialism

Panel discussion:

Dr. Insa Eschebach, former director of the Ravensbrück concentration camp memorial site

Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Director of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Dr. Thomas Lutz, former head of the memorial site department of the Topography of Terror Foundation

Dr. Josephine Ulbricht, Leipzig Memorial to Forced Labour

Moderation:

Dr. Petra Haustein, Contemporary History Network, Brandenburg Memorials Foundation

A cooperative event of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 of the German National Library and the Saxon State Working Group on the Confrontation with National Socialism.

An event from the discussion series: "After the Reappraisal Generation" - the history, present and future of Nazi memorials

The discussion series brings together different generations of memorial site employees and academics. The participating institutions invite the public in Cologne, Jena, Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin to join in the discussion on site. At the same time, the individual events can also be followed online via a livestream and the video recordings can be accessed via the website www.nachdergenerationaufarbeitung.de.

Information and contact

Venue: Lecture hall, German National Library in Leipzig

Costs: Free admission

Duration: 90 minutes

Registration: Click on the registration button above.

Checkroom information: Please lock your bags and rucksacks in the lockers.

Accessibility: The rooms in which the event takes place are wheelchair accessible.

Contact: exilarchiv-veranstaltungen@dnb.de or phone +49 69 1525 1987