Memory and Remembrance

Mit den Begriffen Gedächtnis, Geld und Gesetz wird die Diskussion um das Verhalten der Schweiz im Zweiten Weltkrieg in einen größeren historischen und theoretischen Zusammenhang gestellt. In den hektischen Wendungen der öffentlichen Auseinandersetzung wird oft vergessen, wie sehr das Geld beziehungsweise die Geldmetaphorik Geschichtsbilder dominiert und wie stark die sogenannte Vergangenheitsbewältigung in den Sog der Verrechtlichung geraten ist. Der Sammelband stellt diese Vorgänge zur Diskussion. Er geht auf die national unterschiedlichen Pathosformeln und Mythenbildungen ein, die sich im Umgang mit unabgeschlossener Geschichte zeigen und die der Gedenkpolitik ihr Gepräge geben. Die Funktion von Recht und Geld in bezug auf Krieg, Nationalsozialismus und Shoah steht dabei ebenso zur Debatte wie Verlaufsformen, Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der rechtlichen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit.

Brain input channels                         5
Knowledge Processing                 6
Unconscious Mind                         7
Conduction capacity of the Sensory Channels 8
Learning and Understanding (Confucius) 9
Retention curve                        10
Forgetting Curve (Ebbinghaus)                       11
Cerebral Cortex                       12
Types of Brain Waves                       13
Power Nap and sleeping Cycles                       14
Sleeping laboratory                       15

The aim of this draft paper is to investigate the claim of the inhabitants of Farnham, Surrey, that the first observance of the Two Minutes’ Silence was held in their town at 11 a.m. on Saturday, 10th May 1916, 3½ years before the first national Two Minutes’ Silence on Tuesday, 11th November 1919.  My methodology will be to analyse and contrast the intentions expressed in respect of the planning of Farnham’s silence plus aspects of the observance itself with those of the national silence, with particular reference to the contextual setting and framework, intended purpose, and aural shape and structure of each.

Despite much evidence of its effectiveness, nonviolence has not gained widespread recognition by the media (Summy, 2000, pp. 4-5), with the success of campaigns being attributed to their leaders or some ill-defined “people power”. Similarly, the arts feature in many nonviolent campaigns, yet have gained little credence as an effective tool of nonviolence. They are often mentioned in the media; for example, at the 1979 anti-logging protest at Terania Creek, NSW, the Good Weekend reported that ‘…bead-wearing hippies and rainbow greenies… blocked the road and played flutes, mandolins and drums. They danced, sang, wailed and chanted to the frustrated police and furious loggers wielding chainsaws and still cutting down huge trees’ (Hawley, 2003, p. 19). Yet these arts have rarely been studied in depth, particularly with regard to how they accord with nonviolence praxis. Even within protest movements some do not consider the arts “frontline” activism. This view continues a dualistic philosophy which views direct confrontation as being the most effective form of social change. It perpetuates the machismo of patriarchal politics, and the paradigm condoning violence as an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Many feminists have rightly been critical of such a view (Schmah,1998, pp. 31-33).

This paper argues that the arts are an important part of nonviolence, contributing to campaigns in a myriad of ways. After a literature review, the paper briefly explores tenets of nonviolence that relate to artistic activism. It presents an overview of the relationship between these arts and nonviolence, while noting that more research is needed. It then describes, from an insider or ‘emic’ perspective (Kellehear, 1993, p. 21), examples of arts in nonviolent direct actions (NVDAs), particularly within the broad popular movement which advocates peace and environmental protection, characterised as “eco-pax” by Pakulski (1991, pp. 158-160).

"Magyarország és Lengyelország két öröklétű tölgy, melyek külön törzset növesztettek, de gyökereik a föld alatt messze futnak, összekapcsolódnak és láthatatlanul egybefonódnak.
Ezért egyiknek léte és erőteljessége a másik életének és egészségének feltétele."

A Magyar emlékek Lengyelországban egy hiánypótló és rendhagyó történelmi útikönyvsorozat második része, amelyet 2015-ben a Magyar emlékek Csehországban című kötettel indított útjára az Antall József Tudásközpont Könyvműhelye. A szerzőpáros, Kovács István és Mitrovits Miklós a magyar-lengyel kapcsolatok fáradhatatlan kutatói, népszerűsítői, akik a most kézben tartott kötetben áttekintik a magyar-lengyel történelem kapcsolódási pontjait, majd vajdaságokra bontva részletesen bemutatják a magyar emlékekkel bíró városokat, épületeket, helyszíneket.

Interpreting the history of American slavery presents challenges to museum workers who work to engage visitors in grappling with the difficult history. This paper presents an overview of Commemorative Museum Pedagogy, a sensitive methodology to engage resistant learners in learning about an oppressive history and finding ways to express historical empathy for the oppressed populations.

Węgierskie pamiątki w Polsce to część cyklu historyczno-kulturowych
przewodników, którymi Centrum Wiedzy im. Józsefa Antalla przybliża ślady węgierskiego dziedzictwa znajdujące się poza granicami kraju. Autorzy niniejszego albumu, István Kovács i Miklós Mitrovits są niestrudzonymi badaczami i popularyzatorami kontaktów polsko-węgierskich. Czytelnik trzyma w ręku poszerzone wydanie ich książki, która w czytelny i interesujący sposób przedstawia ponad trzysta pamiątek, zabytków, miast i postaci, które są trwałym świadectwem tysiącletnich relacji łączących nasze kraje.

https://ajtk.hu/hu/konyvmuhely/wegiereskie-pamiatki-w-polsce

Eric J. Schmaltz.  "Soviet 'Paradise' Revisited:  Genocide, Dissent, Memory and Denial -- Part II."  Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Fall 2015):  pp. 22-31.  [Journal PDF uploaded.]  This is Part II of a short article series.  See also Part I in the listing above.

Many scholars are unaware of the resources available at the AHSGR.  See link to AHSGR Website for this and so many other fine research materials: 

https://ahsgr.site-ym.com/store/default.aspx?

The megalithic phenomenon is one of the most exciting subjects of study in prehistory. The practice of monumentalising places of special significance by erecting large stones started during the Neolithic period, approximately 10.000 years ago. On time, it acquired such a social and ideological depth that it became one of the most geographically and temporally widespread cultural phenomena ever known in Europe. In Andalusia,  megalithic sites and landscapes express themselves with great richness and diversity, representing an exceptional source of scientific information for our understanding of our forebears’ ways of life, as well as a unique and beautiful historical legacy. This book combines the contributions of various university professors, who bring us up to date with their research, with excellent photographic illustrations and, for the first time, reflects the spread of this cultural phenomenon throughout Andalusia. It is suitable for both those who wish to deepen their knowledge of this professional specialisation and those who seek the pleasure of a satisfied interest.

This special issue addresses the possible connections and mutual benefits of examining together two analytic concepts – memory and periphery. These concepts receive much attention in various scholarly discussions, yet they have done so rather independently from each other. The potential applications and utilities of combining memory and periphery and the epistemic insights they provide for various disciplins are presented in the different contributions to this issue.

Abstrak: Dengan semakin majunya teknologi “memori,” sekarang dunia menghadapi cara baru untuk menyelesaikan ingatan-ingatan traumatisnya. Kecenderungan (trend) baru menunjukkan bahwa mengingat, dan bukan melupakan, adalah langkah penting untuk menyelesaikan konflik menuju rekonsiliasi sejati. Teologi Kristen menawarkan kesempatan untuk mengalami kesembuhan dari ingatan yang menyakitkan dalam anamnesis dalam perayaan Ekaristi. Tiga orang teolog dari latar belakang berbeda membantu merumuskan bagaimana mengingat dapat terjadi dalam proses rekonsiliasi. Johann Baptist Metz meminta kita untuk mengingat mereka yang menderita. Alexander Schmemann mengatakan bahwa letak ingatan ada dalam Ekaristi. Miroslav Volf meminta ingatan yang jujur dalam proses mengingat. Penyembuhan dapat terjadi ketika mengingat dilakukan dengan jujur dan ingatan tersebut dibawa menjadi milik komunal, yang akhirnya membebaskan individu dari ingatan pahitnya.

Japanese war crimes are relatively unknown in Central and Eastern European societies, more fascinated with the exotic culture of the country than with the darker sides of its history. In former colonial empires, i.e. Western European countries whose citizens experienced Japanese atrocities, the subject is also slowly fading from memory, with a constantly shrinking number of witnesses to the WWII activities of the Imperial Army or the Imperial Navy. However, countries in the Far East
still vividly remember those events, which influences their relations with the Asian superpower. The first part of the paper presents the most serious Japanese war crimes (for example the atrocities in China, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia, as well as the attitude towards western POWs). The second part is devoted to the problems of prosecuting Japanese crimes, not only by the Tokyo Tribunal, but also in a series of less prominent trials that took place after the end
of World War II. At the same time the author considers whether Japan in fact took responsibility for its war crimes or whether this responsibility was only partial. The paper shows the influence of the Cold War and US post-war policy towards now allied Japan on the problem of enforcing justice and the crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army, as well as the attitude of the Japanese themselves to the dark side of their past. The last part of the article focuses on the problem of how
the war’s events have affected the perception of Japan by its neighbours after 1945. This mainly refers to Japan’s relations with China and both Koreas, but also to other countries in the region.

In this paper I provide a short genealogy of one of Benjamin's most quoted and less clarified concept: the "Eingedenken". Its origins are to be found in Ernst Bloch's early writings "Geist der Utopie" and "Thomas Münzer als Theologe der Revolution". I try also to argue that by working on his own idea of "Eingedenken" Benjamin developed a strong criticism of Bloch's gnostic metaphysics.

Places of Memory. Cemeteries and Funerary Practices throughout the Time Abstract for Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica (AUASH), 19, II (2015)

Across the mountains and valleys of Bosnia and Herzegovina (and parts of Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia) Medieval tombstones, unique to the region and known as Stecci, have cast shadows and caught the light for nearly a millenium. These monuments preserve a wealth of symbolism from the 11th to the 16th century “through 80 primary and 320 secondary motifs ... ” Mak Dizdar (1917–1971) a “ ... true Bosnian poet whose literary career began before WWII ... and in 1966 with the publication of Kameni spavac (Stone Sleeper) ... thematizes medieval Bosnian tombstones known as stedak.” With Dizdar’s poetry as a guide, the powerful symbolism and mythology of the Bosnian Stecci will be explored. TO REQUEST PAPER please send contact message.

1. Amila Buturovic, Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdari (June 2002) Palgrave Macmillan.
2. UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Stećci - Medieval Tombstones http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5617/ (accessed 20 June 2015)

The search for the türbe (tomb) of Suleiman the Magnificent in Szigetvár has been ongoing for more  than  110  years  and  already  yielded  numerous  publications.  Researchers  of  different disciplines  typically  represented  a  narrow  professional  viewpoint  and  strictly  limited methodologies before 2013. After 2013 multidisciplinary examinations have been conducted and they applied different methods, including scientific methods as well. As a result, the suitability of the  former  examination  sites  (the  locations  along  the  Almás  stream  and  the  church  of  Virgin Mary  in  Turbék)  was  successfully  rebutted,  and  the  presumed  buildings  of the  Suleiman  tomb  complex were identified at a  new, previously not considered location. This paper enumerates the main findings of the research conducted during the last 110 years, highlights contradictions and interprets the geographical situation in which sources shall be understood.

Often historians look for happenings, for extraordinary moments and major events. I however have argued here to look at the ‘non-happenings’, at the mundane, and the routines of the everyday. Instead of a history of the past, my take on the mundane and everyday guided me through a processual journey, where pasts are inseparably and essentially linked with particular presents. Beginning with personal memories and nostalgia, this piece engages with complex issues related to memories, emphasizing latter’s fragmented, forgotten, erroneous and mediated aspects.

En sociedades con memorias divididas y contradictorias sobre su pasado cercano, la memoria histórica resultante está fuertemente condicionada por un proceso de construcción cultural, público y mediatizado que dificulta un adecuado tratamiento educativo de la historia reciente y la memoria en las aulas. Este es el caso de España, donde, tras una cruenta guerra civil (1936-1939), una larga dictadura (1939-1975) y una transición a la democracia pactada, la memoria histórica continúa despertando relatos enfrentados, fuertemente conectados a intereses del presente. En esta investigación nos hemos centrado en las opiniones de un grupo de 39 profesores de siete ciudades y territorios históricos españoles, que han sido entrevistados con el objetivo de conocer sus experiencias y analizar sus concepciones respecto a la memoria histórica y su gestión pública en España. Las percepciones de los docentes son relevantes por ser representativas de una población culta, con formación histórica, pero sobre todo por cuanto ejercen un papel fundamental en la construcción o transmisión de memorias desde el ámbito educativo. Los resultados muestran una profunda división en torno a la memoria histórica y su recuperación en el contexto español. A pesar del tiempo transcurrido, los profesores de historia no dudan en reconocer en el presente la fractura social de la guerra civil y el franquismo, que conectan con ideologías y discursos políticos actuales. Esta situación, a nivel educativo, conlleva el tratamiento de dichos acontecimientos desde miradas equidistantes e igualadoras para evitar el conflicto y la interpretación problematizada en pro de una visión superficial y pacificadora. Estos resultados nos permiten comprender cómo ciertas memorias colectivas de sociedades en conflicto perduran en el tiempo y es la polarización del presente la que potencia una lectura mitificada del pasado.
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In societies with divided and contradictory memories of their recent past, the resulting historical memory is heavily conditioned by a process of cultural, public, and mediatized construction that hinders a proper educational treatment of recent history and memory in the classroom. This is the case of Spain, where, after a long dictatorship (1939-1975), an agreed transition to democracy and the memory of the civil war (1936-1939), continue to give rise to conflicting narratives, strongly connected to present interests. In this study, we focus on the conceptions and opinions of a group of 39 teachers from seven Spanish cities and historical territories. They have been interviewed in order to learn about their experiences and to analyze their conceptions regarding historical memory and its public management in Spain. Teachers’ perceptions are relevant because they are representative of an educated population, with historical training, but above all because they play a fundamental role in the construction or transmission of memories from the educational sphere. The results reveal a deep divide around historical memory and its recovery in the Spanish context. Despite the time that has passed, history professors do not hesitate in recognizing today the social fracture of the civil war and Franco’s regime, which they connect with current ideologies and political discourses. At educational level, these events are treated from an equidistant and equalizing perspective in order to avoid conflict and problematized interpretation in favor of a superficial and pacifying vision. The results suggest that certain collective memories of societies in conflict persist over time, and that it is the polarization of the present that encourages a mythologized reading of the past.

Cultural contact, exchange and interaction feature high in the list of challenging topics of current research on European Prehistory. Not far off is the issue of the changing role of monuments in the making and maintaining of key cultural devices such as memory and identity. Addressing both these highly debated issues from a science-based perspective, in this paper we look at an unusual case study set in southern Iberia and illustrate how these archaeological questions can benefit from robust materials science approaches. We present the contextual, morphological and analytical study of an exceptional Early Iron Age hoard composed of a number of different (and mostly exotic) materials such as amber, quartz, silver and ceramic. This hoard, found under the fallen orthostat of a megalithic structure built at least 2000 years earlier, throws new light on long-distance exchange networks and the effect they could have had on the cultural identities and social relations of local Iberian Early Iron Age communities. Moreover, the archaeometric study reveals how diverse and distant the sources of these item are (Northern Europe to Eastern and Western Mediterranean raw materials, as well as local and eastern technologies), therefore raising questions concerning the social mechanisms used to establish change and resistance in contexts of colonial encounter.

The first part of the paper develops the argument that geographers should learn to decompose human memory into its constituent parts because then and then alone will we become attuned to the full range of ways in which we incorporate places into our beings. The second part of the paper articulates Stephen Hill's comments on episodic memory with my recent work on wisdom.

Статья посвящена способам представления воспоминаний персонажей в англоязычном художественном тексте. Автор выделяет три типа текстоструктур, репрезентирующих воспоминания героев – ретроспективное сверхфразовое единство, ретроспективный монолог и ретроспективное диалогическое единство – и описывает их основные лексико-грамматические характеристики.
Ключевые слова: воспоминание, ретроспекция, ретроспективный монолог, ретроспективное сверхфразовое единство, ретроспективное диалогическое единство, мнемический нарратив, memory studies.

The article deals with ways of representing characters' memories in English fiction texts. The author differentiates three forms of expressing memories – retrospective supraphrasal unity, retrospective monologue and retrospective dialogic unity – and describes their basic lexical and grammatical features.

This paper contends that New Zealand took an understated role in its overseas memorialisation efforts following the First World War due to its political and social ease within the framework of the British Empire. Consequently, a resurgence in memorialising fervour has been evident in the past twenty years as New Zealand has sought to assert a independant national identity on its war dead and contribution.

The book, written by Nino Chikovani, Ketevan Kakitelashvili, Ivane Tsereteli,  Irakli Chikhaidze, and Ketevan Epadze in both Georgian and English Languages, investigates the process of regaining Georgia’s independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union and how the Georgian society perceived and commemorated it. The restoration of Georgian independence on April 9, 1991, the 1991-1992 civil confrontation in Tbilisi and other parts of the country, the conflicts in the Tskhinvali region (1991-1992) and the war in Abkhazia (1992-1993) followed by the economic collapse and social hardship of transition, had a decisive impact on the self-perception and the formation of memory within the society. Analysed through the prism of cultural studies, the events, which gave birth to the contradictory narratives and subsequently influenced today’s remembrance, are framed by the authors within the paradigm of „trauma and triumph“. To clarify how the Georgian society perceived and interpreted the events, the authors have analysed various textual and visual sources, the sites of memory of local and national importance, as well as carried out oral history interviews. The book was prepared in the framework of the project financed by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (Grant N FR-18-3459).
The book talk takes place online on 05.07.2022, 18.00 CET Time
Discussants:
Prof.Dr. Nino Chikovani, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Prof.Dr. Balázs Trencsényi, Central European University
M.A. Ana Lolua, University of Göttingen
Moderator:
PD Dr. Svetlana Suveica, University of Göttingen

Zoom-link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/67543589250?pwd=RUtqa2NiMFhGTVlhU1NkSHdQdHFyZz09

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This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions. Examining how a Franco-German museum exhibition represents immigrants and exposes public stereotypes, the analysis follows the process of the production and reception of the exhibition as it travelled from Paris to Berlin. The author proposes a microsociological contextualisation analysis integrating discourse analysis and ethnography to compare formats of museum work, social interaction in the exhibition and mass media debates. Visitor reception of the different exhibition versions reveals the symbolic nature of interactions in museums, for example concerning conflicting political voices and accusations of censorship. Depending on the institutional context, interactions in the museums are geared towards securing immigrants a place in national collective memory, towards carrying out debate on integration, or providing opportunities for personal encounters and reflection beyond national categorisation. This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in work on the intersection of sociology, cultural studies, and discursive psychology, in methods of discourse analysis and ethnography; and to practitioners working in museums.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
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“What do people do in museums? Surrounded by exhibits, speaking to tour-guides or reading a catalogue and press reviews, they engage in meaning-making practices. This study of a French-German exhibition makes a powerful case for combining interaction analysis and ethnography in order to carry out empirically and
theoretically insightful research on public discourse – a must-read for students and researchers interested in qualitative approaches to Discourse Studies.” (Professor Johannes Angermuller, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK)
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“Through three museums presenting the same-but-very-different exhibition on immigration, Yannik Porsché guides us on a fascinating journey from Paris to Berlin. The museum institutions not only produce representations of immigrants, but also tell us a great deal about those who do the representing. This study shows how, as
epistemic spaces, museums orchestrate and discipline discourse about their objects. Moreover, it reveals how, as interactional spaces, they – sometimes unwillingly – enable other voices and bodies to speak through and in them. An important book!” (Professor Lorenza Mondada, Chair of general linguistics and French linguistics,
University of Basel, Switzerland)
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“In this highly original comparative study, Yannik Porsché opens a mysterious black box: that of the institutional epistemics of how museums construct knowledge. The study is a much needed corrective to our understanding of museums as a neutral storage space for collective memories—and a fantastic extension of the notion of
epistemic cultures to the productive space at the intersection of the museum, the media and science.” (Professor Karin Knorr Cetina, Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA)
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For full book reviews see:
Kantara, A. (2019). Book review: Yannik Porsché, Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums: Exhibition and Exposure in France and Germany. Discourse & Society, 30(5), 542–544. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926519859748c

Kruber, R. (2022) Book Review: Yannik Porsché: Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums: Exhibition and Exposure in France and Germany. Slovo a slovesnost. 83 (1). 66-70. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1028293

These are the slides from a conference presentation given at the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference in Manchester (England) in April December 2017. This paper is similar too, but builds upon, previous papers as the research develops. Special thanks for the audience feedback, which will shape future conference papers. Please note this was designed for a "live" conference presentation including live demonstrations of Augmented Reality using the Aurasma app.

Pionierska monografia podejmująca w sposób całościowy zagadnienie macedońskich uchodźców wojennych na Dolnym Śląsku. Praca ma charakter interdyscyplinarny, opracowana została na styku nauk historycznych, antropologii kultury i socjologii. Oparta została na archiwaliach krajowych i zagranicznych. Myślą przewodnią monografii jest ukazanie uchodźców wojennych z Grecji, Macedończyków, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem różnych aspektów, jak rozróżnienia narodowego, specyfiki organizowania się macedońskich uchodźców, ich adaptacji i integracji. Ważną częścią rozważań autorskich jest polityka pamięci, która jest związana z wojną i wychodźstwem.
[http://www.wni.com.pl/]

It is the
intention of this study to provide a critical analysis of the material memory at Ka‘awaloa, Kealakekua, where monuments continue to mold how Cook is remembered in Hawai‘i. Kealakekua Bay is a temporal cocktail of past, present, and undoubtedly colonial futurities perpetuated by the American occupation of Hawai‘i. While most of the material culture  surrounding Cook’s encounter (namely Kalaniʻōpuʻu’s ‘ahu‘ula) has been well-studied, no  critical scholarship exists on the monuments that have altered Kealakekua Bay and continue to inform the tens of thousands of visitors that hike and swim to Cook’s “shrine” each year. Undoubtedly, Kealakekua Bay has emerged as one of the most visited places on Hawai’i Island, with pristine coral reefs, hiking trails, and marine life. Yet, it has also been a site of nostalgia and mourning for European visitors hoping to pay homage to one of Europe’s most famed travelers. The bay allows tourists to “look back” at the events of 1778 and stand in the “spot” Cook perished. Thus, a critical remembering of Cook through these monuments and memorials is
necessary to shed light on the traces of colonization they leave at Kealakekua Bay and problematize the ways in which Cook’s legacy endures.

“The Dead are not dead.”
Historical remembrance facing new challenges
Conference held in the ASSITEJ* Workshop 2019, Wiesbaden, 17-06-2019
(*Association internationale du Théâtre pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse)

The conference (in German) points out the problems of new challenges for historical remembrance: (1) a new revisionism emerging through the nationalist critique of the “cult of guilty” and „political correctness“, (2) the question how to adapt historical remembrance in a multicultural society, and (3), relied to both of them, the problem of a wrongly ritualized and sometimes even contra-productive aspects of commemorative culture– all relied but not restricted to the specific German situation. The paper pleads for a new culture of memory culture by integrating more „positive“ historic references without forgetting the „negative“ ones.

„Die Toten sind nicht tot.“
Historische Erinnerung angesichts neuer Herausforderungen
Vortrag in der ASSITEJ-Werkstatt* 2019, Wiesbaden, 17.05.2919 
(*Association Internationale du Théâtre pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse)

Der Vortrag zeigt das Problem der dreifachen Herausforderung der Erinnerungskultur auf, durch (1) einen neuen Revisionismus im Zuge der nationalistischen Kritik am „Schuldkult“ und der „political correctness“, (2) die Frage, wie Erinnerungskultur in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft angepasst werden kann, und (3), mit beidem verbunden, das Problem einer fälschlicherweise ritualisierten und manchmal sogar kontraproduktiven Aspekten der Erinnerungskultur – alles mit der spezifischen deutschen Situation verbunden, aber nicht darauf beschränkt. Der Vortrag plädiert für eine neue Erinnerungskultur  durch die Integration von mehr „positiven“ historischen Bezügen, ohne die „negativen“ zu vergessen.