Erinnerung (Seminar) Berlin's Memory Landscape: National Socialism, World War II, Holocaust

Over the last thirty years or so, a large number of memorial sites, museums, documentation centres, educational sites etc. have been created in the city of Berlin and ist surroundings, representing and commemorating various aspects of more than a half-century of violence, war, and (state) terror. Together they form a unique landscape that relates to a century of dictatorships, wars, and genocide. So far, these site have been representing an ever widening and deepening culture of remembrance. But what is to come after the „age of growth“? What are the greatest politicl and social challenges to the established memory culture? What is and should be the relation between the state, professionals, and civil society? How might the local memorial landscape change in the age of global transformation? These are some of the questions that will be addressed.

The course is taught in English. International students are very welcomed. Most seminar meetings will be held on excursion sites on a bi-weekly basis.