The Nation

Germany’s Theater of Memory: “Some People Already See the Flames. Others Don’t Even Smell the Smoke.”

A conversation with Max Czollek about Germans, Jews, Muslims, migration, and the aftermath of October 7 and the war in Gaza. “Biographical confession is the active capital of every minoritized ...
William & Mary

Community, Memory, and Shifting Jewish Identities in Post-Wall Germany: The Case of Munich

Prof. Rob Leventhal, with K.C. Tydgat ('07), Sam Thacker ('08), Ben Fontana ('09) and Olivia Lucas ('08) The "negative symbiosis" of post-war German-Jewish culture took a decisive turn in 1989 with ...
Hyperallergic

As Site of Nazi Terror Is Repurposed, Some Reflections on Memory and Public Art in Germany Today

View looking toward the Stadthöfe complex in Hamburg (image by the author) HAMBURG/MUNICH, Germany — In Germany, two vastly different approaches to public and memorial art are underscoring some of the ...
The Conversation

Berlin Wall: secret police files and the memories of two Germanies

Artwork and historic footage are projected on to Berlin’s Stasi Museum as part of the 30th anniversary commemorations. EPA-EFE/Omer Messinger Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German ...
Bates College

Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land

Sonja Pieck’s book about Germany’s Green Belt, the once-militarized Iron Curtain border between the former East and West Germany, begins with the Bates professor back in her homeland, walking with an ...