Auf ein Wort mit Max Czollek und Ibou Diop

In the organizer's words:

Perspectives on contemporary remembrance culture

We refer to the series of memory practices that provide information about who we have been and who we want to be today as a culture of remembrance. But who is this "we" and who determines how many of us belong to it?

In 2024, a conceptual draft for a pluralistic culture of remembrance was published at federal level. This is intended to expand the existing pillars of the culture of remembrance to include three additional topics: colonialism, immigration society and democracy education. This sparked discontent in institutions of remembrance culture, which responded with an angry open letter. An occasion to ask the fundamental questions once again: What do we want to remember? How do we want to remember? And who remembers whom?

Literary scholar Ibou Coulibaly Diop and political scientist Max Czollek reflect on how different, post-migrant perspectives on memory can exist simultaneously. With their joint work in the Heimaten project (HKW Berlin), they also emphasize that they need each other perhaps more than ever, especially in politically challenging times like these.

In a moderated discussion, they will give an insight into their work on memory and the present, belonging and resistance.

Places at this event are limited, so please register at https://pretix.eu/NiLSS/Zeitzentrum/.

Max Czollek, born in 1987, is an author and lives in Berlin. He is co-editor of the magazine Jalta - Positionen zur jüdischen Gegenwart and since 2021 curator of the Coalition for a Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD) for a pluralistic culture of remembrance. 2022 idea generator of the exhibition Rache. History and Fantasy at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. Since 2023 curator at HKW Berlin. His poetry collections are published by Verlagshaus Berlin, his essays by Carl Hanser Verlag.

Ibou Coulibaly Diop, born 1979 in Segatta (Senegal), is a literary scholar, curator and lecturer and lives in Berlin. He is a jury member of Resonanzen - Schwarzes Literaturfestival and regularly publishes on the literature of transculturality and the significance of African literature in the world of tomorrow. For the Berlin Senate, he developed the Colonialism Remembrance Concept, and for the Berlin City Museum Foundation, he works in the Decolonization Competence Centre.

This event is a cooperation between ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage and Spielfeld Gesellschaft.