Transformationsgeschichten II - Geteilte Erinnerung

In the organizer's words:

As part of the themed weekend "Transform yourselves!", we cordially invite you to our moderated discussion format, in which we focus on the human micro- and macrocosm of the reunification of the two German states.

Together with our ten guests, we will reminisce and reflect on the different levels of this turbulent time and the years of reorientation that followed in pointed discussions with two or three people. They report from a wide variety of perspectives, from their private and professional environment to the consideration of changes in society as a whole. As different as their experiences and approaches may be, they all have one thing in common: sooner or later they had to deal with the Palace of the Republic. They visited it in the GDR, experienced its closure and decay, followed the debate about the use of this place and helped to define it or participated in its interim artistic use.

Come along and be curious to hear what circumstances our interviewees talk about, what advantages and downsides emerged, what they thought about the Schlossplatz debate and how they look back on this time today.

On Saturday, October 5, 2024, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the Mechanical Arena in the foyer of the Humboldt Forum.

Program

11-11:30 a.m. Gesine Danckwart (artist and director)

11:30-12 a.m. Kerstin Süske (director)

12-12:30 Viet Duc Nguyen (study of silicate technology in the GDR)

12:30-13:00 Markus Meckel (1990 Minister for Foreign Affairs in the GDR)

13-13:30 Jörg Stempel (manager and head of the Amiga record label after 1990)

Moderation: Dr. Jenny Baumann

As a historian, Jenny Baumann prefers to move between exhibitions and historical sites, concept papers and mediation work and - above all! - among people. She studied history, English and Hispanic studies in Heidelberg and completed her doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After working at the Haus der Geschichte and the Documentation Center Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, she has been working in the Political Education department at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the Past since 2022. Born in southern Germany in 1986, she knows the Palace of the Republic not as a place to walk through, but as a place of remembrance.

- free of charge

- Language: German

- Location: Mechanical arena in the foyer

- Belongs to: Transform yourselves!, There and gone. The Palace of the Republic is the present