Zerfallene Geschichte - DDR-Orte im Wandel

In the organizer's words:

On February 13/14, over thirty projects from all East German states will be taking part in the symposium "Dangerously endangered. Reappropriation of places with GDR history" at the Humboldt Forum.

Representatives from civil society, local and state politics, the private sector, research, monument preservation, museums and memorials will present places that have undergone a transformation, will take on new forms or whose existence is in question. They will have entered into conversation with each other in order to share knowledge, make new connections and promote ideas for future debates.

In what ways are places "contaminated"? How do memory and transformation go together?

These and other questions were addressed by the symposium participants. On the stage in the foyer, symposium contributors will share their reflections from the previous day with the audience. Find out more about this topic and the locations and get curious and stop by the "Palast-Treff I - Places with GDR History" in Hall 1 afterwards, where 6 locations from the symposium will be on display.

Contributors to the symposium

Eter Hachmann has been the councillor for social affairs, education, youth and senior citizens in Dessau-Roßlau since January 2023. Born in Georgia, she studied law and political science in Tbilisi, Göttingen, Dresden and Leipzig. She worked at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation until the end of 2022. She has been involved in migration and refugee work for over ten years and, together with Rubén Cárdenas Carbajal (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), has been Chair of the Board of DaMOst, the umbrella organization of migrant organizations in eastern Germany, since October 2022.

Hanno Hochmuth, born 1977 in East Berlin, is a historian at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) and teaches public history at the Free University of Berlin. Publications include Friedhof der Märzgefallenen. Zum Ort der Revolution von 1848 in der DDR (ed. with Oliver Gaida et al., Berlin 2024), Berlin. Das Rom der Zeitgeschichte (Berlin 2024); Stadtgeschichte als Zeitgeschichte. Berlin in the 20th Century (ed. with Paul Nolte, Göttingen 2019); Kiezgeschichte. Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in Divided Berlin (Göttingen 2017).

- free of charge

- Language: German

- Venue: Foyer

- Belongs to: Goodbye, Palast