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perspective. One can distinguish between private and public Remembrance Culture as well as their respective regular and event-based elements. The striking thing about a Culture of Remembrance is the fact that collective perceptions shape subjective ones. Social conflicts, relationships and problems influence a Remembrance Culture. In a pronounced Culture of Remembrance, less emphasized elements are likely to be forgotten. Family albums,
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conversation about the growing memorialization of memory, she expressed the view that "Pathos and Kitsch" would shift the view of reality and would not do justice to the victims. Aleida Assmann comments that for KlĂŒger, "museumised places of remembrance" have become "Deckerinnerungen" ("screen memories").
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A lyricist from Dresden, Durs GrĂŒnbein, denotes this attempt of reconstruction with a critical distance by using the title ChimĂ€re Dresden (chimera of Dresden): other cities had also a tragic downfall, however, none of them cultivated the memory of the time before the destruction with so much painful
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provide a rather constant discussion platform for it in the short term but there are many intense social discussions surrounding it from different topic areas. They very quickly touch on political interests and for that reason they are also subjected to a potential instrumentalization through current
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In 2011, during the event "Memorial Mania" there was discussion about suitable dates for the construction of monuments and the risk of instrumentalizing them for political purposes. The US expert for monuments, James Young, who had introduced the concept of "Counter-Memorial" to characterize the
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In Europe, the French-German collaboration regarding remembrance can serve as a template for relations between other countries, such as those between Germany and Poland. These two countries have to come to terms with their shared painful past in order to strengthen current relations. Among other
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of a society or group used to keep parts of the past in their consciousness and thus deliberately make it present. The central theme is not the display of historical and objective knowledge but primarily collective and subjective perceptions of historical connections to the past from a current
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Arnd KrĂŒger: Die sieben Arten in Vergessenheit zu geraten. In: Arnd KrĂŒger, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (Hrsg.): Vergessen, VerdrĂ€ngt, Abgelehnt. Zur Geschichte der Ausgrenzung im Sport. (= Schriftenreihe des NiedersĂ€chsischen Instituts fĂŒr Sportgeschichte Hoya. Band 21). LIT-Verlag, MĂŒnster 2009,
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Culture of remembrance, a historical sorrow, was only of minor importance in the conflict of the Berlin "Holocaust Monument". According to Jan-Holger Kirsch, its proper significance consists in "redefining of ‘the national identity’ in the unified Germany". The monument is considered to be a
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has contested whether Dachau, amongst other examples, is suitable for use as an educational facility and museum. She writes that Dachau is so clean and orderly that it almost feels inviting, as if it were evoking the memory of a former holiday camp rather than of a tortured existence. In a
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changes, in which the previous understanding of past events is altered under new leadership. An obvious example is the way in which we approach monuments, which commemorate heroes from past regimes. They however are not honored in the same way following a change in regime.
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prominent exhibit of the Berlin Republic, in which the acknowledgments of nation and historical guilt are not seen as contradiction anymore. Thereby, the Holocaust can be used as a form of identity politics through which especially Jews are excluded once more.
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Sigrid Jacobeit: KZ-GedenkstĂ€tten als nationale Erinnerungsorte.Zwischen Ritualisierung und Musealisierung. Antrittsvorlesung 5. November 2002 Humboldt-UniversitĂ€t zu Berlin Philosophische FakultĂ€t I Institut fĂŒr EuropĂ€ische Ethnologie
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nostalgia, none of them lived so much through the identikit of their former cosmopolitan silhouette. Similar conflicts arose i.e. during the reconstruction of Heidelberger Schloss (which remains undone).
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sees it as a "threatening sign" that the culture of remembrance is sometimes reduced to a template, whereby only that which fits the template is seen as valid, and that which doesn't is rejected.
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or anniversaries with personal or familial significance are examples of private or subjective forms of Remembrance Culture. Works from a Remembrance Culture can officially be designated as
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affairs. Thereby, questions concerning the Culture of Remembrance, thus the perception of it is closely linked with questions regarding authorizing claims to power and that of creating a
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in this tradition. There was a talk about the appropriate moments for the construction of the monuments and the danger of the exploitation of the monuments for social enforcement.
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that have occurred or are still occurring in other countries - especially when this also still affects disadvantaged minorities. Examples of such genocide are Namibia (the
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things there is a multifaceted dialogue: there have been many events throughout European history which allow for a comparison of different remembrance cultures.
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and other media presentation. Apart from these forms which are more linked to the event itself, other crucial forms of Remembrance Culture are
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Particularly within the public Culture of Remembrance, expressions can be found in a variety of initiatives and approaches, for example the
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In the strictest sense, Remembrance Culture consists of all the behavioral configurations and socially approved or acquired
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In Germany, Austria and in many other countries, the Culture of Remembrance is essentially a synonym for remembering the
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Other prominent and current conflicts about the culture of remembrance are i.e. the reconstruction of
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However, a central aspect of the Culture of Remembrance is not only the German experience, but also
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Das kulturelle GedĂ€chtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische IdentitĂ€t in frĂŒhen Hochkulturen
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in China or the war crimes committed by the Japanese army in eastern Asia during the
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in society. The politicization of Erinnerungskultur is above all noticeable in
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ErinnerungsrÀume: Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen GedÀchtnisses
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Generation und GedÀchtnis. Erinnerungen und kollektive IdentitÀten
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monumental aesthetics of Holocaust memorials, placed the New York
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deutsche VorankĂŒndigung durch das Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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International cooperation in the field of Erinnerungskultur
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A recent example of reconstruction can be found at the
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Bundeszentrale fĂŒr politische Bildung (May 26, 2002).
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Suggestive Museumization ("Suggestive Musealisierung")
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englische VorankĂŒndigung durch die American Academy
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