Exhibiting: A Space of Reflection on Events from 1933 to 1945

A new Core Exhibition on German history is being developed at the German Historical Museum. It will focus on a chronological presentation from the late Middle Ages through to the most recent past. On the basis of incisive events, processes of change, and historical watershed moments, visitors will receive a chronologically clearly structured overview of key themes of German history in its European and global context. The chronology will be perforated by two transformational spaces addressing the epochal processes of upheaval at the beginning of the early modern period and the beginning of the nineteenth century. A space of reflection is being conceptualized for the period after 1945 which will serve to take pause. It will show attempts by Jews and non-Jews to comprehend the fundamental rupture of the years 1933 to 1945. In this seminar, we will address these engagements through texts that have wrestled for decades to understand these catastrophic events from philosophical, historical, and legal perspectives. The seminar will also serve to develop suggestions for a visualization of these reflections through objects.

Literature: A reading list will be provided in advance.

Open for senior students: no