Reading: Rethinking remembrance

The Documentation Center for National Socialism (DZNS) invites you to a reading with the author Susanne Siegert. "Everything you DON'T learn about Nazi crimes at school": this is the slogan of Susanne Siegert's social media profiles, who has been educating hundreds of thousands of people about the Holocaust on TikTok and Instagram since 2020. In "Gedenken neu denken" (Piper, 2025), she gets to the heart of her meticulous research and extensive mediation experience and shows why our culture of remembrance urgently needs to change. Siegert argues for new, pluralistic remembrance work with a focus on the responsibility of the descendants of the generation of perpetrators instead of the "rehearsed" collective retrospective from the perspective of the persecuted. The Grimme Online Award-winning journalist will talk to DZNS director Julia Wolrab about what constitutes a more active, diverse culture of remembrance. Tickets cost 11 euros, concessions 7 euros, available from the Literaturhaus or Reservix. The reading is part of the "Gegenworte" series. The venue is the Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17.