Erinnerungsorte an die NS-Zeit in Stuttgart – was sagen sie uns heute?

Lecture and discussion with Dr. Ulrike Jureit on the launch of the website www.erinnerungsortestuttgart.de.

Large and small places of remembrance, weathered, overgrown or well-tended, in the middle and at the very edge, artistically designed and unadorned, for one or thousands of murdered people, for air war victims and fallen soldiers. Memorials and memorials, groves of honor, memorials, memorial stones, steles and plaques. Places that make you think, but also sad, that provoke criticism and sometimes the desire for change.

190 places of remembrance of the National Socialist era in Stuttgart are documented on the new website. Who is commemorated? When was the site erected and who did it? The website is first and foremost a list of these many places, which can be found in all of Stuttgart's districts. The website gives today's urban society the opportunity to remember these places, some of which have already been forgotten, to visit them and perhaps even to critically question and change some of them.

To mark the launch of the website, renowned historian Dr. Ulrike Jureit will give a lecture on the culture of remembrance. She is a research associate at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and a proven critic of the German culture of remembrance. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Jureit directed the exhibition "Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Dimensions of the War of Extermination 1941-1945".

In conversation with Dr. Jureit, the authors of the website, Beate Müller and Wilma Heuken, as well as Elke Banabak from the Initiative Lern- und Gedenkort Hotel Silber e.V.
Moderation: Brigitte Lösch, 1st Chairwoman of the Initiative Lern- und Gedenkor