80 Jahre nach Kriegsende – Wie können wir in Zukunft erinnern?

Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Jacob Eder, Julia Wolrab and Christian Serdarusic, moderated by Lisa Welzhofer (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) at the Stuttgart City Archive.

2025 marks a significant year in the German culture of remembrance. Eight decades after the liberation from National Socialism, we are faced with the question of how to commemorate the crimes and atrocities of the Nazi regime in the future. For decades, the reports of contemporary witnesses kept the memory alive and shaped the awareness of the responsibility to never allow such crimes to happen again. But now we are at a turning point: with the advancing age of the last survivors, a central pillar of the previous culture of remembrance is threatening to break away. At the same time, right-wing extremist movements are gaining influence and attempting to reinterpret or even falsify history.

How can a living culture of remembrance survive in the future? What role do schools, museums and memorials play? And how can we decisively counter the ever-increasing falsification of history? These and other questions will be discussed by Prof. Dr. Jacob Eder, contemporary historian and professor of history at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Julia Wolrab, scientific director at the Documentation Centre for National Socialism in Freiburg and Christian Serdarusic, specialist at the Stuttgart Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance, with Lisa Welzhofer (Stuttgarter Nachrichten) as moderator.

Prof. Dr. Jacob Eder is a contemporary historian and teaches history at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with an award-winning thesis, which was published in Germany in 2020 under the title "Holocaust-Angst".

Julia Wolrab is the scientific director of the Documentation Center for National Socialism in Freiburg. She studied history, Islamic studies and public history and has worked as a consultant for Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie e.V. in the field of historical-political education.

Christian Serdarusic is a specialist for research and academic reappraisal at the City of Stuttgart's Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Tübingen and Zagreb and worked as a consultant for political education programs at the German-Turkish Forum Stuttgart.

In cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom