Geschichtszeichen der Freiheit
Deutungen der Friedlichen Revolution in der Gegenwart
Edited by Constantin Plaul and Karl Tetzlaff
[Historic Symbols of Freedom. Present Day Interpretations of the Peaceful Revolution.]
2025. Approx. 200 pages. forthcoming in
January 2025
DOI
10.1628/978-3-16-163774-2 Published in German.
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Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany’s Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is today either largely ignored, lamented, or partially denied. Yet could remembrance of it not help guard against the current political resignation and pessimism instead? This was the question posed throughout an interdisciplinary series of lectures held at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the results of which are documented here.