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The lecture describes the change in the culture of remembrance in Germany using the example of the "Peaceful Revolution". Based on the events of 1989/90, it is shown that today - 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall - in Germany reunification is viewed more skeptically than 5 or 10 years ago. What are the reasons for this change? The economic developments of the 1990s and a rather one-sided memory of the GDR play just as much a role as the rise of a new, right-wing populist party, the so-called "Alternative for Germany".

Dr. Andreas Kötzing is a research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (Dresden) and lecturer for German History at the University of Leipzig. He studied history and cultural studies and was a trainee at the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bonn). His research focuses on German-German post-war history and cultural and media history in the Cold War. He works as a freelance film journalist for various radio stations and newspapers.