Wednesday 15.4.2026 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.
From the state myth of Buchenwald to the attack on democracy: even 80 years after the liberation of Buchenwald, the memory of the Holocaust has not reached the democratic mainstream. Attacks on what is known in Germany as the culture of remembrance no longer come only from the right. Why? What is going on? In her new book, Landschaft ohne Zeugen (Landscape Without Witnesses), Ines Geipel delves once again into the past, searching for the origins of the camp world and questioning the legends that emerged after 1945: from the exemplary reappraisal in the West to the anti-fascist state myth of the GDR. A highly topical book about the old and new inability to mourn and the coldness of memory after two dictatorships.
Ines Geipel is a writer, publicist, and was professor of German poetry at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin until 2025. She has been researching and publishing on the violent history of two German dictatorships for years. Her book has been nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize at the Leipzig Book Fair 2026.
An event in cooperation with the Freunde des Rohkunstbau e.V..
The event will be in German, get your free tickets here.
/ ZAK Center for Contemporary Art
/ Free of charge
