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Blickt man vom Ufer der Motława in Gdańsk Richtung Norden, schiebt sich ein Bauwerk in den Blick, das sich deutlich von seiner Umgebung abhebt: ein schräg stehender langgestreckter Quader, der dem Anschein nach gleich umkippen wird. Statisch droht zwar kein Unglück, die Schieflage des Gebäudes verdeutlicht aber im übertragenen Sinn, wie es um das Innenleben des Bauwerkes steht. Es beherbergt das Museum des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Kein anderes Museum in Polen hat in den vergangenen Jahren mehr Kontroversen ausgelöst als das Projekt in Gdańsk. Obwohl in Polen zu Recht von einem Museumsboom gesprochen werden kann und es durchaus weitere Steine des Anstoßes gegeben hätte, ist nur der Streit um das Museum in Gdańsk so eskaliert.

German university history departments typically hire two types of historians.
Under the roof of history departments, historians research the past and produce
historical narratives (Geschichtswissenschaft), whereas professorships with an
appointment in history teaching (Geschichtsdidaktik) deal with the practice and the
theory of history. Both professors of history and professors of history education
teach and research in their related realms. However, with this division of labor
between historical research on the one hand, and the practice and theory of history
on the other hand, these two stakeholders of the discipline of history in Germany
are in friction. Public and applied history have emerged somewhere in between the
frontlines.
In this article, we argue that public and applied histories are indicators of change
in German historical sciences. We will describe the phenomenon, explain why
there are two terms for publicly engaged history in Germany, and describe the
change that is underway. This article is written in the spirit of a field report by two
participant observers. It describes coming to terms with a phenomenon for which
various actors in the field offer different paths. All people writing about public and
applied history are part of the phenomenon that they describe, including the two
authors of this text. Therefore, our observations are neither exhaustive nor fully
objective but rather, they are self-critical.

Comment on the paper "Public and Applied History in Germany: Just another Brick in the Wall of the Academic Ivory Tower?" (see https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-81360-3).

"Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and "more-than-representational" dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers."

Transcending the Nostalgic -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Postindustrial Ecologies -- Chapter 1. War, Ruins and Wildness at Orford Ness -- Chapter 2. Uneven Surfaces -- Chapter 3. More-Than-Representational Postmining Landscapes in the Former Coal Regions of Eastern Germany -- Part II. Performative Narratives -- Chapter 4. Performing Imaginary Landscapes -- Chapter 5. Reshaping Remnants of the Recent Past in Transforming Swedish Mining Towns -- Chapter 6. KPGT -- Chapter 7. The 'Not-Quite' and Tuzla's Invisible Buildings -- Part III. Reimagining Futures -- Chapter 8. Made in Lincoln -- Chapter 9. The RiMaflow Project -- Chapter 10. Refining the Heritage Narrative of Post-oil Landscapes -- Epilogue -- Index.

Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and "more-than-representational" dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.

"Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that encompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. The book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populisms, and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. The book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions. Forming a companion volume to the Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field (2020), Reenactment Case Studies is aimed at a wide academic readership, especially in the fields of history, film studies, memory studies, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, and anthropology"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Global Reenactment, Local Practices? -- PART I: Raising Questions of Evidence -- 2. Reenacting 9/11 on Screen -- 3. Crime Scene: Reconstruction in the Works of Forensic Architecture and Robert Kuśmirowski -- 4. Indigenous, I Presume?: Unexpected Outcomes of Repatriation and Reenactments of Photographic Archives in the Upper Amazon -- PART II: Reaffirming Understandings of the Past -- 5. In Honor of the Forefathers: Archaeological Reenactment between History Appropriation and Ideological Mission. The Case of Ulfhednar -- 6. Retracing the Revolution: Partisan Reenactments in Socialist Yugoslavia -- 7. Reenacting the Revolution: The Sacred Site of Yan'an in Contemporary China -- 8. Reenacting Japan's Past That Never Was: The Ninja in Tourism and Larp -- PART III: Challenging Narratives about the Past -- 9. "Are We Heroes Too?": Reenacting the 1949 Offensive against the Dutch Occupation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- 10. Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman Past through Creating the Evliya Çelebi Way -- 11. "You can't just put men in the field and be accurate": Women in American Revolutionary War Reenactment -- PART IV: Restaging Lives -- 12. Exhibition as Reenactment: Kazimir Malevich at the Tretiakov Gallery, 1929 -- 13. The Body as Time Machine: Reenactment in Lola Arias's Documentary Performance -- 14. On Motives for Reenactment: The Example of the Kindertransport -- PART V: Negotiating Justice -- 15. Reenacting the Cambodian Genocide: Performances of Memory in Ella Pugliese's Documentary Movie We Want [u] to Know (2009) -- 16. Performing Violence: Trauma and Reenactment in Documentary Film -- Index.

While the formative phase of the Anglo-American reenactment scene has already been well researched, a historicisation of reenactments as a popular cultural practice of visualising the past is still largely lacking for Europe. In particular, little is known about the developments in East and West Germany. This is the starting point for our article, which provides an initial reconstruction and classification of the developments in the two German states, which gained momentum especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Our focus is on the subjective experience of contemporary actors, on the basis of which it we trace how various groups of people interested in history in the two German states formed and consolidated and in which ways they were similar or different. It also sheds light on the political and everyday conditions under which people acted. On the basis of these initial actor-centered explorations, the text draws attention to desiderata for further research and suggests research questions for future studies in this field – for example with regard to the transnational relationships and networks of both reenactment scenes and the developments during the post-reunification period.

"Die Industrie- und Bergbaumetropole Katowice wandelt sich gegenwärtig zu einem Kultur- und High-Tech-Zentrum. Diese Prozesse porträtiert die Untersuchung und fragt, wie in der genuin auf die Zukunft ausgerichteten Transformation mit Geschichte umgegangen wird. Welche historischen Narrationen entstehen in dieser Umbruchsituation? Wie wird historisch Sinn gebildet und welche Funktionen hat öffentliche Geschichte in Zeiten strukturellen Wandels?"--Provided by publisher