Open AccessRicordare la Stasi a Berlino. I memoriali come luoghi d’apprendimento
Author(s) -
Constanza Calabretta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
le cartable de clio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2235-5324
DOI - 10.33055/didacticahistorica.2015.001.01.123.long
Subject(s) - exhibition , dictatorship , persecution , politics , democracy , documentation , visual arts , representation (politics) , media studies , sociology , art , political science , humanities , aesthetics , art history , law , computer science , programming language
This paper focuses on the documentation center and memorial in Normannenstrasse (Stasi-Museum) and the memorial in Hohenschönhausen, the exStasi prisons, investigating the memorials’ exhibitions and didactic displays. Those two places have a common history : they were opened in 1990 thanks to the civil movements’ active engagement. They have developed a political education program, wanting to preserve the memory of the political persecution and repression in the ex-Communist dictatorship and to reinforce the current democracy. The places have become both memorials and places for learning. The memorials, which welcome a lot of tourists, are two central places in the commemoration and representation of a crucial aspect of the GDR’s past, thanks to their exhibitions and their pedagogical vocation.