Memory of the nation

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The Nation's Memory is a project launched by the Our History Association. The Gedächtnis der Nation eV , whereby the memories of the people in Germany are recorded and archived. The chairmen of the association were Guido Knopp and Hans-Ulrich Jörges . The project has now been transferred to the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and integrated into its contemporary witness portal.

history

In 1998 ZDF started a collection of interviews from people about their experiences in the 20th century . A bus (“bus of the century”) was used to drive through Germany to reach people directly. Around 6000 conversations were recorded, which form the basis of the work of the Our History association founded in 2006 by Guido Knopp and Hans-Ulrich Jörges . Build the nation's memory . However, Jörges cites the documentation of memories of Holocaust survivors by the Shoah Foundation as the trigger for the establishment .

Since October 2011 a “bus of the century” has been on the road again, in which contemporary witnesses are asked about their memories in order to record German history in the form of video interviews and to keep it permanently on the Internet for future generations, especially for schools and universities. The portal started on October 6, 2011, and since then the “bus of the century”, which was set up as a TV studio, has been traveling through Germany to interview contemporary witnesses. First Christian Wulff was the project's patron, then Joachim Gauck . The Minister of State for Culture a. D. Bernd Neumann was chairman of the board of trustees.

Partner of the project

The project is funded by several supporters. So are Daimler AG , the Bertelsmann AG (together with the subsidiary companies Gruner + Jahr and stern ), Google (with its subsidiary YouTube ), the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the ZDF active. Also PM History reports on topics of the portal.

criticism

The project was criticized negatively by the historian Norbert Frei , because "history [is] formed and not queried or preserved".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint contemporary witness portal Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Interview by Jens Müller-Bauseneik with Hans-Ulrich Jörges: That makes history alive , PM History # 6/2012 , p. 29.
  3. ↑ a b Website of the project Das Gedächtnis der Nation , accessed May 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jens Müller-Bauseneik: Zeitzeugen for the archive of memories , PM History , # 6/2012 , pp. 26-29
  5. ↑ Norbert Frei in conversation with Britta Bürger: “Memories change” , deutschlandradiokultur.de (October 12, 2011), accessed on February 15, 2014