Communicative memory

The German cultural scientists Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann describe the verbal transmission of personal experiences as communicative memory . Communicative memory and cultural memory together make up the collective memory . The communicative memory is limited to the oral tradition of the previous 3  generations , according to Assmann to around 80 years. The memory passes with its bearers. In this context, Assmann speaks of “structural amnesia ” after this period has elapsed. The communicative memory is close to everyday life and is group-bound . The oral narratives are fleeting and changeable, but on the other hand are characterized by a strong liveliness.

Compared to cultural memory, communicative memory is characterized by a low degree of formality and shaping.

See also

• Culture of remembrance (dealing with historicity)
• Mythomotor skills (collective action-guiding effect of myths)
• Narrative (in the social sciences, a meaningful narrative for a group or culture)
• Legend of origin (origin myth)
• Founding myth (origin story)
• Explanatory statement (etiology)

literature

• Jan Assmann : The cultural memory : memory and political identity in early high cultures. 7th edition. Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-56844-2 (first published 1992; excerpt in the Google book search).
• Aleida Assmann , Jan Assmann: Yesterday in Today: Media and Social Memory. In: Klaus Merten , Siegfried J. Schmidt , Siegfried Weischenberger (eds.): The reality of the media. An introduction to communication science. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1994, ISBN 3-531-12327-0 , pp. 114-140.
• Aleida Assmann: Spaces of Memory: Forms and Changes in Cultural Memory. 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-50961-4 (first published in 1999; excerpt in the Google book search).
• Aleida Assmann: How true are memories? In: Harald Welzer (Ed.): The social memory. History, memory, transmission. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-930908-66-2 , pp. 103-122.
• Harald Welzer : The communicative memory: A theory of memory. 4th edition. Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70228-0 (first published in 2005; excerpt in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The seven ways to fall into oblivion. In: Derselbe, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (ed.): Forgetting, Displaced, Rejected: On the history of exclusion in sport (= series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya. Volume 21). Lit, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10338-3 , pp. 4-16. Note: The original theory (excluding exercise) is based on Paul Connerton: Seven Types of Forgetting. In: Memory Studies. Volume 1, 2008, pp. 59-71.