Boekpresentatie | Uit de schaduw
De Duitsers 1942-2022
| Activiteit van Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam |
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| Datum: | vrijdag 22 november 2024 om 17:00 uur |
| Locatie: | SPUI25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam / Online |
| Informatie: | Voertaal: Engels. Aanmelden via spui25.nl |
| Toegang: | Gratis |
© De ArbeiderspersIn zijn nieuwe boek 'Uit de schaduw' vertelt historicus Frank Trentmann het dramatische verhaal van de Duitsers vanaf de Tweede Wereldoorlog via de Koude Oorlog tot de val van de Berlijnse Muur en de strijd om een plaats te vinden in de wereld van vandaag. Het is een verhaal van "morele vernieuwing" naar een democratische samenleving en een baanbrekende nieuwe kijk op het moderne Duitsland. Op 22 november bespreken we het boek met de auteur.
De voertaal is Engels.
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor in 2021, Germany looked like the moral voice of Europe, welcoming more than one million refugees, holding together the tenuous threads of the European Union, and making military restraint the center of its foreign policy. At the same time, Germany's rigid fiscal discipline and energy deals with Vladimir Putin have cast a shadow over the present. And recently, regional successes of right wing AfD pose new questions on Germanys political trajectory.
Innumerable scholars have asked how Germany could have degenerated from a nation of scientists, poets, and philosophers into one responsible for genocide. The book "Uit de schaduw" raises another vital question: How did a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvent themselves, and how much?
This journey is marked by a series of extraordinary moral conflicts: admissions of guilt and shame vying with immediate economic concerns; restitution for some but not others; tolerance versus racism; compassion versus complicity.
About the speakers
Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of "Empire of Things" and "Free Trade Nation", among others, and has received several awards including the Humboldt Research Award and the Bochum Historians' Award. He grew up in Hamburg and lives in London.
Krijn Thijs (moderator) is a historian at the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam where he coordinates the DAAD-Graduiertenkolleg and organizes workshops and lectures. He teaches History and Germany Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the modern history of Germany and the Netherlands, with a special interest in transfer and conflict, in historiography and memory, and in contemporary Berlin.
Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam in cooperation with De Arbeiderspers