Susanne Siegert is one of the most prominent voices in Germany’s digital culture of remembrance. On Instagram and TikTok, she focuses primarily on educating people about the Holocaust and has over 190,000 followers on her channel @keine.erinnerungskultur.
In her new book, ‘Gedenken neu denken. Wie sich unser Erinnern an den Holocaust verändern muss’, published by Piper-Verlag, she calls for a multidimensional change in remembrance work. She advocates for a pluralistic culture of remembrance that actively considers the responsibility of the descendants of the perpetrator generation. This involves not only the well-known stories, but also the less well-known aspects of the Nazi past. Susi shows how important a more active and diverse culture of remembrance is in order to reach future generations, even without direct eyewitness accounts.
Through her commitment, she not only wants to inform, but also to encourage reflection and promote a broader engagement with history.
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This podcast episode was produced in cooperation with Nicole Schweiß’s kleiner Pause podcast.
In ERINNERUNGSFUTUR, scientists, artists, journalists and activists report on their work and perspectives on cultures of remembrance in Germany and Europe. The series is part of the DialoguePerspectives e.V. podcast.
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Speakers: Nicole Schweiß & Susanne Siegert; Editorial team: Hannah Blumas, Angela Mani, Nihal Çalışır; Audio-Edit: Gal Yaron Mayersohn; Film Glitch by Snowflake ©2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license; Illustration: Rosa Viktoria Ahlers; Kurator*innen: Jo Frank, Johanna Korneli, Max Czollek | © 2025 DialoguePerspectives e.V. | http://www.cppdnetwork.com
