Publications (Selection)

2009

With Claus Leggewie: Go to external side 'fischerverlage.de' „Das Ende der Welt, wie wir sie kannten"

For years mega crises have been building up and yet they easily escaped our perception. We feel comforted by our high standards of living and too readily give in to the illusion that all our problems will eventually be solved somehow. In reality, climate change, shrinking energy resources, pollution, decreasing food production and population growth are strong indicators that we can not continue like this forever.

We experience that our habits exceed the possibilities the capitalist system can provide. The financial crisis has taught us that we can not and we will not continue like we did before. Are Western democracies able to modernize and prepare for the future? Is it possible to change a system that is based on continuuous growth to an economic and social system that builds on justice and quality of life instead? The future of democracy depends on the end of our illusion that the current system could continue to work in a globalized world.

2008

Klimakriege. Wofür im 21. Jahrhundert getötet wird. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.

2007

Der Krieg der Erinnerung. Holocaust, Kollaboration und Widerstand im europäischen Gedächtnis (Hg.). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer.

2006

The collatoral damage of enlightenment: How grandchildren understand the history of national socialist crimes and their grandfather's Past. In: Laurel Cohen-Pfister & Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner (eds.). Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945. (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unificaton Culture. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.

Warum Menschen sich erinnern können. Fortschritte der interdisziplinären Gedächtnisforschung (mit H.J. Markowitsch). Stuttgart: Go to external side 'klett-cotta.de' Klett-Cotta.

2005

„Grandpa Wasn’t a Nazi: Nazism and the Holocaust in German Family Remembrance“.
Berlin: AJC.

„Das autobiographische Gedächtnis. Hirnorganische Grundlagen und biosoziale Entwicklung“ (mit H.J. Markowitsch). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

„Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden.“ Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer.

2002

“’Opa war kein Nazi’. Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis“ (mit S. Moller u. K. Tschuggnall) Frankfurt/M: S. Fischer.

„Das kommunikative Gedächtnis. Eine Theorie der Erinnerung“ (Communicative Memory). München: Beck.

2001

“Das soziale Gedächtnis. Geschichte, Erinnerung, Tradierung”. (“Social memory. Memory, history, tradition”). Hamburg: Hamburger Edition.