{"id":173991,"date":"2026-11-03T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/event\/other-en\/netzwerktreffen-gefaehrlich-gefaehrdet-173991\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:47:45","slug":"dangerously-endangered","status":"publish","type":"event-multi","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/event\/conference-symposium\/dangerously-endangered-173991\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerously Endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Humboldt Forum Foundation and the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship are hosting a networking event titled \u201cDangerously Endangered\u2014The Future of Sites with GDR History\u201d at the Humboldt Forum on February 11\u201312.<\/p>\n

With the symposium \u201cDangerously Endangered \u2013 Reappropriation of Sites with GDR History,\u201d held as part of the program focus \u201cThe Palace of the Republic Is the Present,\u201d the Humboldt Forum Foundation explored the reappropriation of sites with GDR history in February 2025. Even decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these sites continue to raise questions about attitudes, belonging, and social coexistence. Both because of their emotional significance and the demands of contemporary use, they present challenges for both operators and users.<\/p>\n

The symposium brought together and connected people who engage with sites of GDR history in very different ways\u2014in memorials and museums, historic preservation, academia, culture, political education, public administration, or civil society.<\/p>\n

Two years later, the network meeting picks up where those discussions left off: How have the individual projects evolved? What new initiatives and debates have emerged? And what questions are currently on the minds of those who preserve, design, research, interpret, or further develop sites associated with GDR history?<\/p>\n

The network meeting focuses particularly on practical challenges\u2014from questions of monument<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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