Be it the Hanseatic League, the Bismarck monument in Hamburg or the Battle of Dybbøl - Northern Germany hosts a number of places of remembrance out of whose complex stratifications identity structures emerged in the federal states of Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein. The authors of this volume enquire into these places of memory in Northern Germany, looking into the multi-layered connections between places, actors and recollections - and into blank spaces of remembrance. They are concerned with how themes and mechanisms of remembrance interlock and thus weave local and regional narratives into a complete picture. The mutual shaping and dependencies of space and memory has become a commonplace notion since the "spatial turn" in cultural studies; this anthology is the first to address this guiding theme and in such breadth for the northern German states.

Janina Fuge, M.A., arbeitet als Projektmanagerin in einer Hamburger Karriereberatung sowie als freie Journalistin. Prof. DDr. Rainer Hering leitet das Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein und lehrt Neuere Geschichte und Archivwissenschaft in Hamburg und Kiel. Dr. Harald Schmid ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Bürgerstiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Gedenkstätten.