Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

This workshop report describes a multi-generational study that deals with a previously neglected group – the children of the resistance, i. e. the descendants of people who were part of the political resistance during the Nazi era. Narrative...

The article briefly introduces the history of oral history as a historiographical method. Since the 1980s, oral history of everyday life and experience has given access to ordinary people’s stories which had been dismissed in traditional archival...

The paper locates practical aspects of oral history in the context of the theory of social trauma. In interviews with witnesses of social trauma, the trauma is never limited to the interviewee’s personal history, but encompasses the entire social...

A subgroup of delinquent and deviant clients who are particularly psychosocially and socially burdened cannot be adequately reached by existing pedagogic or psychotherapeutic services. In order to meet this target group in a development-promoting...

The article introduces various concepts of an understanding of trauma extended to include social conditions: ›sequential traumatization‹ (Keilson), ›social mediation‹ (critical psychology) of violence and trauma – and the results of the...

At a time of increasing political uncertainty and crises, in early 2024, the author of this article, a teacher in a Berlin ›welcome class‹, turns to a trauma pedagogy case report from 2015 till 2017. A Syrian-Palestinian pupil in her class had...