Memory and the Courtroom

This panel discusses the occurrence or non-occurrence of court trials and the connection between legal proceedings and society’s collective memory processes. The question of collective memory as treated in literature will be explored by literary and media scholar Peter Seibert in conversation with authors Gila Lustiger, Erich Hackl and Ilija Trojanow. All three have dealt in their novels and stories with historical examples of regime violence and persecution and described the consequences of this on the lives of individuals and society at large.