PUBLIC AND PARTICIPATORY
Every place and story in this project comes from conversations with people who live in Weimar, whom I met through friends and through people working in the city.
History is an essential tool, but it is not a collection of certainties. That is why I have chosen oral transmission here, privileging remembrance over factual precision as the way the material was gathered. The project makes no claim to correct or rebalance the official record. It sets out instead to provoke curiosity, to confront that record with its omissions, and, more broadly, to ask how history and memory are built in the first place.
The stories were told to me in German and are reproduced here through the help — and the inevitable difficulties — of translation. For the project they have been pared down to their essentials. It is an unfair process, and within it I have tried to stay as close as possible to each original telling.