“It is present in the city’s community that there are contaminated areas” (B, interview, 21.06.2021)
When asked about how, in their view, the GDR history and the toxic legacy are reflected and remembered today (in German: Aufarbeitung), our interviewees said that it is in general still present in the city’s community. This includes both a regular press cover in local newspapers and the everyday discourse, e.g. conversations about not eating fish out of the Saale river. At the same time all our interlocutors expressed that there is not enough knowledge and scientific analyses about the toxicity in and from the GDR era and about its real health risks. This conforms with our findings in the following chapters, where we tried to find out more about the concrete toxic legacy in and around the plant.
Philip Max Baum, Anastasia Klaar, Fritz Kühlein, Lea Danninger and Johanna Degering, "Today’s state of reflection and remembrance of the toxic legacy of Buna Werke", contributed by , Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 February 2022, accessed 28 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/today’s-state-reflection-and-remembrance-toxic-legacy-buna-werke
Critical Commentary
We conducted interviews with former student workers/interns at Buna Werke Schkopau in order to examine the questions asked in this tour stop/essay. This artefact analyses today’s state of reflection and remembrance of the toxic legacy of Buna Werke.