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  • Chapter 5 - Memorial Restitution

  • Laura Petersen, University of Lucerne
  • Book:
    Practices of Restitution
    Published online:
    19 December 2025
    Print publication:
    22 January 2026, pp 169-218
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    This chapter imposes the structure of a walking tour of Berlin’s memorial art onto the text, continuing to stage moments of individual viewing of art. My argument about the material practices of taking responsibility for restitution is turned into a grounded methodology: a shoe-on-the-footpath mode of writing. Beginning in Bebelplatz, I visit recent responses to the past as they are represented in memorial art in different areas of Berlin, including the national Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe. I visit Schöneberg where the Places of Remembrance memorial consists of signs of law from the NS regime mounted in the streetscape. I also analyse Gunter Demnig’s Stumbling-stones, which are small memorial stones set into the footpath. This chapter is a plaidoyer for paying attention to the way we craft and take responsibility for our legal landscapes through our conduct – our movement and posture – resulting from our interaction with the street and its objects.