Keine Juden* mehr für Deutsche! (No more Jews for Germans!). This was one of the slogans of the Disintegration Congress, which took place at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin in May 2016. The initiators questioned the staging of German reparations in the culture of remembrance and wanted to prevent Jews from being functionalized. The call for disintegration was aimed at marginalised groups in society in order to free themselves from external attributions and imposed identity constructions and to ask about the conditions and possibilities of self-determination. Keine Juden* mehr für Deutsche! was the motto of a new Jewish vitality and a new self-confidence in post-national socialist, post-migrant Germany. 

Ten years after the Disintegration Congress, this evening is once again dedicated to this approach and asks about the state of affairs between anti-Semitism and self-determination: Is there a common denominator of Jewish diversity? In which places is it organized? What role does intersectionality play in the discussion about discrimination and Jewish vitality? And how can the latter assert itself beyond the German theatre of memory (deutsches Gedächtnistheater)? Political consultant Benjamin Fischer, social pedagogue and social scientist Anastassia Pletoukhina, and Mirjam Wenzel, Director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, discuss these issues with the hosts of the series Max Czollek and Ibou Diop. 

The evening takes place in memory of Y. Michal Bodemann. The sociologist provided central impulses for the concept of disintegration with his book Gedächtnistheater. Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung (1996). In 2025, he published the anthology Die erfundene Gemeinschaft. Erinnerungspolitik, Staat und Judentum in Deutschland. Y. Michal Bodemann died on 4 January 2025 at the age of 80.