As part of the lecture series „Grenzen, Umbrüche, Transformationen: Künste und Kulturen vor und nach 1989/90“ (Borders, Upheavals, Transformations: Arts and Cultures Before and After 1989/90), which is taking place this summer semester at the University of Leipzig in cooperation with the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Professor Raj Kollmorgen will give his lecture "Ex/Post oder: Das (diskursive) Erbe der Einheit in der (Post-)Transformation“ (The (Discursive) Legacy of Unity in (Post-)Transformation) on the Augustusplatz campus in Lecture Hall 12. He will address current discourses (in academia, the mass media, fiction, etc.) on East Germany, German unity and the present challenges that refer to the past. Without a reconstruction of the transformative break of 1989, the early logic of unification and the resulting formation of discourse, not only do the contributions, conflict constellations and strategies for action in German-German discourses remain unclear or misleading to this day. Without a historical perspective, it is also difficult to adequately explain the patterns of perception and judgment in the debate about shaping the present and the future—between "transformation fatigue", "East German skepticism toward democracy" and a particular “East German competence for transformation”. The lecture explores this terrain and proposes a historical-sociological approach to interpretation.