Transformative Listening: An Aesthetic Proposal to Justice - The 2017 NSU Tribunal
Transformative Listening: An Aesthetic Proposal to Justice - The 2017 NSU Tribunal
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Transformative Listening: An Aesthetic Proposal to Justice - The 2017 NSU Tribunal
Transformative Listening: An Aesthetic Proposal to Justice - The 2017 NSU Tribunal
Issue:
Issue:
November 2025
November 2025
Publisher:
Publisher:
Krisis. Journal for contemporary philosophy
Krisis. Journal for contemporary philosophy
DOI:
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.45.1.42346
https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.45.1.42346
Abstract:
Abstract:
This article introduces transformative listening as a political and aesthetic practice of justice, developed from the 2017 NSU Tribunal in Cologne. At its center stood the victims’ relatives and survivors of the racist terror of the neo-Nazi network Nationalsocialist Underground (NSU). Building on and extending Dianne Otto’s (2017) notion of political listening in civil society tribunals, the organizers of the Action Alliance »Unraveling the NSU Complex« shifted the focus from recognition by authority to collective transformation beyond legal settings. In the article, transformative listening is understood as a political and aesthetic practice that disrupts the “order of the audible,“, fosters self-transformation through solidarity, reshapes the institutional imaginary, and aims at social transformation, envisioned as “Society of the Many.” I draw on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and archival material, to show how the practice of transformative listening emerged both as a critical response to the exclusionary and marginalizing dynamics of the official NSU trial in Munich and as an organic outcome of grassroots organizing around Cologne’s Keupstraße.
Keywords:
Keywords:
Transformative Listening – NSU Tribunal – NSU Complex – Justice – Solidarity – Collective Responsibility – Grassroot Politics – Civil Society Tribunals
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Links
Trailer: NSU Tribunal Cologne 2017
Trailer: NSU Tribunal Cologne 2017
NSU Tribunal Social Media
NSU Tribunal Social Media
See also my book:
See also my book:
Wir klagen an! Die NSU-Tribunale als Praxis zwischen Kunst, Recht und Politik
Wir klagen an! Die NSU-Tribunale als Praxis zwischen Kunst, Recht und Politik
A comprehensive analysis of the NSU Tribunals, primarily focused on the first process in Cologne 2017. It gives readers a wealth of knowledge about the concept and organization of the NSU tribunals and their significance within the broader context of international civil society-led tribunals.
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