The 2017 NSU Tribunal showed how transformative listening and aesthetic practices enabled new forms of political agency, solidarity, and collective justice beyond the courtroom.
December 2025
Civil Society Tribunals raise foundational questions: Who owns the law? Who has the authority to shape it? And what happens when official institutions abdicate their responsibility – can civil society establish alternative forums grounded in legal principles?
September 2025
Parallel to the NSU trial in Munich, a civil society tribunal was established in Cologne. This tribunal provided a solidaristic platform for those affected by the NSU's racist terrorism to demand justice and the right to the truth that state authorities and society had denied them.
September 2023
KUPFzeitung Kulturmagazin Oberösterreich, #184/2022
The Cologne NSU Tribunal is a prime example of justice as a civil society responsibility. Madlyn Sauer outlines what our current judiciary could learn from NSU tribunals in general.The Cologne NSU Tribunal is a prime example of justice as a civil society responsibility. Madlyn Sauer outlines what our current judiciary could learn from NSU tribunals in general.
December 2022