The Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD) stands for curatorial research, practices of remembrance, and participatory cultural work with international partners. The CPPD is a collaborative network and productive platform that works with around 100 artists, scholars, journalists, and activists engaged in and researching plural cultures of remembrance through a broad range of approaches. The network aims to develop and establish a pluralistic European culture of remembrance. The composition of the CPPD highlights and brings together a wide range of activist, academic and artistic perspectives on cultures of remembrance.

At the heart of this work is our conviction that those who seek to shape the present and future in ways that recognise the pluralism of societies must also provide a new narrative of the past. It brings together, among others, the remembrance policy concerns of Sinti*zze, Rom*nja, and many other communities; plural Jewish, postcolonial, and antiracist discourses; as well as migrant, diaspora, and queerfeminist perspectives.

The CPPD uses a variety of event formats and interventions, such as panel discussions, readings, workshops, conferences, etc., provides microgrants to support its members’  emembrance-focused projects, and advises institutions in Germany and across Europe on renewing their contemporary cultures of remembrance. It forges connections with relevant actors in the field of remembrance politics and builds on the achievements of civil society work in Germany and Europe.

Today, the CPPD operates within a network of more than 250 initiatives, institutions, and organisations. The artistic curator of the CPPD is the poet and publicist Dr Max Czollek; Johanna Korneli and Jo Frank lead the programme.

Remembrance culture in Germany and Europe is undergoing a profound transformation. Migration, new digital publics, the rise of populist movements, and ongoing engagement with colonialism and racism are challenging traditional narratives and calling for a more plural, inclusive, and future-oriented perspective on history.

Since its founding in 2021, the CPPD has responded to these challenges with an innovative approach: as a collaborative network, it creates spaces in which diverse social groups work together to explore how to shape remembrance today to foster social cohesion and strengthen democratic values.