‘Mind the Next Flood!’ Memories of Natural Disasters in Northern Germany from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

摘要: Floods and storm-tides have been—and continue to be—a regular feature of the daily life small rural communities on coasts North Sea in Northern Germany Low Countries. This article examines cultural strategies evolved within these as part their response catastrophe ever-present danger. Practices communication memorialising are one important way coping—for they transport a specific memoria disaster experiences, that has stabilising function. The takes longue duree perspective, extending from sixteenth beginning twenty-first century, order grasp dynamics by which collective memories crystallise into ‘culture disaster’. It different media creation memory unique ‘amphibian societies’ Germany.