MEMORY AND (DISSEMI) NATION - VOLKERSCHLACHTDENKMAL AND DEUTSCHE-BUCHEREI AT LEIPZIG 1813 1913 BETWEEN REAL BONES AND SYMBOLIC LETTERS/

At Leipzig, the monument to the victorious battle against Napoleon in 1813 was inaugurated one hundred years after the event. The article ra ises the questions: how far is the authority of the monument dependent on material relies (bones) and what correspondences are there between symbolic commemoration and the infrastructure of national memory as r epresented by the neighbouring German Library at Leipzig. The dimensio n of 'sacred space and time' is set against the hardware of agencies o f memory, while an archaeological perception serves methodologically a s a challenge to historical discourse in processing the material or te xtual archives of the past.