Although in recent years German historians have been working more intensively on various aspects of the culture of remembrance (especially the politics of remembrance and places of remembrance), research into the didactics of history is still in its infancy. In a programmatic article in the "Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik", Bernd Schönemann pointed out that history didactics "should pay more attention to the medium-range perspectives that have received too little attention from the 'German places of remembrance'".These included studies on "local historical cultures in comparison" and on "regional memory landscapes in their genesis, structure and function" (Bernd Schönemann, Geschichtskultur als Forschungskonzept der Geschichtsdidaktik, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtsdidaktik 2002, pp. 78-86, here p. 83, emphasis added).

This is where my research interests begin. I can build on numerous previous research projects in which I have dealt with the history of the regional homeland movement, regional history research and regional identity politics in the "Lower Saxony area". Taking up these previous approaches, I am currently working on a systematisation of these approaches under the heading of a regional culture of remembrance, with a focus on developments in the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Dietmar von Reeken: Dynamisation or stubbornness? Lower Saxony's homeland movement in the field of tension between preserving tradition, changing values and generational change around and after "1968", in: Lu Seegers (ed.): 1968. Gesellschaftliche Nachwirkungen auf dem Lande (= Kulturlandschaft Schaumburg, vol. 23), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2020, pp. 121-137
• Dietmar von Reeken: A long-cherished wish or an unloved decision? The foundation of the state of Lower Saxony in the field of conflicting interests, in: Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 153 (2017), pp. 47-65
• Dietmar von Reeken: Museum directors as historical-cultural actors? Preparatory reflections on a new field of research, in: Michael Schimek (ed.): Mittendrin. The museum in society. Festschrift for Uwe Meiners, Cloppenburg 2018, pp. 139-144
• Dietmar von Reeken: Heyl, Hindenburg, Hinrichs. Oldenburg conflicts over street names between the interpretation of the past, science and politics, in: Matthias Frese, Marcus Weidner (eds.): Verhandelte Erinnerungen. Dealing with honours, monuments and memorials after 1945 (= Forschungen zur Regionalgeschichte, vol. 82), Paderborn 2018, pp. 291-317
• Dietmar von Reeken: Looking the People in the Historical Mouth. A local historical-cultural conflict and its potential for research, in: Sarah Neumann, Ines Weber, David Weiss (eds.), Ad laudem et gloriam. Festschrift for Rudolf Holbach, Trier 2016, pp. 343-359
• Dietmar von Reeken (with Malte Thießen): Regime of honour. Perspectives, potentials and findings of a research concept, in: This (ed.), Ehrregime. Actors, Practices and Media of Local Honours in the Modern Age (= Forms of Remembrance, vol. 63), Göttingen 2016, pp. 11-29
• Dietmar von Reeken: Geschichtskultur, in: Stefan Brüdermann (ed.): Geschichts Niedersachsens. Vol. 4: From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War, Göttingen: Wallstein 2016, pp. 1347-1393
• Dietmar von Reeken: One state - many regions? State consciousness, state integration and regional culture in Lower Saxony, in: Teresa Nentwig, Christian Werwath (eds.): Politik und Regieren in Niedersachsen, Wiesbaden: Springer 2016, pp. 59-78
• Dietmar von Reeken: From the times of Tacitus to the recent present. Interpretations of the past, diagnoses of the present and expectations of the future in the discourses on Oldenburg's independence after 1945, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 86, 2014, pp. 161-183
• Dietmar von Reeken: The sea as home? Experience, perception, interpretation and remembrance in the regional memory of north-west Germany, in: ibid., 99-113
• Dietmar von Reeken (with Malte Thießen): Regional or local historical cultures? The scope and limits of memory spaces, in: Janina Fuge, Rainer Hering, Harald Schmid (eds.): Gedächtnisräume. Images of history and cultures of remembrance in northern Germany, Göttingen 2014, pp. 71-93
• Dietmar von Reeken: An association as a community of memory. History, present and future in the thoughts and actions of a local history association in the course of the 20th century, in: Christiane Schröder et al. (eds.): Geschichte, um zu verstehen. Traditions, patterns of perception, design perspectives. Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer on his 65th birthday, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 282-295
• Dietmar von Reeken: Regionalisms in conflict. Disputes between "Lower Saxony" and "Westphalia" in the first half of the 20th century, in: Wilfried Reininghaus, Bernd Walter (eds.): Räume - Grenzen - Identitäten. Westphalia as the subject of state and regional historical research, Paderborn et al. 2013, pp. 285-297
• Dietmar von Reeken: "För nedderdüütsch Aart un plattdüütsch Woort". History of the "Ollnborger Kring" 1921-2011, Oldenburg: Isensee Verlag 2012
• Dietmar von Reeken: Striving for continuity and forced change? The Historical Commission in the modernisation processes of the 20th century, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 83, 2011, pp. 75-91
• Dietmar von Reeken: "... formed for the cultivation of state historical research". 100 years of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 1910-2010. With directories on the history of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen compiled by Uwe Ohainski, Hanover 2010 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, 255)
• Dietmar von Reeken: An "inexhaustible source of our national strength"? Dorf, ländlicher Raum und Heimat im 20. Jahrhundert, in: Christine van den Heuvel, Bernd Kappelhoff, Thomas Vogtherr (eds.): Land, Dorf und Kirche. Gemeindebildung vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit in Nordwestdeutschland, Hanover 2009, pp. 169-180
• Dietmar von Reeken: Homeland consciousness, integration and modernisation. The Lower Saxony homeland movement between the founding of the state and the "limits of growth", in: Lower Saxony Yearbook of Regional History 79, 2007, pp. 297-324
• Dietmar von Reeken: Kultur und Kulturpolitik in Oldenburg von der Jahrhundertwende bis 1918, in: Uwe Meiners (ed.), Suche nach Geborgenheit. Heimatbewegung in Stadt und Land Oldenburg, Oldenburg 2002, pp. 8-33
• Dietmar von Reeken: Lower Saxony - a historical invention. Arguments, supporters and opponents of the plans to create a state of "Lower Saxony", in: Jürgen John (ed.), Mitteldeutschland. Concept - Construct - Historical Reality, Leipzig 2001
• Dietmar von Reeken: "The country as a whole!" Integration through Heimatpolitik and regional history in Lower Saxony after 1945, in: Habbo Knoch (ed.), Das Erbe der Provinz. Heimatkultur und Geschichtspolitik nach 1945, Göttingen 2001, pp. 99-116
• Dietmar von Reeken: Ideologie und Pragmatik der ländlichen Heimatbewegung, in: Regionaler Fundamentalismus? History of the Heimat Movement in the Town and Country of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1999, pp. 72-81
• Dietmar von Reeken: Conservative continuity and incipient modernisation: The homeland movement in Lower Saxony 1945 - 1960, in: Bernd Weisbrod (ed.), Von der Währungsreform zum Wirtschaftswunder. Reconstruction in Lower Saxony, Hanover 1998, pp. 57-74
• Dietmar von Reeken: State history and regional identity. Reflections of a historian on the state anniversary of Lower Saxony, in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen 102 (1997), pp. 13-34
• Dietmar von Reeken: Space and history: Ten theses on the relationship between regional history and regional identity at the end of the 20th century, in: Geschichte, Politik und ihre Didaktik 25(1997), pp. 227-229
• Dietmar von Reeken: Wissenschaft, Raum und Volkstum: Historische und gegenwartsbezogene Forschung in und über "Niedersachsen" 1910 - 1945 - Ein Beitrag zur regionalen Wissenschaftsgeschichte, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 68 (1996), pp. 43-90
• Dietmar von Reeken: Heimatbewegung, Kulturpolitik und Nationalsozialismus. The history of the "Ostfriesische Landschaft" 1918 - 1949, Aurich: Verlag der Ostfriesischen Landschaft 1995