Tilman Walther lives and works in Hamburg as an artist, author, and curator. He writes and speaks on participation and inclusion in museum cultural production and on historical and victim narratives in the early Federal Republic of Germany. Artistically and academically, he examines built urban space as a place of historical narrative, social self-expression, and collective mourning. Since 2020, Tilman Walther, together with Nina Lucia Groß, has been directing Freiraum at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg as a space for participation and discourse. Since 2020, Tilman Walther, together with Nina Lucia Groß, has been directing Freiraum at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg as a space for participation and discourse. Together with their team, they design and curate a program of events and discourse on political and cultural education in the Freiraum. The focus is on questions of (co-)shaping coexistence, historiography, and a shared present.