SALON LUITPOLD | Was bleibt von einem Leben | Über das Erzählen des eigenen Lebens mit Barbara Rabaioli-Fischer & Jochen Metzger

The Art of Remembering – Biographical Work and Life Review with Barbara Rabaioli-Fischer & Jochen Metzger/Psychologie heute

It is our memories that run like fine lines through our present—some clear and supportive, others fragile, painful, or long repressed. From them, we shape the story of our lives—and sometimes also the questions that continue to haunt us.

Biographical work and life reviews invite us to pause: to look anew at the past, to transform burdensome experiences, and to bring hidden strengths back into view. They open up a space where memory becomes understanding—and where understanding may lead to something like reconciliation.

Together with Barbara Rabaioli-Fischer, whose latest work has been published by Hogrefe Verlag, we will explore this quiet, powerful work on one’s own life. Her approach combines scholarly depth with great human sensitivity and demonstrates how memory can have an impact not only on the past but also on the future. Barbara Rabaioli-Fischer is a psychologist and psychotherapist. In her work, she combines research on memory and identity with many years of therapeutic practice and guides people in gaining a new understanding of their life stories. Joining her is Jochen Metzger, a journalist who has been covering social and psychological topics for many years with a keen sense of nuance. His interviews are characterized by attentiveness, precision, and a special closeness to the stories being told. Jochen Metzger is a journalist and author. In his work, he focuses in particular on questions of personality, memory, and social change.

An evening about what was—and about how we can learn to see it differently. About telling one’s own life story—and about how memory can become a source of guidance.