This intervention into the ongoing evaluation of Kiel 1969 within german-speaking human geography adds a personal voice to those debates. The focus of the paper is on practices defining the Department of Geography at the Technical University Munich during the 1980s. Discussing research and teaching, structures and personalities defining geography at this institution, the paper positions the revolution ostensibly emanating from the 1969 Geographentag in the context of everyday experiences.

Analyzing the development of theoretical debates in geography over the last decades, Peter Weichhart criticizes the growing fragmentation of theoretical discussions in the discipline. Carolin Schurr questions his search for a new center, arguing that many of geography's key concepts have been challenged from the margins of society and the discipline. The future of geographic research lies for both in an increasing engagement with questions of social justice.