05919oam 2200721Ia 450 991078842120332120231019201202.03-11-089747-410.1515/9783110897470(CKB)3360000000338621(EBL)3041964(SSID)ssj0000713681(PQKBManifestationID)11374802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713681(PQKBWorkID)10658386(PQKB)11202813(MiAaPQ)EBC3041964(DE-B1597)56902(OCoLC)840442732(OCoLC)948656404(DE-B1597)9783110897470(Au-PeEL)EBL3041964(CaPaEBR)ebr10597806(OCoLC)922944863(EXLCZ)99336000000033862120060726d2006 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVictims and perpetrators, 1933-1945 (re)presenting the past in post-unification culture /edited by Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Dagmar Wienroeder-SkinnerBerlin ;New York W. de Gruyterc20061 online resource (384 pages)Interdisciplinary German cultural studies,1861-8030 ;v. 23-11-018982-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Acknowledgements --Table of Contents --Introduction --History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945 /COHEN-PFISTER, LAUREL / WIENROEDER-SKINNER, DAGMAR --Transgenerational Memory --Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature /ASSMANN, ALEIDA --"Ein Fressen für mein MG": The Problem of German Suffering in Uwe Timm's. Am Beispiel meines Bruders /SATHE, NIKHIL --Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen's Lena and Judith Kuckart's Lenas Liebe /HALVERSON, RACHEL --Air War and German Literature --To Write or Remain Silent? The Portrayal of the Air War in German Literature /HAGE, VOLKER --The Language of Trauma: Dieter Forte's Memories of the Air War /VEES-GULANI, SUSANNE --Writing Dresden Across the Generations /FOX, THOMAS C. --Jewish Victimization: Silence and Remembrance --Breaking the Taboo: Barbara Honigmann's Narrative Quest for a German-Jewish (Family) History /SEGELCKE, ELKE --Α World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara /MARTIN, JAMES --The "Different" Holocaust Memorial in Berlin's Bayerisches Viertel: Personal and Collective Remembrance Thematizing Perpetrator/Victim Relationships /SINKA, MARGIT --Transnational Reconciliation --Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig /GLAJAR, VALENTINA --Acknowledging Each Other as Victims: An Unmet Challenge in the Process of Polish-German Reconciliation /LUTOMSKI, PAWEL --Attempts at (Re)Conciliation: Polish-German Relations in Literary Texts by Stefan Chwin, Pawel Huelle, and Olga Tokarczuk /WIENROEDER-SKINNER, DAGMAR --Historical Consciousness and the German Present --The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfathers' Past /WELZER, HARALD --The Haunted Screen (Again): The Historical Unconscious of Contemporary German Thrillers /PRAGER, BRAD --Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-unification /COHEN-PFISTER, LAUREL --Coming to Terms with Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Walser's Sonntagsrede, the Kosovo War, and the Transformation of German Historical Consciousness /BECKER, DANIEL --Notes on Contributors --Index of NamesThis volume examines the politics of history and memory in Germany today through a review and analysis of seminal developments in the current discourse on 1933 - 1945. An interdisciplinary work, this book examines questions of representing the past from the perspective of literary studies, social psychology, film studies, history, and cultural studies. Themes include transgenerational memory and remembrance, the air war and German literature, commemoration and silences, transnational reconciliation, and historical consciousness in the German present. The collected essays make clear that as the current discourse contributes toward an historically informed, differentiated understanding of individuals' roles in the Third Reich and World War Two, victim and perpetrator identities cannot be defined as exclusive from one another. The discourse emphasizes personal over collective experience and answers questions of responsibility and guilt on the individual level.Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies;2MemoryPolitical aspectsGermanyWorld War, 1939-1945HistoriographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspectsConflict of generationsGermanyHistory20th centuryJews in literatureGermanyCivilizationJewish influencesGermanyRace relationsHistory21st centuryMemoryPolitical aspectsWorld War, 1939-1945Historiography.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspects.Conflict of generationsHistoryJews in literature.943.086072NQ 6020rvkCohen-Pfister Laurel1957-1559940Wienröder-Skinner Dagmar1559941MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788421203321Victims and perpetrators, 1933-19453825530UNINA