By Helmut SCHMITZ (Editor), Helmut SCHMITZ
The re-emergence of the difficulty of wartime pain to the fore of German public discourse represents the best shift in German reminiscence tradition because the Historikerstreit of the Eighties. The (international) awareness and debates brought on by way of, for instance, W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur, G??nter Grass's Im Krebsgang, J?¶rg Friedrich's Der model testify to a transformation in concentration clear of the sufferers of nationwide Socialism to the worrying event of the 'perpetrator collective' and its legacies. the quantity brings jointly German, English and Israeli literary and picture students and historians addressing concerns surrounding the illustration of German wartime struggling with the quick post-war interval to the current in literature, movie and public commemorative discourse. cut up into 4 sections, the quantity discusses the illustration of Germans as sufferers in post-war literature and movie, the present reminiscence politics of the Bund der Vertriebenen, the general public commemoration of the air raids on Hamburg and Dresden and their illustration in movie, images, historiography and literature, the impression and reception of W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur, the illustration of flight and expulsion in modern writing, the matter of empathy in representations of Germans as sufferers and the illustration of ache and nationwide Socialism in Oliver Hirschbiegel's movie Der Untergang. desk of Contents** Introduction:** Helmut SCHMITZ: The go back of Wartime soreness in modern German reminiscence tradition, Literature and Film** 1. The Post-War Period** Gregor STREIM: Germans within the Lager. reviews and Narratives approximately Imprisonment in Post-War Allied Internment Camps** Hans-Joachim HAHN: 'Die, von denen guy erz?¤hlt hat, dass sie die kleinen Kinder schlachten.' Deutsche**Leiderfahrung und Bilder von Juden in der deutschen Kultur nach 1945. Zu einigen Texten Wolfgang Weyrauchs** Helen WOLFENDEN: The illustration of Wehrmacht infantrymen as sufferers in Post-War German Fi
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194. html. Aleida Assmann refers in this context to the ‘Knoppisierung der Vergangenheit, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit, p. 214. , German Literature in the Age of Globalisation, Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2004, pp. 229-246 (here: p. 237). Aleida Assmann speaks of a ‘transnationale Erinnerungsgemeinschaft’ that establishes the Holocaust in western states as a common point of reference, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit, p. 272. e. collective losses are remembered as victims, rather than national scarifices.
78-79. 71 This has remained the discursive praxis of the far right and the League of Expellees until today. In January 2005 the twelve members of the neo-Nazi party NPD in the regional parliament of Saxony left their seats in protest during a minute’s silence for the victims of Nazi violence. During a debate on the bombing of Dresden, the NPD section used the term ‘Bomben-Holocaust’. 72 Assmann, ‘On the (In)Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory,’ p. 186. 73 Niven, Germans as Victims, p.
49, footnote 12. 65 On the Christian tradition of victimology see Assmann, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit, pp. 72ff. ’ Germans as Victims, p 16. 66 Frei, 1945 und Wir, p. 10, Assmann, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit, speaks of an ‘ethische Wende des Erinnerns’, pp. 76ff. 67 For a list of examples see my ‘The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy,’ in Niven, Germans as Victims, pp. 93-108. See also Samuel Salzborn’s, Bill Niven’s, Heinz-Peter Preußer’s and Annette Seidel Arpacı’s chapters in this volume.
