Published by De Gruyter

Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung

Edited by: Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning

ISSN: 2629-2858

e-ISSN 2629-2866

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Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die ‘neuen’ digitalen Medien, Intermedialität, Transmedialität und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der medialisierte Erinnerung gehören zu den Forschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine Plattform für die deutschsprachige Medien- und Gedächtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im Peer-review-Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.

Author / Editor information

Astrid Erll, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Ansgar Nünning, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Book 2024

Postmemory und die Transformation der deutschen Erinnerungskultur

Christine Meyer, Anna Gvelesiani

Volume 11 in this series

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This volume investigates how German-language postmemory narratives are helping to renew national memory discourse. It examines works produced since 1989 that are located on the threshold between document and fiction. By searching for (auto-)biographical traces, and carrying out archaeological excavation and detective investigation, these works are both a medium and reflection of the pluralization of remembering.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783803
ISBN:: 9783110783803
ISBN:: 9783110783865
ISBN:: 9783110783780
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Holocaust
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2024

Emotionen in der postkolonialen Erinnerungspolitik

Deutschland und Frankreich seit den 1990er Jahren

Sahra Rausch

Volume 10 in this series

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Emotions such as guilt, shame, and remorse are often invoked to justify coming to terms with historical crimes. Taking the Algerian War in France and the genocide of the OvaHerero and Nama in Germany as examples, this book analyzes how emotions are discursively produced in postcolonial memory politics and how these enable or prevent a recognition of the "suffering of the Other".

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111018683
ISBN:: 9783111018683
ISBN:: 9783111018485
ISBN:: 9783111018942
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Emotions
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Colonial and Postcolonial History
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Political Sociology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2023

Buchenwald

Zur europäischen Textgeschichte eines Konzentrationslagers

Stephan Pabst

Volume 9 in this series

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Buchenwald concentration camp was an international event. During the seven years that it existed, people from 30 nations were deported there, and after 1945, texts about the camp were written in the majority of the languages that they spoke. This volume conveys an impression of the camp’s reach in European literature by looking at the few canonical texts by writers like Apitz, Semprún, Kertész, Adler, and Antelme, but also going beyond them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770179
ISBN:: 9783110770179
ISBN:: 9783110770278
ISBN:: 9783110770117
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Holocaust
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Holocaust
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Mikrogeschichten der Erinnerungskultur

"Am grünen Strand der Spree" und die Remedialisierung des Holocaust by bullets

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

Volume 8 in this series

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Who constructs memory culture? What kind of impact do conceptions of history have on their users? What kind of infrastructure activates cultural memory? In three microhistorical studies, this volume examines Through the Night as a novel, audio play, and TV series (1955–1960) to ask how memories of the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during the Second World War circulated in the Federal Republic of Germany.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110745528
ISBN:: 9783110745528
ISBN:: 9783111353111
ISBN:: 9783110745566
ISBN:: 9783110633672
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Holocaust
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Der Erste Weltkrieg im filmischen Gedächtnis

Kulturelles Trauma und Transnationale Erinnerung in Europa und dem Nahen Osten

Michael Elm

Volume 7 in this series

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This monograph examines the development of television and cinema productions on the centenary of the First World War from the perspectives of cultural memory, trauma theory, and film theory. It traces genre patterns and the historical development of First World War films and explores the ways in which the violent history of the war is coded cinematically. The corpus includes not only films made around the centenary of the war, but also in the period leading up to it, between 1989 and 2013. As one major result, the monograph points out new cinematic developments that occurred during the centenary period. With its regional focus on films that deal with the war in the former Ottoman Empire and in Europe, the study seeks to determine whether the war, often regarded as a 'seminal catastrophe' in European memory, is remembered differently in the Middle East. It argues that the complex history of First World War remembrance gave rise to new aesthetical coding of violence and an accompanying moral grammar of memory, which, however, differs considerably in its historical content between Europe and the Middle East.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654431
ISBN:: 9783110654431
ISBN:: 9783110653519
ISBN:: 9783110653571
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: World War I
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2021

Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen

Geschichtspolitik zwischen der ‚Anrufung Europas‘ und dem Fokus auf ‚unser‘ Leid

Ljiljana Radonić, FWF, ERC Consolidator Grant

Volume 6 in this series

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This volume is the first to examine the museum landscape of all post-socialist EU member states. How do museums present the Second World War, the Holocaust, and Soviet crimes? As part of their nations’ attempts to join the EU, some "invoke" Europe, aiming to prove their Europeanness by adopting international museification trends. Others demand that "Europe" recognizes their suffering under Soviet rule as the greater evil.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722055
ISBN:: 9783110722055
ISBN:: 9783111263618
ISBN:: 9783110722239
ISBN:: 9783110714814
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: World War II
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Archives and Museums
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Die Shoah im Comic seit 2000

Erinnern zeichnen

Thomas Merten

Volume 5 in this series

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How will future generations commemorate the Holocaust when the last eyewitnesses have died? Comic books published in the past few years suggest that: while the children are still trying to understand – and emancipate themselves from – their parents’ past, the generation of the grandchildren is keenly aware of the fact that everything they know about the Holocaust is passed on to them or is conveyed through the media.　　

Comic book authors from the grandchildren’s generation frame the events of the Holocaust either by positioning themselves as historical narrators, or by setting their plots in the present, where the Holocaust is only manifest through traces and consequences. By doing so, they bring the past to bear on the present, implicitly criticizing representations that keep the Holocaust at a distance. Recent comics, in other words, no longer narrate the Holocaust as a supposedly distant past, but rather explore its effects and parallels in the present. This allows them to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust for generations who no longer have a personal connection to it, and in this way, to do important work against oblivion.

By comparing comic books by authors from both the children’s and the grandchildren’s generation, such as Michel Kichka, Bernice Eisenstein, Rutu Modan, Barbara Yelin and Reinhard Kleist, this book shows that panels, images, and speech bubbles can help those too young to experience or commemorate the Holocaust come to terms with what had happened.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712001
ISBN:: 9783110712001
ISBN:: 9783110712087
ISBN:: 9783110694994
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: Holocaust
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Graphic Novel
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2021

Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa

Lena Dorn, Marek Nekula, Václav Smyčka

Volume 4 in this series

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This volume examines memory narratives in literature, television, film, photography, and museum exhibitions that, firstly, take a transmedial approach and, secondly, narrate and de/construct the past or pasts in Central Europe in different ways, nationally and/or transnationally. It also discusses the connections between various media and questions understandings of the trans-/national.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679
ISBN:: 9783110717679
ISBN:: 9783110717730
ISBN:: 9783110717587
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Public History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten

Eva Binder, Christof Diem, Miriam Finkelstein, Sieglinde Klettenhammer, Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner, Marijana Milošević, Julia Pröll

Volume 3 in this series

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This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers literature written after 1989, leveraging concepts of dialogical and multidirectional memory to facilitate differentiated perspectives in the politics of memory regarding the highly charged figure of the victim.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693461
ISBN:: 9783110693461
ISBN:: 9783110693485
ISBN:: 9783110673593
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Ko-Erinnerung

Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoah-Gedenkens

Daniela Henke, Tom Vanassche

Volume 2 in this series

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In this volume, 18 authors seek to answer the question of whether the memory of genocide, persecution, and structural violence can contribute to solidarity between different groups of victims, and what the epistemological and ethical boundaries of such commemoration might be. The contributions focus on the new Shoah remembrance in a century already marked by incipient geopolitical and biopolitical changes of considerable magnitude.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110622706
ISBN:: 9783110622706
ISBN:: 9783111130255
ISBN:: 9783110621600
ISBN:: 9783110621433
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Zwischen Nation und Europa

Nationalmuseen als Europamedien

Sarah Czerney

Volume 1 in this series

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Is it possible to narrate a national history that is at the same time European? Europe’s national museums must face this challenge. Using three examples from Germany, France, and Poland, the book takes a media science perspective to examine how museums are constructing Europe. What narratives of Europe and its history are they developing? And what does "Europe" and "European" mean for these museums?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110603781
ISBN:: 9783110603781
ISBN:: 9783110762938
ISBN:: 9783110548501
ISBN:: 9783110603903
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Society
Subject:: Memory
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Archives and Museums
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter