Baader-Meinhof returns : : history and cultural memory of German left-wing terrorism / / edited by Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils.
This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF pas...
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Superior document: | German monitor ; no. 70 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2008. |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English German |
Series: | German Monitor
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) :; illustrations. |
Notes: | Volume consists primarily of papers presented at a 2005 conference on German left-wing terrorism held in Cardiff, September 2005, with later papers added.' |
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Other title: | Preliminary material / Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism / Armed Innocence, or ‘Hitler’s Children’ Revisited / Transgenerational Hauntings: Screening the Holocaust in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 Paintings / Dead Holger / Ulrike Marie Meinhof as Woman and Terrorist: Cultural Discourses of Violence and Virtue / The RAF as Trauma and Pop Icon in Literature since the 1980s / Engendering the Subject of Terror: Friedrich Christian Delius and Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Mid-1980s / Joined at the Hip? The Representation of the German Student Movement and Left-Wing Terrorism in Recent Literature / Christian Geissler: Critical Companion of the Left / Shakespeare’s Children in Dialogue: Erich Fried and Heiner Müller / Terrorism and Theatre in Germany / Reinscribing the German Autumn: Heinrich Breloer’s Todesspiel and the Two Clusters of German ‘Terrorist’ Films / Marking Invisible Memory Visible: Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel’s Black Box BRD / Skyjacking: Cultural Memory and the Movies / Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: Carow’s Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind and Dresen’s Raus aus der Haut / The New Executioners’ Arrival: German Left-Wing Terrorism and the Memory of the Holocaust / Stammheim Forever and the Ghosts of Guantánamo: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Incarceration / Select Bibliography / Notes of Contributors / Photographic Credits / Index / |
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Summary: | This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany’s era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-333) and index. |
ISBN: | 1441691197 9042032154 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils. |