Baader-Meinhof returns : : history and cultural memory of German left-wing terrorism / / edited by Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils.

• Superior document: German monitor ; no. 70
• TeilnehmendeR: Berendse, Gerrit-Jan, 1959-; Cornils, Ingo.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English; German
• Series: German Monitor 70.
• 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.'

This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s.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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Baader-Meinhof Returns -- Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism / Gerrit-Jan Berendes and Ingo Cornils -- Armed Innocence, or ‘Hitler’s Children’ Revisited / Gerd Koenen -- Transgenerational Hauntings: Screening the Holocaust in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 Paintings / Eric Kligerman -- Dead Holger / Carrie Collenberg -- Ulrike Marie Meinhof as Woman and Terrorist: Cultural Discourses of Violence and Virtue / Sarah Colvin -- The RAF as Trauma and Pop Icon in Literature since the 1980s / Sabine von Dirke -- Engendering the Subject of Terror: Friedrich Christian Delius and Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Mid-1980s / Charity Scribner -- Joined at the Hip? The Representation of the German Student Movement and Left-Wing Terrorism in Recent Literature / Ingo Cornils -- Christian Geissler: Critical Companion of the Left / Sven Kramer -- Shakespeare’s Children in Dialogue: Erich Fried and Heiner Müller / Gerrit-Jan Berendse -- Terrorism and Theatre in Germany / Birgit Haas -- Reinscribing the German Autumn: Heinrich Breloer’s Todesspiel and the Two Clusters of German ‘Terrorist’ Films / Julian Preece -- Marking Invisible Memory Visible: Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel’s Black Box BRD / Chirs Homewood -- Skyjacking: Cultural Memory and the Movies / Annette Vowinckel -- Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: Carow’s Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind and Dresen’s Raus aus der Haut / Gabriele Mueller -- The New Executioners’ Arrival: German Left-Wing Terrorism and the Memory of the Holocaust / Ewout van der Knaap -- Stammheim Forever and the Ghosts of Guantánamo: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Incarceration / Jeremy Varon -- Select Bibliography / Editors Baader-Meinhof Returns -- Notes of Contributors / Editors Baader-Meinhof Returns -- Photographic Credits / Editors Baader-Meinhof Returns -- Index / Editors Baader-Meinhof Returns.