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This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s.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