Das Buch untersucht eine Reihe von Erinnerungsgegenständen und deren kulturhistorisch wechselnde Formen, von den frühen zionistischen Filmen zu zeitgenössischen Hollywood-Produktionen, von TV Dokumentationen zu autobiographischen Experimenten, vom Mainstream-Theater zur Avantgarde Performance, und gibt somit einen Einblick in die Signifikanz, Komplexitäten und Vieldeutigkeiten der Erinnerungspolitiken. Dabei plädiert es dafür, Transgression als kulturelle Praxis zu verstehen, sei es auf der Ebene des Mediums selbst oder der Ebene seiner kritischen Analyse.
Biographisches:
Apfelthaler, Vera, Dr., is head of the Center for German Studies and senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and a DAAD fellow. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. Her thesis on feminist American Performance Art has been published under the title
The Performance of the Body – The Body of Performance (Bonn 2001). She worked as assistant professor at the theatre department in Mainz and published several articles in performance studies, gender studies and 19th century culture. She is currently working on a project about concepts of memory in Israeli and German Theatre.
Köhne, Julia B., Dr., is assistant professor (Universitätsassistentin) at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Institute for Contemporary History of the University of Vienna since 2005. She studied culture studies and German literature in Cologne and Berlin. After writing her M.A. thesis on
The Genius as a legitimizing figure of Modern Knowledge, she held a DFG scholarship within the graduate group
Codierung von Gewalt im medialen Wandel [Encoding Violence in Medial Transformation] at Humboldt-University Berlin. Her doctoral thesis with the title
War Hysterics. Strategic Images and Medial Techniques of Military Psychiatrist's Knowledge, 1914-1920 will be published in 2007. Besides various articles on film studies, gender studies, and the history of science, she co-edited the anthology
Splatter Movies. Essays on the Modern Horror Film. Berlin 2006 [2005].