Edinburgh German Yearbook 9 - Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture

Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945.

List of contents

Introduction
Between Preservation and Destruction: Bernd and Hilla Becher's Archive of "Anonymous Sculpture"
Janos Frecot, Photographic Archives, and the Zero Hours of Berlin
Saving the Present: Anselm Kiefer as Self-Archivist
Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive
Turkish-German Comedy Goes Archival: Alamanya-Willkommen in Deutschland (2011)
Echoes from the Archive: Retrieving and Re-viewing Cinematic Remnants of the Nazi Past
Harun Farocki's Critical Film Archive
Preserving the Self: Constructs of Memory and Biography in the Works of Jürgen Fuchs
Disruptions of the Archive: Renegotiating German History in Autobiographical Fiction after 1989
Verbalizing Silence and Sorting Garbage: Archiving Experiences of Displacement in Recent Post-Yugoslav Fictions of Migration by Sasa Stanisic and Adriana Altaras

About the author

Dora Osborne

Product details

• Authors: Dora Osborne
• Assisted by: Dora Osborne (Editor), Dora Osbourne (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9781571139238
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-923-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Edinburgh German Yearbook
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet