Reframing Antifascism

Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta Kuckhoff
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-36875-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4777 g

Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sayner, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memories of Resistance 1. 'The Radio Today is Our History': Greta Kuckhoff's Radio Broadcasts and Speeches 2. Fashioning the Self and the Recipient in Letters: Kuckhoff's Correspondence 3. Exhibiting the 'Red Orchestra' 4. From Einheit to Die Weltbuhne: Kuckhoff's Journal Articles on Resistance 5. A Film without a Protagonist? KLK an PTX: Die Rote Kapelle 6. From the Rosary to the Nightingale: Memory as Published and Unpublished Autobiography Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Sayner is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published on German women's writing and the politics of remembering the GDR and Nazi pasts. Her previous book Women Without a Past?: German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism was published in 2007.