Remembering Rosenstrasse : history, memory and identity in contemporary Germany / Hilary Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Hilary (Hilary Jane), author.

Series:

German life and civilization ; v. 64.

German Life and Civilization ; vol. 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosenstrasse Protest, Berlin, Germany, 1943.

Rosenstrasse Protest, Berlin, Germany, 1943--Anniversaries, etc.

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence.

Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Jews.

History.

Anniversaries.

Germany--Berlin.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Peter Lang Ltd, [2018]

Summary:

In February 1943 intermarried Germans gathered in Berlin's Rosenstrasse to protest the feared deportation of their Jewish spouses. This book examines the competing representations of the Rosenstrasse protest in contemporary Germany, demonstrating how cultural memories of this event are intertwined with each other and with concepts of identity. It analyses these shifting patterns of memory and what they reveal about the dynamics of the past-present relationship from the earliest post-unification period up to the present day. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book provides insights into the historical debate surrounding the protest, accounts in popular history and biography, an analysis of von Trotta's 2003 film Rosenstrasse, and an exploration of the multiple memorials to this historical event. The study reveals that the protest's remembrance is fraught with competing desires: to have a less encumbered engagement with this past and to retain a critical memory of the events that allows for a recognition of both heroism and accountability. It concludes that we are on the cusp of witnessing a new shift in remembering that reflects contemporary socio-political tensions with the resurgence of the far right, noting how this is already becoming visible in existing representations of the Rosenstrasse protest.

Contents:

Rosenstrasse today looking towards Anna-Louisa Karsch Strasse

The three central sections of Ingeborg Hunzinger's Block der Frauen

Block der Frauen

The reverse of the fractured bloc and inscription

The musician

The topography of terror's permanent on-site Rosenstrasse exhibition

Rosenstrasse towards Alexanderplatz

Section of Ingeborg Hunzinger's sculpture daubed in graffiti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.

ISBN:

9783034319171

3034319177

OCLC:

1027834459

Publisher Number:

99980753473