Remembering Rosenstrasse: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Germany

by Hilary Potter

Overview

In February 1943 intermarried Germans gathered in the now famous 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 concepts of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034319171
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/31/2018
Series:	German Life and Civilization , #64
Edition description:	New
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hilary Potter holds a PhD in German Cultural Studies from the University of Bath. She teaches at the University of Leeds and previously taught at Cardiff University. Her research has also been published in the edited volume Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (2010).

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Remembering Rosenstraße – The Rosenstraße Protest in Context – «Der eigentliche Streitwert»: The Rosenstraße Protest in Historical Debate – Changing (West) German Histories? Gernot Jochheim’s Protest in der Rosenstraße – Competing Biographical Memories: Nina Schröder’s Hitlers unbeugsame Gegnerinnen – From Screenplay to the Cinema Screen: Memory and Identity in Transition in Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstraße (2003) – Memorialisation in Rosenstraße: A Microcosm of Patterns of Remembering – Multiple Layers of Memory: Looking Towards Future Remembering.