The Media of Testimony [electronic resource] : Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic /
Jones, S.author.
The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; A Note on Translations; Introduction: Remembering East Germany: Contested Heritage; Opening of the Stasi files; The trials; Parliamentary Commissions of Enquiry; Ostalgie and eastern identity; The Sabrow Commission; The role of testimony; 1 The Media of Testimony; The ubiquity of the witness: Mediating testimony; From social to media frameworks of memory; Authenticity and authority; The case studies; 2 Literary Autobiography and the Stories That Can't Be Told; Autobiography as a genre; Hermann Kant, Abspann
Sascha Anderson, Sascha AndersonGünter de Bruyn, Vierzig Jahre; Production, reception and authenticity; 3 Fragmented Auto/Biographies: Testifying with Many Voices; The voice of the Stasi; Günter Kunert, Erwachsenenspiele; Jürgen Fuchs, Magdalena; Susanne Schädlich, Immer wieder Dezember; Heike Otto, Beim Leben meiner Enkel; Anthologies of memory: Gefangen in Hohenschönhausen; Remediation and mediated remembering communities; 4 The Importance of 'Being There': Memorial Museums and Living the Past in the Present; Remand prisons of the MfS; Former headquarters of the MfS; Gedenkstätte Bautzen
Memorials: The political frameworkReading memorial museums as multi-authored texts; Memorial museums and authenticity; Auratic places and authentic objects; Past and present: The risks and potential of the prosthetic; Visitor response; Politics, the prosthetic and complementary authenticities; 5 Whose Memory Is It Anyway? Memorial Museums and Modes of Authority; The eyewitness: Authority through subjectivity; The guides of Hohenschönhausen; Identifying with individuals; The archive and the exhibit: The two faces of public history; Recycling memories
The expert: Authentication through objectivityCollisions of the individual and the collective; 6 Documentary Film: Being Moved by Memory; Defining documentary; Victim testimony: Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem and Gesicht zur Wand; Perpetrator testimony: Alltag einer Behörde; The possibility of reconciliation: Feindberührung; Community, authenticity and visual media; Conclusion: Extending the Remembering Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documentary film. Combining theoretical models from diverse disciplines, it presents a new approach to the study of testimony, memory and mediation.
Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
Civilization—History.
Ethnology—Europe.
Historiography.
Political theory.
Motion pictures and television.
Documentary films.
Cultural History.
European Culture.
Memory Studies.
Political Theory.
Screen Studies.
Documentary.