Reframing Antifascism [electronic resource] : Memory, Genre and the Life Writings of Greta Kuckhoff /
Sayner, J.author.
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 Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memories of Resistance; Greta Kuckhoff's life events and the 'Red Orchestra'; Memory genres and memory media: An outline of the chapters; Theoretical frames; 1 'The Radio Today Is Our History': Greta Kuckhoff's Radio Broadcasts and Speeches; Returning to remember: Commemorating Adam Kuckhoff; Commentary of the day; Voicing antifascism; Women and the economy; Imagining the community; 2 Fashioning the Self and the Recipient in Letters: Kuckhoff's Correspondence; History writing and the Cold War
The involvement of the StasiA past divided and shared; Letters as political pedagogy; 3 Exhibiting the 'Red Orchestra'; Museum of German history and House of Ministries; Commemorating Adam Kuckhoff in Halle-Wittenberg; Ein Stück Wirklichkeit mehr; Travelling memories; A marginal but insightful form?; 4 From Einheit to Die Weltbühne: Kuckhoff's Journal Articles on Resistance; Neues Deutschland - Tägliche Rundschau - Einheit; Aufbau - Die Weltbühne; Characterizing Die Weltbühne; Writing for Die Weltbühne under Budzislawski's editorship; Dialogue and dogma
5 A Film without a Protagonist? KLK an PTX: Die Rote KapelleTelevising resistance; DEFA's take on the 'Red Orchestra'; Representing Greta Kuckhoff; (Re)Televising the 'Red Orchestra'; The power of the image; 6 From the Rosary to the Nightingale: Memory as Published and Unpublished Autobiography; Vom Rosenkranz zur Roten Kapelle: Comments on the Manuscript of Comrade Greta Kuckhoff; 'When people call me a "Schriftsteller" I get rather shy since I thought I was a good economist'; The unpublished autobiography; Dialogue with a granddaughter; The politics of (auto)biography
Conclusion: Genre and Memory - Repetition as a Way o fKnowingAntifascist identifications; Writing histories; Remembering Greta Kuckhoff; Reframing antifascism; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Kuckhoff, Greta, 1902-1981.
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
History, Modern.
Europe—History.
Europe, Central—History.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Modern History.
European History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Social History.
Cultural History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.