After the Dresden Bombing [electronic resource] : Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present /
Fuchs, A.author.
Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Destruction of Dresden and the Excess of the Real; Topographies and templates; Facts and symbols; Impact events and impact narratives; Media and genres; 2 Visual Mediations: Dresden in Postwar Photography and Fine Art; Shooting the end of the war: Germany's ruination in Allied photography; Pictures after our own death: Richard Peter's Eine Kamera klagt an; The serialisation of destruction: Wilhelm Rudolph's Das zerstörte Dresden
Towards a socialist future: celebrating the city's 750th anniversaryFrom remediation to premediation: the city's Festschrift; Coffee table books and nostalgic revisionism: Fritz Löffler's Das alte Dresden; Conclusion; 3 Architectural Interventions I: West and East German Postwar Debates; Taking stock: Germany's ruination - the end of the Kulturnation?; West German modernist debates: embracing renewal; East German development: from modernism to the Sixteen Principles; Conclusion; 4 Architectural Interventions II: Dresden's Altmarkt and the Topology of Power
Dresden 1945: from fortress Dresden to Ground ZeroPolitical lessons: from a multi-party intermezzo to SED rule; The necessary process of learning; Staging power: in search of a central square; The Altmarkt story continued: the staging of consent; Postscript: Prager Straße - from the rediscovery of modernism to global capitalism; 5 Literary Voices I: The Built Environment and Memoryscapes in Brigitte Reimann and Uwe Tellkamp; The contested meaning of place; Production stories: new departures in architecture and literature; In search of a socialist street: Hoyerswerda, Berlin and Dresden
Topographies of memory and new beginnings: Brigitte Reimann's Franziska LinkerhandFrom restorative nostalgia to revolutionary upheaval: Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm; Conclusion: 'can one kiss in Hoyerswerda?'; 6 Literary Voices II: War Memories in Kurt Vonnegut, Heinz Czechowski and Durs Grünbein; Cultural templates and the calibration of trauma; Slaughterhouse-Five: a carnivalesque Dance of Death; The suffering of animals; German critics and the quest for discursive distance; Durs Grünbein: from Dresdengrad to Pompeii; Precursors: Heinz Czechowski and the experiential generation
Generational affiliation and distance in Grünbein's PorzellanConclusion; 7 Filmic Representations: Documenting Resentment, Grief and Forgiveness; German victim discourse; DEFA documentaries: the transposition of grief into Cold War rhetoric; Towards a new culture of reconciliation; Multi-perspectivism, moral ambiguity and reconciliation in Sebastian Dehnhardt's Das Drama von Dresden; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape.
Arts.
Civilization—History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Communication.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Arts.
Cultural History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Media Studies.
European History.
Modern History.