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Worlds of Memory
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Microhistories of Memory
Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
Translated by Alexander Simmeth
340 pages, 31 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-179-1 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-180-7 eBook Not Yet Published
Description
The West German novel, radio play, and television series, Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has been gradually regaining popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in post-war West Germany, the cultural memories of the holocaust embedded within this multi-medium construction present different forms of historical conceptualization. Using numerous archival sources, Microhistories of Memory brings forward three comprehensive case studies on the impact, actors, and materiality of accounts surrounding questions of circulation of cultural memory, audience reception, production, and popularity of Through the Night in its different mediums since its first appearance.
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska is research fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and associate professor at the University of Lodz. She is co-author of the monograph Bilder der Normalisierung. Gesundheiat, Ernährung und Haushalt in der visuellen Kultur Deutschlands, 1945–1948 (De Gruyter, 2017), among others. Her other publications include contributions to Memory Studies, The Public Historian, and the German Studies Review.