transnational politics of aesthetics: return migration and the cultural reconstruction in germany...
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Transnational Politics of Aesthetics: Return Migration and the Cultural
Reconstruction in Germany after 1945
research project seed funding 2011-12
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Archival Research on return migration to Germany
after 1945
Berlin
Spring 2012
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Zwischen gestern und morgen/Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (dir. Harald Braun, 1947)
Der Ruf/The Last Illusion(dir. J. v. Baky, 1948/49
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The Murderers Are among Us(Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)
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Ernst Toller Kurt Tucholsky Stefan Zweig Walter Benjamin
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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• Klaus Mann• Fritz Kortner• Johanna Hofer• Eric Pommer• Helene Weigel• Bertolt Brecht• Klaus Mann• Stefan Heym
etc.
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outcomes…
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“Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of
the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and
Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf”
Feuchtwanger Studies 3 (2013): 475-95.
Article on returning migrant Fritz Kortner for a special issue of Feuchtwanger Studies on Remigration
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Representing the ‘Good German’ in Literature and Culture after 1945:
Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (edited and introduced with Pól Ó Dochartaigh;
Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013)
Chapter on films produced during the immediate postwar era, involving numerous returning exiles, such as Eric Pommer, Fritz Kortner and Johanna Hofer:
“Being Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film”
in:
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understanding exile
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First critical and complete edition of Ernst Toller’s collected works in 5 volumes, in collaboration with a group of international scholars; forthcoming Göttingen: Wallstein, from 2013/14;
3. commentary/editionco-editor of volume 2; introd. dramatic works written and/or performed in exile:•Die blinde Göttin (1932/33)•Nie wieder Friede! (1933/36)
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Memories of WWII: redefining the self in post-war Europe edited by M. Bragança and P. Tame (Queen’s University Belfast)
chapter on:“Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945”
essay submitted, to be published in 2014
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Willy Brandtreturned from exile in Norway in 1948
Chancellor of Germany 1969-74