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- Title
Nachwirkungen des Nationalsozialismus. Mechanismen der Schuldübertragung auf die Kinder der Täter und ihre erinnerungskulturellen Funktionen in Martin Walsers Drama Der Schwarze Schwan.
- Authors
Welsh, Caroline
- Abstract
The paper analyses the link between the National Socialist Euthanasia-Programme, the Holocaust and the effect of these mass murders on the children of perpetrators as depicted in Martin Walser's Der schwarze Schwan. First performed during the Frankfurter Auschwitz-Process, the drama prefigures later psychoanalytical theories on the transmission of guilt to the second generation. A close reading of the drama reveals the importance of childhood memories and contrasts them with Walser's statements on the effect of the holocaust on his childhood memories.
- Subjects
DER schwarze Schwan (Theatrical production); NATIONAL socialism &; children; NATIONAL socialism &; collective memory; NATIONAL socialism &; theater; WALSER, Martin, 1927-2023; GUILT &; culture; GUILT in children
- Publication
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 2012, Vol 37, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0340-4528
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/iasl-2012-0001