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- Title
On Truth and Politics in German Documentary Theater of the 1960s: Hannah Arendt and Peter Weiss.
- Authors
Wihstutz, Benjamin
- Abstract
The article addresses the German documentary theater of the 1960s through the eyes of Hannah Arendt. Arendt’s essays on “Truth and Politics” and her theory on judgement share a common interest with playwrights like Peter Weiss, Rolf Hochhuth and Heiner Kipphardt in court trials, political history and witnessing. However, their perspectives also differ with regard to the impartiality of judgement and their understanding of factual truth. The article seeks to take a closer look at these differences and contradictions with a special focus on Die Ermittlung (1965) by Peter Weiss, the famous documentary play on the Auschwitz trials, and links them to the intersections of theatricality and judgement and to political questions of German memory culture.
- Subjects
ARENDT, Hannah, 1906-1975; AUSCHWITZ concentration camp; JUDGMENT (Psychology); NINETEEN sixties; COLLECTIVE memory; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Colloquia Germanica, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 1/2, p89
- ISSN
0010-1338
- Publication type
Article