'Heimat': At the Intersection of Memory and Space

Published by De Gruyter 2012

'Heimat'

At the Intersection of Memory and Space

Edited by: Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele

Volume 14 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292060

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About this book

The concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. Over the course of the past fifteen years, scholars across a range of disciplines have found new ways to examine the changing notions of Heimat – its multifaceted cultural, literary, and visual history, its gendered connotations, and its national and ideological appropriations.
This anthology is the first to examine cultural manifestations of Heimat by giving special consideration to issues of memory and space. The contributions to this volume challenge static notions of place often associated with Heimat. Instead, they explore the social and cultural production of places of belonging as they emerge in literary and visual narratives ranging from 1800 to 2000 and beyond.
Although the anthology includes historical perspectives on Heimat, its overall objective is not to trace its cultural or literary history, but to place this complex term into new conceptual contexts. Drawing attention to manifestations of Heimat within German literary and cultural studies provides a rich ground for exploring the transformation of locality in trans/national contexts.

Contributions by international experts
Case studies from literature, film, urban planning, and history
Ranging from 1800 to the present

Author / Editor information

Friederike Eigler, Georgetwon University, Washington DC, USA; Jens Kugele, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Heimat at the Intersection of Memory and Space Friederike Eigler and Jens Kugele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
SECTION I. Genealogies of Heimat: Poetics – Imagination – Gender
Erzählte Heimat und Heimatlichkeit des Erzählens Zwei poetologische Modelle des 19. Jahrhunderts: bürgerliches Epos (Goethe) und humoristischer Roman (Raabe) Helmut J. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Some Versions of Heimat Goethe and Hölderlin around 1800. Frenssen and Mann around 1900 Elizabeth Boa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Gender, Space, and Heimat Peter Blickle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
SECTION II. Urban Heimat : City-Spaces – History – Post/Modernity
Kampf um die Stadt als Identitätsverankerung und Geschichtsspeicher Aleida Assmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Heimat Berlin Siegfried Kracauer und Alfred Döblin als urbane Ethnografen der klassischen Moderne Christian Sieg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
The Architecture of Heimat in the Mise-en-Scène of Memory Amie Siegel’s Video Installation Barbara Mennel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
SECTION III. Remembering Heimat : Memory Sites – Taboos – Ghosts
Ostalgie, Local Identity, and the Quest for Heimat in the Global Age Julia Schoch’s Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers and Judith Zander’s Dinge, die wir heute sagten Anne Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
„Mein Problem ist das Kontinuum“ Heimat als dynamischer Gedächtnisraum im Werk Franz Fühmanns Withold Bonner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Geisterlandschaften The Memory of Heimat in Recent Berlin School Films Mareike Herrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
SECTION IV. Challenging Heimat : Language – Culture – Objects
Heimat, Modernity, and the Archive Günter Grass’s Grimms Wörter. Eine Liebeserklärung Monika Shafi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
The Emotional Geography of a Lost Space Germany as an Object of Jewish Attachment after 1945 Anthony D. Kauders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Prozesse der „Beheimatung“ Alltags- und Memorialobjekte Gisela Ecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Epilogue Home as Elsewhere Yi-Fu Tuan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Memory; Space; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; German Studies

eBook

Published: October 1, 2012
ISBN: 9783110292060

Hardcover

Published: September 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110291872