Die vielen Gesichter des Holocaust. Museale Repräsentationen zwischen Individualisierung, Universalisierung und Nationalisierung
Date
2012
Authors
Köhr, Katja
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Göttingen: V&R unipress
Abstract
Die Erinnerung an den Holocaust steht vor einer Zäsur. Mit dem Ableben der Angehörigen der letzten Erfahrungsgeneration lösen sekundäre Darstellungen der Geschichte die Primärerzählungen ab. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung kommt geschichtskulturellen Medien eine besondere Aufgabe zu. Sie sollen die Erinnerung wachhalten und vom kommunikativen Gedächtnis in das kulturelle Gedächtnis der Gesellschaften überführen. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist zu zeigen, wie museale Repräsentationen auf diese Herausforderungen reagieren. Gefragt wird nach transnationalen und nationalisierenden Tendenzen, nach Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden in den musealen Repräsentationen des Holocaust. Analysiert werden das Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, der Ort der Information unter dem Stelenfeld (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas in Berlin), das United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, das HL-Center Oslo und das Memorial Center in Budapest.
The process of remembering the Holocaust is facing a turning point. As the last members of the generation who experienced the Holocaust die, secondary presentations of history are replacing primary narratives. Cultural history media are entrusted with an important task as part of this development. They must keep the memories alive and transfer them from a communicative memory to societies’ cultural memory. The aim of this study is to show how representations in museums react to these challenges. Transnational and national tendencies are enquired into, as are similarities and differences in representations of the Holocaust in museums. The analysis focuses on the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, the Information Center for the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, the Holocaust Center in Oslo and the Memorial Center in Budapest.
The process of remembering the Holocaust is facing a turning point. As the last members of the generation who experienced the Holocaust die, secondary presentations of history are replacing primary narratives. Cultural history media are entrusted with an important task as part of this development. They must keep the memories alive and transfer them from a communicative memory to societies’ cultural memory. The aim of this study is to show how representations in museums react to these challenges. Transnational and national tendencies are enquired into, as are similarities and differences in representations of the Holocaust in museums. The analysis focuses on the Holocaust History Museum in Yad Vashem, the Information Center for the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, the Holocaust Center in Oslo and the Memorial Center in Budapest.
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