Exhibiting the Nazi Past
Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial
Published on 21. August 2018
X, 304 pages
978-3-319-77084-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 304 p. 16 illus. in color.
File size
4,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-77084-0 (9783319770840)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-77084-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Person
Chloe Paver is Associate Professor of German at the University of Exeter, UK. She published widely on German literature and film before turning to the study of history exhibitions. She is the author of
Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel
(1999)
and
Refractions of the Third Reich in German and Austrian Fiction and Film
(2007).
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Between the Material and the Immaterial.- 3. Material Experiences, 1933-45.- 4. Material Collapse, 1945.- 5. Material After-Lives between the Attic and the Museum.- 6. Conclusion.- Index.
