Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
South Atlantic Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
96,4 (1997) 853-880
Keywords:
Hoheisel, Horst,
;
Ullman, Micha,
;
Whiteread, Rachel
;
Stih, Renata
;
Schnock, Frieder
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Only an unfinished memorial process can guarantee the life of memory; the finished monument completes memory itself. Unlike most monuments, a Holocaust memorial in Germany represents the persecutor remembering his victims. Today's German memorial artists are heirs of the Nazi regime which itself heavily exploited monuments. The best German memorial of the fascist era may simply be the never-to-be-resolved debate over what memory to preserve and how to preserve it. Describes several German monuments of "self-abnegation" by Jochen Gerz and Horst Hoheisel which were constructed to be out of sight yet kept in mind, a monument in Austria by Rachel Whiteread, Shimon Attie's photographs of Jewish Berlin projected on the walls of contemporary Berlin, and proposals by Daniel Libeskind for a Jewish wing of the Berlin Museum and Horst Hoheisel for a German Holocaust memorial.
Note:
On Horst Hoheisel, Micha Ullman, Rachel Whiteread, Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock.
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Other versions appeared in his "At Memory's Edge" (2000) 90-119 and in "Image and Remembrance" (2003).
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