Friederike Eigler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friederike Eigler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friederike |
| FAMILY NAME | Eigler |
| SIGNATURE | EIGLER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2150-3032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsettling German Memory Culture
In Sie kam aus Mariupol (2017), Natascha Wodin reconstructs her Ukrainian family history with special focus on her mother’s experience as a forced labourer in Nazi Germany and the debilitating effects of continued discrimination in postwar Germany. Wodin’s powerful narrative draws attention to a traumatized woman whose short life coincided with violent upheavals in twentieth-century Ukrainian, Russian, and German history. Based on approaches in m…
Fostering Transnational, Multilingual Collaboration
The Berlin-based initiative Weiter Schreiben was founded in 2017 by the writer Annika Reich and responds to the daunting refugee situation in contemporary Europe by encouraging collaboration between established and displaced writers living in Germany. The initiative’s objective is to foster multidirectional networks instead of one-directional support. This article explores how the organizational features of Weiter Schreiben are directly tied to i…
Postmemory and Implication
After providing an introduction to German language family narratives of the past forty years and discussing the relevance of Michael Rothberg’s notion of the “Implicated Subject” for the study of these narratives, this article presents a detailed analysis of Susanne Fritz’s German-Polish family history Wie kommt der Krieg ins Kind (How does the war get into the child, 2018). The article examines on the one hand the intertwined nature of the mothe…
Moving Forward
Since the end of the Cold War and the reconfiguration of the map of Europe, scholars across the disciplines have looked anew at the geopolitical and geocultural dimensions of East Central Europe. Although geographically at the periphery of Eastern Europe, Germany and its changing discourses on the East have also become a subject of this reassessment in recent years. Within this larger context, this special issue explores the fraught history of Ge…
"Critical Approaches to Heimat and the "Spatial Turn
The German concept of Heimat carries a rich set of cultural and ideological connotations that combine notions of belonging and identity with affective attachment to a specific place or region. At a time when regional realms have regained significance not only in sociopolitical life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely cons…
Zur Historisierung des Heimatbegriffs im Generationenroman
Der Heimatbegriff zeichnet sich durch eine wechselhafte Begriffsgeschichte aus - u.a. durch Bedeutungsvielfalt und ideologische Ambivalenz - und ist daher zu einem ergieben, transdisziplären Forschungsgegenstand geworden. Ausgehend von Dieter Fortes Kommentar zu einem in öffentlichen Diskursen verbreiteten nostalgischen Heimatbegriff, den er für unvereinbar mit den sozialgeschichtlichen Realitäten des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts erklärt, untersucht …
Memory Boom or Memory Fatigue in 21st Century Germany
Is "memory fatigue" setting in? One often hears this question in regards to Germans whenever another Holocaust-centered or Nazi era memory event erupts. But, one also increasingly hears this question about intellectuals and scholars in the humanities. Political scientists, lamentably, never really got into the study of memory in the first place. As an overly qualitative phenomenon the study of collective memory was impervious to dominant quantita…
Writing in the New Germany
This article discusses the genre of family narratives in contemporary German literature against the backdrop of cultural memory in postunification Germany.1 Family narratives lend themselves to a critical study of memory as they enact the transmission and transformation of memories from one generation to the next. Thus, these texts serve a pivotal role as both archives for and reflections on individual and collective memories of 20th century Germ…
Jenseits von Ostalgie
"Opa war kein Nazi." Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedachtnis
Literature and German Reunification
Engendering Cultural Memory in Selected Post-Wende Literary Texts of the 1990s
Memory and two seemingly incompatible phenomena, aptly capture the state of memory in contemporary Germany. The decade since German unification has seen a greatly increased public interest in issues of memory and commemoration, motivated by the reexamination of the history of the two Germanies and of the history of National Socialism from the perspective of post-unification Germany. Prominent examples are the ongoing debates about the urban recon…
Rereading Christa Wolf's "Selbstversuch"
In her seminal Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway invokes the cyborg, that hybrid of organism and machine, as a figure for a subversive feminist practice. Haraway breaks with traditional feminist approaches that have relied on Western origin myths and dualistic thought.1 Instead of rejecting or avoiding the male-dominated fields of technology and science, Haraway, by embracing the figure of the cyborg, calls on women to actively shape scientific and…
Babel
The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
Part 1 German identities: the national identity of the GDR - antifascism, historiography, literature, Peter C. Pfeiffer citizenship as process - German identity in an age of reconstruction, Joyce Marie Mushaben the future requires an origin - East-West German identity, the opportunities and difficulties of cultural politics, Hermann Glaser coming home into exile - the end of Romanian-German culture, Erika Nielsen. Part 2 Politics of literary hist…
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
Gewissenlose Erkenntnis
Politics of the Self
Die Mauer in Den Köpfen
Trauerarbeit in Brigitte Schwaigers Lange Abwesenheit als konfliktreiche Suche nach einer weiblichen Identität
ange Abwesenheit gehurt zu den autobiographisch gepragten Texten der spaten siebziger und friihen achtziger Jahre, in denen sich jungere Autoren mit der Generation ihrer Eltern und deren Rolle im Nationalsozialismus auseinandersetZen. SchreibanlaB ist haufig der Tod eines Elternteils und die dadurch ausgeldste Suche nach den psychologischen und historischen Determinanten der eigenen, fragwiirdig gewordenen Identitat.’ Die Folgen der NS-Zeit zeige…
Exil
"Critical Approaches to Heimat and the "Spatial Turn
The German concept of Heimat carries a rich set of cultural and ideological connotations that combine notions of belonging and identity with affective attachment to a specific place or region. At a time when regional realms have regained significance not only in sociopolitical life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely cons…
Memory Boom or Memory Fatigue in 21st Century Germany
Is "memory fatigue" setting in? One often hears this question in regards to Germans whenever another Holocaust-centered or Nazi era memory event erupts. But, one also increasingly hears this question about intellectuals and scholars in the humanities. Political scientists, lamentably, never really got into the study of memory in the first place. As an overly qualitative phenomenon the study of collective memory was impervious to dominant quantita…
Moving Forward
Since the end of the Cold War and the reconfiguration of the map of Europe, scholars across the disciplines have looked anew at the geopolitical and geocultural dimensions of East Central Europe. Although geographically at the periphery of Eastern Europe, Germany and its changing discourses on the East have also become a subject of this reassessment in recent years. Within this larger context, this special issue explores the fraught history of Ge…
Exil
Trauerarbeit in Brigitte Schwaigers Lange Abwesenheit als konfliktreiche Suche nach einer weiblichen Identität
ange Abwesenheit gehurt zu den autobiographisch gepragten Texten der spaten siebziger und friihen achtziger Jahre, in denen sich jungere Autoren mit der Generation ihrer Eltern und deren Rolle im Nationalsozialismus auseinandersetZen. SchreibanlaB ist haufig der Tod eines Elternteils und die dadurch ausgeldste Suche nach den psychologischen und historischen Determinanten der eigenen, fragwiirdig gewordenen Identitat.’ Die Folgen der NS-Zeit zeige…
Politics of the Self
Die Mauer in Den Köpfen
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
Gewissenlose Erkenntnis
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
Part 1 German identities: the national identity of the GDR - antifascism, historiography, literature, Peter C. Pfeiffer citizenship as process - German identity in an age of reconstruction, Joyce Marie Mushaben the future requires an origin - East-West German identity, the opportunities and difficulties of cultural politics, Hermann Glaser coming home into exile - the end of Romanian-German culture, Erika Nielsen. Part 2 Politics of literary hist…
Cultural Transformations in the New Germany
The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature
Rereading Christa Wolf's "Selbstversuch"
In her seminal Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway invokes the cyborg, that hybrid of organism and machine, as a figure for a subversive feminist practice. Haraway breaks with traditional feminist approaches that have relied on Western origin myths and dualistic thought.1 Instead of rejecting or avoiding the male-dominated fields of technology and science, Haraway, by embracing the figure of the cyborg, calls on women to actively shape scientific and…
Babel
Literature and German Reunification
Engendering Cultural Memory in Selected Post-Wende Literary Texts of the 1990s
Memory and two seemingly incompatible phenomena, aptly capture the state of memory in contemporary Germany. The decade since German unification has seen a greatly increased public interest in issues of memory and commemoration, motivated by the reexamination of the history of the two Germanies and of the history of National Socialism from the perspective of post-unification Germany. Prominent examples are the ongoing debates about the urban recon…
"Opa war kein Nazi." Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedachtnis
Jenseits von Ostalgie
Memory Boom or Memory Fatigue in 21st Century Germany
Is "memory fatigue" setting in? One often hears this question in regards to Germans whenever another Holocaust-centered or Nazi era memory event erupts. But, one also increasingly hears this question about intellectuals and scholars in the humanities. Political scientists, lamentably, never really got into the study of memory in the first place. As an overly qualitative phenomenon the study of collective memory was impervious to dominant quantita…
Writing in the New Germany
This article discusses the genre of family narratives in contemporary German literature against the backdrop of cultural memory in postunification Germany.1 Family narratives lend themselves to a critical study of memory as they enact the transmission and transformation of memories from one generation to the next. Thus, these texts serve a pivotal role as both archives for and reflections on individual and collective memories of 20th century Germ…
Zur Historisierung des Heimatbegriffs im Generationenroman
Der Heimatbegriff zeichnet sich durch eine wechselhafte Begriffsgeschichte aus - u.a. durch Bedeutungsvielfalt und ideologische Ambivalenz - und ist daher zu einem ergieben, transdisziplären Forschungsgegenstand geworden. Ausgehend von Dieter Fortes Kommentar zu einem in öffentlichen Diskursen verbreiteten nostalgischen Heimatbegriff, den er für unvereinbar mit den sozialgeschichtlichen Realitäten des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts erklärt, untersucht …
"Critical Approaches to Heimat and the "Spatial Turn
The German concept of Heimat carries a rich set of cultural and ideological connotations that combine notions of belonging and identity with affective attachment to a specific place or region. At a time when regional realms have regained significance not only in sociopolitical life but also in cultural and literary discourses, critical engagement with recent studies of spatiality is potentially highly productive. Yet studies of Heimat rarely cons…
Moving Forward
Since the end of the Cold War and the reconfiguration of the map of Europe, scholars across the disciplines have looked anew at the geopolitical and geocultural dimensions of East Central Europe. Although geographically at the periphery of Eastern Europe, Germany and its changing discourses on the East have also become a subject of this reassessment in recent years. Within this larger context, this special issue explores the fraught history of Ge…
Fostering Transnational, Multilingual Collaboration
The Berlin-based initiative Weiter Schreiben was founded in 2017 by the writer Annika Reich and responds to the daunting refugee situation in contemporary Europe by encouraging collaboration between established and displaced writers living in Germany. The initiative’s objective is to foster multidirectional networks instead of one-directional support. This article explores how the organizational features of Weiter Schreiben are directly tied to i…
Postmemory and Implication
After providing an introduction to German language family narratives of the past forty years and discussing the relevance of Michael Rothberg’s notion of the “Implicated Subject” for the study of these narratives, this article presents a detailed analysis of Susanne Fritz’s German-Polish family history Wie kommt der Krieg ins Kind (How does the war get into the child, 2018). The article examines on the one hand the intertwined nature of the mothe…
Unsettling German Memory Culture
In Sie kam aus Mariupol (2017), Natascha Wodin reconstructs her Ukrainian family history with special focus on her mother’s experience as a forced labourer in Nazi Germany and the debilitating effects of continued discrimination in postwar Germany. Wodin’s powerful narrative draws attention to a traumatized woman whose short life coincided with violent upheavals in twentieth-century Ukrainian, Russian, and German history. Based on approaches in m…
Art (20 works) · German (13 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · European history and politics (10 works) · German History and Society (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (7 works)