Karen Remmler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Remmler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Remmler |
| SIGNATURE | REMMLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Geographies of Memory: Ruth Beckermann's Film Aesthetics
How might we view the films by the Jewish Austrian filmmaker, Ruth Beckermann through the lens of the prose by the late German writer W.G. Sebald? The archival and, at the same time, haunting prose of Sebald's works such as The Emigrants or Austerlitz bears a close resemblance to the work of memory that Beckermann's films begs us to do. By focusing on particular spaces of remembrance in Beckermann's films in comparison to Sebald's similar practic…
"Quot;On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory: W. G. Sebald
Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in "Excavation and Memory" is a fitting point of departure to explore the meaning, transmission, and form of cultural memory as a methodology and a subject in German studies. In this article, I explore the shift toward a renewed materiality of memory in fields such as archaeology and disaster studies that have been tangential to the discourses of cultural memory ba…
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany: An Anthology
Morris, Leslie, and Karen Remmler, eds. Contemporary Writing in Germany: An Anthology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 245 pp. $60.00 hardcover. Less than ten years ago, English-speaking readers had virtually no access to contemporary German-language writing. Today Morris and Remmler's anthology is one of five anthologies of German writing in English translation. Elena Lappin (Ed.) and Krishna Winston's (Trans.) Voices, German Words:…
Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989
How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah. Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appeara…
Ingeborg Bachmann
Geographies of Memory: Ruth Beckermann's Film Aesthetics
How might we view the films by the Jewish Austrian filmmaker, Ruth Beckermann through the lens of the prose by the late German writer W.G. Sebald? The archival and, at the same time, haunting prose of Sebald's works such as The Emigrants or Austerlitz bears a close resemblance to the work of memory that Beckermann's films begs us to do. By focusing on particular spaces of remembrance in Beckermann's films in comparison to Sebald's similar practic…
"Quot;On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory: W. G. Sebald
Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in "Excavation and Memory" is a fitting point of departure to explore the meaning, transmission, and form of cultural memory as a methodology and a subject in German studies. In this article, I explore the shift toward a renewed materiality of memory in fields such as archaeology and disaster studies that have been tangential to the discourses of cultural memory ba…
Ingeborg Bachmann
Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989
How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah. Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appeara…
Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany: An Anthology
Morris, Leslie, and Karen Remmler, eds. Contemporary Writing in Germany: An Anthology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 245 pp. $60.00 hardcover. Less than ten years ago, English-speaking readers had virtually no access to contemporary German-language writing. Today Morris and Remmler's anthology is one of five anthologies of German writing in English translation. Elena Lappin (Ed.) and Krishna Winston's (Trans.) Voices, German Words:…
"Quot;On the Natural History of Destruction" and Cultural Memory: W. G. Sebald
Benjamin's well-known emblematic description of the rememberer as an archaeologist in "Excavation and Memory" is a fitting point of departure to explore the meaning, transmission, and form of cultural memory as a methodology and a subject in German studies. In this article, I explore the shift toward a renewed materiality of memory in fields such as archaeology and disaster studies that have been tangential to the discourses of cultural memory ba…
Geographies of Memory: Ruth Beckermann's Film Aesthetics
How might we view the films by the Jewish Austrian filmmaker, Ruth Beckermann through the lens of the prose by the late German writer W.G. Sebald? The archival and, at the same time, haunting prose of Sebald's works such as The Emigrants or Austerlitz bears a close resemblance to the work of memory that Beckermann's films begs us to do. By focusing on particular spaces of remembrance in Beckermann's films in comparison to Sebald's similar practic…
Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · German (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cultural memory (2 works)