Elissa Mailänder
Biographic Data
| ID | 370745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elissa Mailänder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mailänder |
| SIGNATURE | MAILÄNDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visual Pleasures? Wehrmacht Vernacular Trophy Photographs and the Female Other in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
Cruising Europe in World War II: Epistemological Challenges of German Vernacular Trophy Photography
The Nazi regime outfitted the Wehrmacht with the best photographic technology and its soldiers were far better equipped than their allies or nemeses. More than ten per cent of the eighteen million German combatants possessed a fast-shutter 35-mm camera. German soldier-photographers documented their wartime activities extensively, in turn leaving behind a gigantic, private and largely underexplored archive that poses multiple epistemological and e…
Who likes kidneys?’ ‘Fried in the pan?’: Thoughts on Visual Mediations and Perceptions of Violence
Taking a video of the Serbian paramilitary Scorpions unit recording killing as a starting point and drawing upon my own research on WWII and the German genocide, the purpose of this essay is to probe the methodological and ethical challenges of visual sources (videos, photographs) that mediate acts and experiences of violence. Today’s viewers might first notice the striking violence and horror of the Scorpions unit video, reacting in many cases w…
Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography
This co-authored article draws upon two distinct genres of photography, police mugshots and amateur soldier snapshots, to illustrate the value of queer visual culture methodologies for how to think about the visualization of violence, masculinity and desire. Building upon two vastly different depictions of male to female cross-dressing, one produced between 1934 and 1938 by the Berlin police and Gestapo of a transvestite and the other produced be…
Masters of Sex? Nazism, Bigamy, and a University Professor's Fight with Society and the State (1930-1970)
Scholars of genocide and mass violence passionately debate whether a "Nazi morality" exists or the concept simply conflates moral codes with a self-deceptive ideology. However illogical and delusional Nazism might seem from a humanistic standpoint, as a lived experience and professional practice it was grounded in what we commonly value in our scientific and political practice: seriousness, perseverance, and resourcefulness. This article draws up…
Everywhere the Same, yet Different
“The linkages between violence and spectacle extend back to biblical and classical times and even before that, to the cultures of prerecorded history. The contemporary digital world has become too familiar with media display of graphic violence.” Edward Weisband’s book launches with an ambitious project. By approaching the twentieth century in a long-durée and transnational perspective, the political scientist draws attention to a neglected issue…
Whining and Winning: Male Narratives of Love, Marriage, and Divorce in the Shadow of the Third Reich
This article analyzes the social realities that Austrian and German heterosexual men, all in their reproductive age, confronted in the aftermath of World War II; the kind of sexual and gendered configurations produced under Nazism and during the postwar period; and the ways in which these social and emotional realities were publically and privately dealt with after the war. It draws on reports in, and letters-to-the-editor of, the journal Liebe u…
Des mémoires contradictoires: Histoire et récits d’une pendaison au camp de Majdanek, 1943
Partant du cas d'une pendaison dans la section des femmes du camp de Majdanek à l'été 1943, cet article propose d'analyser les dépositions des rescapées au tribunal de grande instance de Düsseldorf (1975-1981). En l'absence de tout document écrit, la preuve testimoniale sur laquelle les procureurs se fondent pose un problème : bien que la totalité des prisonnières du camp aient été forcées d'assister à l'exécution, elles n'ont pas toutes vu la mê…
Making Sense of a Rape Photograph: Sexual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front, 1939–1944
This article begins with a disturbing image that has a no-less-unsettling provenance. It shows a group of fifteen young German soldiers standing in a semicircle, carousing and laughing as one of their comrades emultes a sex act with an unidentified woman who may or may not be dead. The laughter of his comrades suggests approval for the actons of the man on the ground. Although it is not clear if the photograph depicts an act of actual rape, its a…
Eigensinn et « usine de mort: L'histoire du quotidien et l'univers concentrationnaire
Obéissance, participation enthousiaste, autonomie et distance : ce sont de telles humeurs qui rythment, au jour le jour, la vie des SS, dirigeants ou subalternes, dans le camp de concentration et d’extermination de Majdanek (1941-1944). L’article montre, à partir de l’analyse concrète d’une trajectoire individuelle et d’une situation d’interaction, à quel point leur comportement se laisse expliquer dans les termes de l’analyse des interactions en…
Les violences concentrationnaires au prisme de la cruauté (1933-1945): Le cas d’Otto Moll
Les violences subies par les déportés dans les camps de concentration et d’extermination ont le plus souvent, à juste titre, été rapportées à une industrie impersonnelle et bureaucratique, voire à des logiques institutionnelles mettant l’accent sur les logiques propres à un camp ou les idéologies corporatistes, dont celle des nazis ou des SS. Dans cet article, nous proposons une perspective complémentaire, sans doute marginale, mais qui a tout de…
Regina Mühlhäuser, Eroberungen. Sexuelle Gewalttaten und intime Beziehungen deutsche Soldaten in der Sowjetunion, 1941-1945: Hambourg, Hamburger Edition, 2010
Que les violences sexuelles fassent partie intégrante de la guerre est un constat aujourd’hui largement accepté. Pourtant, lorsqu’il s’agit de la Wehrmacht, cela reste une question controversée et un domaine de recherche récent. Pendant trop longtemps la Guerre froide, rendant difficile voire impossible l’accès aux archives soviétiques, avait favorisé le mythe d’une Wehrmacht “propre” (saubere Wehrmacht). Parce que c’est bien le front de l’Est qu…
Work, Violence and Cruelty: An Everyday Historical Perspective on Perpetrators in Nazi Concentration Camps
Cet article étudie, dans une perspective d'histoire du quotidien, les actes de violence individuels commis par le personnel SS masculin et féminin au camp de concentration et d'extermination de Majdanek (1941-1944), dans la Pologne occupée. Il donne un aperçu de trois formes exemplaires de la violence concentrationnaire et génocidaire - l'extermination, les mauvais traitements physiques et la cruauté - et s'interroge sur le contexte situationnel,…
Everyday life in Nazi Germany
At a conference in 2007 in his honour at the University of Michigan, Alf Lüdtke commented that there are many different ways to research the history of everyday life: its practitioners are still more united by the questions they ask than by how they seek their answers. Its pluralism, and its marginality, has allowed Alltagsgeschichte to serve as a conduit for epistemological innovation into modern German history from other fields, such as the lin…
Making Sense of a Rape Photograph: Sexual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front, 1939–1944
This article begins with a disturbing image that has a no-less-unsettling provenance. It shows a group of fifteen young German soldiers standing in a semicircle, carousing and laughing as one of their comrades emultes a sex act with an unidentified woman who may or may not be dead. The laughter of his comrades suggests approval for the actons of the man on the ground. Although it is not clear if the photograph depicts an act of actual rape, its a…
Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography
This co-authored article draws upon two distinct genres of photography, police mugshots and amateur soldier snapshots, to illustrate the value of queer visual culture methodologies for how to think about the visualization of violence, masculinity and desire. Building upon two vastly different depictions of male to female cross-dressing, one produced between 1934 and 1938 by the Berlin police and Gestapo of a transvestite and the other produced be…
Work, Violence and Cruelty: An Everyday Historical Perspective on Perpetrators in Nazi Concentration Camps
Cet article étudie, dans une perspective d'histoire du quotidien, les actes de violence individuels commis par le personnel SS masculin et féminin au camp de concentration et d'extermination de Majdanek (1941-1944), dans la Pologne occupée. Il donne un aperçu de trois formes exemplaires de la violence concentrationnaire et génocidaire - l'extermination, les mauvais traitements physiques et la cruauté - et s'interroge sur le contexte situationnel,…
Everyday life in Nazi Germany
At a conference in 2007 in his honour at the University of Michigan, Alf Lüdtke commented that there are many different ways to research the history of everyday life: its practitioners are still more united by the questions they ask than by how they seek their answers. Its pluralism, and its marginality, has allowed Alltagsgeschichte to serve as a conduit for epistemological innovation into modern German history from other fields, such as the lin…
Work, Violence and Cruelty: An Everyday Historical Perspective on Perpetrators in Nazi Concentration Camps
Cet article étudie, dans une perspective d'histoire du quotidien, les actes de violence individuels commis par le personnel SS masculin et féminin au camp de concentration et d'extermination de Majdanek (1941-1944), dans la Pologne occupée. Il donne un aperçu de trois formes exemplaires de la violence concentrationnaire et génocidaire - l'extermination, les mauvais traitements physiques et la cruauté - et s'interroge sur le contexte situationnel,…
Regina Mühlhäuser, Eroberungen. Sexuelle Gewalttaten und intime Beziehungen deutsche Soldaten in der Sowjetunion, 1941-1945: Hambourg, Hamburger Edition, 2010
Que les violences sexuelles fassent partie intégrante de la guerre est un constat aujourd’hui largement accepté. Pourtant, lorsqu’il s’agit de la Wehrmacht, cela reste une question controversée et un domaine de recherche récent. Pendant trop longtemps la Guerre froide, rendant difficile voire impossible l’accès aux archives soviétiques, avait favorisé le mythe d’une Wehrmacht “propre” (saubere Wehrmacht). Parce que c’est bien le front de l’Est qu…
Les violences concentrationnaires au prisme de la cruauté (1933-1945): Le cas d’Otto Moll
Les violences subies par les déportés dans les camps de concentration et d’extermination ont le plus souvent, à juste titre, été rapportées à une industrie impersonnelle et bureaucratique, voire à des logiques institutionnelles mettant l’accent sur les logiques propres à un camp ou les idéologies corporatistes, dont celle des nazis ou des SS. Dans cet article, nous proposons une perspective complémentaire, sans doute marginale, mais qui a tout de…
Eigensinn et « usine de mort: L'histoire du quotidien et l'univers concentrationnaire
Obéissance, participation enthousiaste, autonomie et distance : ce sont de telles humeurs qui rythment, au jour le jour, la vie des SS, dirigeants ou subalternes, dans le camp de concentration et d’extermination de Majdanek (1941-1944). L’article montre, à partir de l’analyse concrète d’une trajectoire individuelle et d’une situation d’interaction, à quel point leur comportement se laisse expliquer dans les termes de l’analyse des interactions en…
Making Sense of a Rape Photograph: Sexual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front, 1939–1944
This article begins with a disturbing image that has a no-less-unsettling provenance. It shows a group of fifteen young German soldiers standing in a semicircle, carousing and laughing as one of their comrades emultes a sex act with an unidentified woman who may or may not be dead. The laughter of his comrades suggests approval for the actons of the man on the ground. Although it is not clear if the photograph depicts an act of actual rape, its a…
Whining and Winning: Male Narratives of Love, Marriage, and Divorce in the Shadow of the Third Reich
This article analyzes the social realities that Austrian and German heterosexual men, all in their reproductive age, confronted in the aftermath of World War II; the kind of sexual and gendered configurations produced under Nazism and during the postwar period; and the ways in which these social and emotional realities were publically and privately dealt with after the war. It draws on reports in, and letters-to-the-editor of, the journal Liebe u…
Des mémoires contradictoires: Histoire et récits d’une pendaison au camp de Majdanek, 1943
Partant du cas d'une pendaison dans la section des femmes du camp de Majdanek à l'été 1943, cet article propose d'analyser les dépositions des rescapées au tribunal de grande instance de Düsseldorf (1975-1981). En l'absence de tout document écrit, la preuve testimoniale sur laquelle les procureurs se fondent pose un problème : bien que la totalité des prisonnières du camp aient été forcées d'assister à l'exécution, elles n'ont pas toutes vu la mê…
Everywhere the Same, yet Different
“The linkages between violence and spectacle extend back to biblical and classical times and even before that, to the cultures of prerecorded history. The contemporary digital world has become too familiar with media display of graphic violence.” Edward Weisband’s book launches with an ambitious project. By approaching the twentieth century in a long-durée and transnational perspective, the political scientist draws attention to a neglected issue…
Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography
This co-authored article draws upon two distinct genres of photography, police mugshots and amateur soldier snapshots, to illustrate the value of queer visual culture methodologies for how to think about the visualization of violence, masculinity and desire. Building upon two vastly different depictions of male to female cross-dressing, one produced between 1934 and 1938 by the Berlin police and Gestapo of a transvestite and the other produced be…
Masters of Sex? Nazism, Bigamy, and a University Professor's Fight with Society and the State (1930-1970)
Scholars of genocide and mass violence passionately debate whether a "Nazi morality" exists or the concept simply conflates moral codes with a self-deceptive ideology. However illogical and delusional Nazism might seem from a humanistic standpoint, as a lived experience and professional practice it was grounded in what we commonly value in our scientific and political practice: seriousness, perseverance, and resourcefulness. This article draws up…
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography: Q&A from questions posed by the editors Daniel Foliard and Sean Willcock to authors Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rush…
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
Cruising Europe in World War II: Epistemological Challenges of German Vernacular Trophy Photography
The Nazi regime outfitted the Wehrmacht with the best photographic technology and its soldiers were far better equipped than their allies or nemeses. More than ten per cent of the eighteen million German combatants possessed a fast-shutter 35-mm camera. German soldier-photographers documented their wartime activities extensively, in turn leaving behind a gigantic, private and largely underexplored archive that poses multiple epistemological and e…
Who likes kidneys?’ ‘Fried in the pan?’: Thoughts on Visual Mediations and Perceptions of Violence
Taking a video of the Serbian paramilitary Scorpions unit recording killing as a starting point and drawing upon my own research on WWII and the German genocide, the purpose of this essay is to probe the methodological and ethical challenges of visual sources (videos, photographs) that mediate acts and experiences of violence. Today’s viewers might first notice the striking violence and horror of the Scorpions unit video, reacting in many cases w…
Visual Pleasures? Wehrmacht Vernacular Trophy Photographs and the Female Other in Nazi-Occupied Europe
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