Shame and shamelessness in Oskar Roehler's Die Unberührbare

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ID20660620
AutoresKaleen Gallagher (Independent Scholar Berlin Germany, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume96
Fascículo1
Páginas97-112
Data de publicação2023-03-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe German Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-8831 • E-ISSN: 1756-1183
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gequ.12316
OpenAlexW4323044603
IdiomaDE
Referências citadas10

This article makes the case that the life of Hanna Flanders, the protagonist of Oskar Roehler's film Die Unberührbare (2000), is marked by a dialectic of shame and shamelessness that persists even into her death by suicide and indeed beyond it. Roehler based the film on the life of his mother, the writer Gisela Elsner, and he highlights the centrality of shame and shamelessness to his own enterprise—which could invite shame by publicizing the suicide of a family member but also risks shamelessly exploiting her death for financial gain—first, by maintaining a high level of ambiguity about how much of the film is true, and second, through an aesthetic approach that evokes both shame and shamelessness through a play of intimacy and distance. In doing so, he draws attention to the fact that the dialectic that characterizes his protagonist's life also shapes his film

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Art history · Dialectic · Linguistics · oskar · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Sociology · Theology · German History and Society · Literature and Cultural Memory · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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