From Countermonument to Combimemorial
Developments in German Memorialization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914580 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-91 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1752627212z.0000000006 |
| OpenAlex | W2046609291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article argues that the so-called ‘countermonuments’ which emerged in West Germany as of the 1980s are not as pathbreakingly new, in terms of their intentions, as has hitherto been thought. It examines post-1945 West German memorials to Jewish victims of Nazism to demonstrate this point. At the same time it seeks to define exactly what it was that was new about the ‘countermonuments’. It concludes by identifying a new breed of memorials which developed out of, and to an extent contemporaneously with the countermonuments, and which this article terms ‘combimemorials’ to designate their integration of memorial, archival, and exhibition elements
Archaeology · Art history · Exhibition · German · Judaism · Memorialization · Nazism · Political science · Sociology · German History and Society · History · Law · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |