Legal and Epic Alienation. Fritz Bauer’s Critique of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-1965) and Peter Weiss’s Dramatic Treatment of the Trial in the Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Cantos (1965)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21740503 |
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| Authors | Kerstin Steitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 187-210 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-685X • E-ISSN: 1541-2601 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1535685x.2023.2294597 |
| OpenAlex | W4391401726 |
| Language | EN |
Beginning with the influences of Schiller’s humanist ideals on Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer’s expectations of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial as a legal working through of the past, this article compares the Holocaust narrative created by the West German criminal trial to Peter Weiss’s reworking of the transcripts, The Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Cantos. The article aims to show that literature is able to convey and commemorate aspects of the Holocaust that German criminal law misrepresents and omits
Alienation · Art · EPIC · Literature · Oratorio · Political science · Psychoanalysis · German History and Society · Law · Memory, History, Trauma, Identity · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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