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research project seed funding 2011-12

Transnational Politics of Aesthetics: Return Migration and the Cultural Reconstruction in Germany after 1945. research project seed funding 2011-12. Archival Research on return migration to Germany after 1945. Berlin Spring 2012. Zwischen gestern und morgen /Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

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research project seed funding 2011-12

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  1. Transnational Politics of Aesthetics: Return Migration and the Cultural Reconstruction in Germany after 1945 research project seed funding 2011-12

  2. Archival Research on return migration to Germany after 1945 Berlin Spring 2012

  3. Zwischengestern und morgen/Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (dir. Harald Braun, 1947) DerRuf/The Last Illusion (dir. J. v. Baky, 1948/49

  4. The Murderers Are among Us(Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)

  5. Ernst Toller Kurt Tucholsky Stefan Zweig Walter Benjamin

  6. Else Lasker-Schüler

  7. Klaus Mann • Fritz Kortner • Johanna Hofer • Eric Pommer • Helene Weigel • Bertolt Brecht • Klaus Mann • Stefan Heym etc.

  8. outcomes…

  9. “Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’sThe Mission and Josef v. Báky’sDerRuf”FeuchtwangerStudies 3 (2013): 475-95. Article on returning migrant Fritz Kortner for a special issue of Feuchtwanger Studies on Remigration

  10. Representing the ‘Good German’ in Literature and Culture after 1945:Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (edited and introduced with Pól Ó Dochartaigh; Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013) Chapter on films produced during the immediate postwar era, involving numerous returning exiles, such as Eric Pommer, Fritz Kortner and Johanna Hofer: “Being Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film” in:

  11. understanding exile

  12. First critical and complete edition of Ernst Toller’s collected works in 5 volumes, in collaboration with a group of international scholars; forthcoming Göttingen: Wallstein, from 2013/14; • 3. commentary/edition • co-editor of volume 2; introd. dramatic works written and/or performed in exile: • Die blindeGöttin(1932/33) • NiewiederFriede! (1933/36)

  13. Memories of WWII: redefining the self in post-war Europe edited by M. Bragança and P. Tame (Queen’s University Belfast) chapter on: “Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945” essay submitted, to be published in 2014

  14. Willy Brandtreturned from exile in Norway in 1948Chancellor of Germany 1969-74

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