CONTENT
Foreword
‘Dissonanz’ author collectiveInstrumental Memory
Functions of Collective RememberingMathias Berek
FOCUSSED
Dresden in the wake of Germany:
The myths of Dresden and the modification of German national historyHenning Fischer
“During the raid, we watched as the bombs fell like manna from heaven.”
Interview with Olga Horakaudioscript Dresden
“Look around you, now you know.”
Politics of peace initiatives within the context of the commemorations of the bombing raids of Dresden since 1980.Claudia Jerzak
One Nation on the Screen: Dresden
Filmic Commemoration and German-German Memory PoliticsAntonia Schmid
Slaughterhouse Dresden
Literary Memory in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut and Jonathan Safran Foer
- Between Satire and KitschChristine Künzel
Frauenkirchen Mania
The Frauenkirche, ‘Dresden Cathedral’ and the ReconstructionPhilipp Klein
From Memorial Space to Learning Place
Present and prospective (hi)story telling at the Dresden Heidefriedhof / Heath CemeterySwen Steinberg
Dresdner Monument Stories
Contradictions between Reconstrucion and Victim IdentityPhilipp Klein
Dresden Christ Superstar
A Farce in five actsAndrea Hübler
Dresden calls
How one of the biggest European Nazi parades came to beAntifa Recherche Team Dresden (ART)
Legislated Commemoration
The new Saxony Assembly ActAntifa Recherche Team Dresden (ART)
CHRONOLOGICAL
Suddenly, Unexpectedly, Senseless?
Dresden during National SocialismRené Haase
“Yesterday Dresden, today Korea, and tomorrow the whole world.”
The ideological charging of 13 February commemorations in the Soviet Occupied Zone and the GDR: early days and later developments.Sophie Abbe
Make do and mend
The Commemoration of Dresden in Reunited GermanyAndrea Hübler
ACTIVIST
"But who ever asked us for pardon? Pardoning died in the deathcamps."
audioscript on the Persecution and Annihilation of the Jews in Dresden 1933 to 1945Heike Ehrlich/Kathrin Krahl
"It was meant as a provocation to make people think about what is really going on in Germany at the moment."
Interview with Krischan, a delegate of the Anti-nationalist Plenum HamburgConducted by Judith Lauer (»Dissonanz« Author Collective)
Chronology of the protests
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