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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Guilt |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Force of Cultural Transformation |
| Editors | Katharina von Kellenbach, Matthias Buschmeier |
| Place of Publication | New York City |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 205-222 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
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Guilt: A Force of Cultural Transformation. ed. / Katharina von Kellenbach; Matthias Buschmeier. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 205-222.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Performing Guilt
T2 - How the Theater of the 1960s Challenged German Memory Culture
AU - Fischer, Saskia
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Peter Weiss’s controversial play The Investigation (1965) can be understood as an attempt to bring “the question of German guilt,” to quote the philosopher Karl Jaspers, to the center of public discourse. Weiss’s play confronted the entire society with collective guilt and compelled a wide-ranging social and political rethinking and re-examining of guilt and complicity in the 1960s. Weiss’s piece illustrates a process-oriented understanding of guilt that shows guilt as a temporal phenomenon with lasting and even devastating consequences in the present as long as atrocities remain unresolved. His differentiated, self-referential, dynamic, and politically provocative depiction of guilt has lost none of its fascination to this day and is still performed to deal with current war crimes and genocides.
AB - Peter Weiss’s controversial play The Investigation (1965) can be understood as an attempt to bring “the question of German guilt,” to quote the philosopher Karl Jaspers, to the center of public discourse. Weiss’s play confronted the entire society with collective guilt and compelled a wide-ranging social and political rethinking and re-examining of guilt and complicity in the 1960s. Weiss’s piece illustrates a process-oriented understanding of guilt that shows guilt as a temporal phenomenon with lasting and even devastating consequences in the present as long as atrocities remain unresolved. His differentiated, self-referential, dynamic, and politically provocative depiction of guilt has lost none of its fascination to this day and is still performed to deal with current war crimes and genocides.
U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780197557433.003.0011
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780197557433.003.0011
M3 - Contribution to book/anthology
SP - 205
EP - 222
BT - Guilt
A2 - von Kellenbach, Katharina
A2 - Buschmeier, Matthias
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - New York City
ER -