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Unhappy End: Understanding Silence in Andreas Dresen’s Stilles Land
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 81–105.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Martin Kagel This article considers the role of silence in Andreas Dresen’s 1992 debut film Stilles Land ( Silent Country ). It initially provides background on the film’s setting, the theater of Anklam, its recent history and significance, before discussing the general role of theater...
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Filming Familial Secrets: Approaching and Avoiding Legacies of Nazi Perpetration
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 115–134.
Published: 01 February 2011
... with long-silenced familial legacies. These attempts to work through, or at least make readable, the affective afterlife of silenced histories of guilt and shame are evidence of the limits of any strategy for mastering the affective inheritance that this past represents. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc...
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Fritz Stern: An Interview on Günter Grass
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the Waffen-SS and a covert anti-Semite, regards such attacks as misplaced and ultimately irrelevant. In Stern's view, the real problems lie in various oversimplifications of the debate on the Middle East, in Grass's failure to take note of Israel's internal debates, and in his long silence about his own past...
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Lamenting Language Itself: Gershom Scholem on the Silent Language of Lamentation
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 1–26.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., as the language of destruction and silence, lam-
entation equally mourns the “Fall” of language and grants hope for its redemp-
tion. As long as language has not been restored, lamentation is nourished by
its internal paradoxes and lives on as a tradition.
“On Lamentation and Dirges,” the focus...
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Reiterative Reading: Harun Farocki's Approach to the Footage from Westerbork Transit Camp
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 35–55.
Published: 01 November 2014
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7. On this film, see Brad Prager’s contribution to this special issue.
8. For important readings of Respite that have informed my argument, see Nora Alter, “Dead
Silence,” in Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom?, ed. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun
(London: Raven Row, 2009), 171–78...
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A Sympathy with Death: Weimar Politics from Heidegger to Mann
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 129–153.
Published: 01 February 2023
... only and constantly in the mode of silence” (redet einzig und ständig im Modus des Schweigens) ( SZ , 273). It is explicitly not an utterance, and it is not assimilable into everyday discourse. The call is precisely what can “summon” Dasein “out of” ( aufrufen ) its everydayness and “call” it “toward...
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Toward a Model of Conspiracy Theory for Ancient Rome
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 27–49.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and maintenance of elite Roman social forms.
Epistemological considerations complement this sociohistorical model-
ing of conspiracy theory in ancient Rome. Three aspects of conspiracy raise
fundamental contradictions about knowledge: silence, punishment, and evi-
dence. Silence is a necessary...
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An Other Unspeakability: Levi and Lagerszpracha
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 165–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in silence, anxious to understand, and among us there were
speakers of all the languages of Europe; but Hurbinek’s word remained
secret. No, it was certainly not a message, it was not a revelation, perhaps it
was his name, if it had ever fallen to his lot to be given a name, perhaps...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the failings that typified West German historiog-
raphy’s attempts to address the Holocaust subsequent to 1945.21 Laura Jock-
usch writes about the lack of interest in listening to Jewish voices immediately
after the war, pointing out that the ostensibly strange and often-cited silence
about...
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Trendy Monsters: The Nazis, the Perpetrator Turn, and Popular Culture
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 65–98.
Published: 01 November 2021
...” cannibal has followed the same pattern and undergone the same semantic shift. The similarities in the trajectory of these images becomes apparent in two comparisons. The first up is Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serial killer and a former psychiatrist in the novel The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas...
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“The Struggle Is Over, the Wounds Are Open”: Cinematic Tropes, History, and the RAF in Recent German Film
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 1–26.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... The existing histori-
cal literature also relies heavily on a model of state-society “catharsis”; cf. Kraushaar, “Zwischen
Popkultur und Zeitgeschichte,” 270.
Cinematic Tropes, History, and the RAF
press coverage of the anniversary is the atmosphere of fear and silence that
marked the German Autumn...
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Franz Rosenzweig, Richard Wagner, and the Sacred Theater of the Day of Atonement
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 49–75.
Published: 01 August 2022
... within him that wishes to be expressed and cannot be communicated to others interrupts his belonging to the collective of the polis and makes him lonely. The hero’s loneliness makes love scenes impossible, and his incapability of sharing his inner experience with others is depicted through his silence...
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Undisciplined Knowledge: Intersectional Black European Studies
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 37–49.
Published: 01 November 2023
...” There are, I think, specific ways that Black scholars of slavery get wedged in the partial truths of the archives while trying to make sense of their silences, absences, and modes of dis/appearance. The methods most readily available to us sometimes, oftentimes, force us into positions that run counter to what...
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Niklas Luhmann
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 189–203.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Chicago : University of Chicago Press . ———. 1990 . Essays on Self-Reference . New York : Columbia University Press . ———. 1990 . Political Theory in the Welfare State , translated by Bednarz John Jr. Berlin : de Gruyter . ———. 1994 . “Speaking and Silence.” New German...
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Katja Petrowskaja’s Translational Poetics of Memory
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 51–78.
Published: 01 August 2024
... sides of the iron curtain. She translates global Holocaust memory into local memory in Poland and Ukraine, on the one hand, and memories and silences of the local Holocaust and Soviet repression into European memory space, on the other hand. But not without difficulty. The narrator is acutely aware...
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Where the Earth Folded: Celan’s Encounter with Leibniz, August 1959
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 133–153.
Published: 01 August 2018
... nothing but a pause, it’s an empty space between words, it’s a blank, you can see all the syllables stand around” ( GiG , 28). In a twofold movement, Celan shows the desire for stable forms as well as the dangers that arise with their realization: “The stick is silent, the stone is silent, and the silence...
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Shameful Exposures: Ordinary Germans and the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Documentary Film
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 159–178.
Published: 01 November 2014
... as
dominant paradigms in coming to terms with the Nazi past. In this vein, Aleida
Assmann characterizes postwar Germany as marked by a conflict between a
culture of guilt, demanding repentance and conversion in the public sphere,
and a culture of shame, which, privileging discretion and silence...
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Trash and Transformation: The Search for Identity in Wolfgang Hilbig's Die Kunde von den Bäumen and Alte Abdeckerei
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 87–102.
Published: 01 August 2012
... intensity as a result of the East German state’s systematic
abuse of language, in which the only alternatives were “official jargon” or
silence.31 Moreover, as Hilbig’s comments on the startling similarities between
the postunification literature industry and the practice of the Stasi indicate...
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The Oyneg Shabes Archive and the Cold War: The Case of Yehoshue Perle's Khurbn Varshe
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 181–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... they tarred as the Judenräte’s postwar continuation.
Perle’s text today unsettles, at times almost unbearably, powerful main-
stream paradigms of Holocaust memory that privilege silent witness or even
define witnessas a certain silence, inaccessibility, or impossibility. Against the
Holocaust’s...
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Too Soon and Too Late: The Problem of Archive Work in Christian Petzold’s Phoenix
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 173–195.
Published: 01 February 2020
.... Esther is a figure of disavowed trauma, and only through her can Nelly begin to perform the part of “Nelly,” the erased, silenced version of herself that Johnny wants to see. Johnny’s obsessive attempts at creating a fantasy version of Nelly, at bringing to life a woman he believes dead, signal...
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