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When the Perpetrator Becomes a Reliable Witness of the Holocaust: On Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 2009
... perpetrator as a reliable historical—and even moral—witness of the Holocaust. Whether one admires Les bienveillantes or loathes it depends largely on how one responds to this improbable combination of perpetrator and reliable witness. One problematic aspect of the novel is its use of the Oresteia theme...
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Aptitudes of Feeling: Ekphrasis as Prosthetic Witnessing in Anne Duden's Judas Sheep
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 39–63.
Published: 01 February 2011
... generations and the Nazi past may be understood as one of prosthetic witnessing. While exposing normative contours of discourses of coming to terms with the past, prosthetic witnessing in Duden's text engages Renaissance representations of Christ, rendering an encounter with her viscerally affective narrative...
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Wagner Through Other Eyes: Parody and the Wit of Brevity in Theodor W. Adorno and Mark Twain
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 27–52.
Published: 01 November 2016
... by Andrews Frederick Frank Michael B. Sanderson Kenneth M. . Berkeley : University of California Press . Wilde Oscar . 1908 . The Picture of Dorian Gray . Leipzig : Tauchnitz . Wagner through Other Eyes:
Parody and the Wit of Brevity in
Theodor W. Adorno and Mark Twain...
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Searching for Evidence between Generations: Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 57–73.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Manuel Köppen Claude Lanzmann's Sobibor (2001) and Romuald Karmakar's Land of Annihilation (2004) are contrasting cinematic documentaries that return the viewer to German concentration camps in Poland. While Lanzmann insists on the pathos of the primary witness, whose words, like the places...
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The “Enormous Freedom of the Breaking Wave”: The Experience of Tradition in Benjamin between the Talmud and Kant
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
... at the heart of Walter Benjamin’s early discussion of tradition. His peculiar reference to “Talmudic wit” and to Kant as a tradendum in letters to Scholem, alongside related Jewish sources, and his engagement with Kant in “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy” are used to address these questions. Thus...
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The Vanishing Reality of the State: On Hans Blumenberg’s Political Theory
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 131–161.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of Reality and the Theory of the State,” which appeared in May 1968. This article reconstructs that essay’s main arguments and contextualizes it in the “historical phenomenology” Blumenberg developed in his middle period. Arguing that we are witnessing a slow dissolution of the state, he suggests...
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Unfolding Political Emergence: The Knowledge of Visual Artworks in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 65–91.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the experience of the victim with the perspective of the witness. In this way, it is argued, Weiss’s narrative enables an identification with the mute experience of destruction while converting that experience into a future-oriented political force: the emergence and continuation of collective struggle...
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The Warsaw Ghetto, Seen from the Screening Room: The Images That Dominate A Film Unfinished
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 135–157.
Published: 01 November 2014
... title refers. A Film Unfinished presents a paradigm of redoubled spectatorship: it is an Israeli film about the production of a German propaganda film, and it is also a film about the experience of encountering scenes from one's own past in such a film. The film's witnesses are positioned before...
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Work on Charisma: Writing Hitler's Biography
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (3 (114)): 95–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
... triggers in his modern biographers. While Fest aims to reenact Hitler's highly theatrical and emotional style, Kershaw disrupts Hitler's aesthetical mise-en-scène in his form of narrative, drawing on quotations and witness accounts. For Kershaw, charisma cannot be understood without reconstructing...
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Intact and Fragmented Bodies: Versions of Ethics “after Auschwitz”
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 31–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
...:
I must repeat—we, the survivors, are not the true witnesses. This is an uncom
fortable notion, of which I have become conscious little by little. . . . We sur
vivors are not only an exiguous but also an anomalous minority: we are those
who by their prevarications or abilities...
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In the Image: The Transformation of Cinematic Shoah Representations in Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Goodnight
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 95–112.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... Italics added.
New German Critique 123, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall 2014
DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2753600 © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc.
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96 In the Image
independent of its mediation through photographs, movies, books, and witness...
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Evidence and Narrative in Mérimée's Catilinarian Conspiracy
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 9–25.
Published: 01 February 2008
...
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political upheavals in ancient history. As he lists in his account of his sources—
or, as he calls them, “witnesses” (témoins) (fi rst at 38)5—Cicero, who was con-
sul that year, left four speeches, all of which Mérimée regards as genuine, how-
ever much they were written...
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National Socialism as Docudrama: On Programmed Ambivalence in Heinrich Breloer's Speer and Hitler
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (3 (102)): 61–74.
Published: 01 November 2007
... confron-
tation with history as it really was, others, like Elie Wiesel, saw the docudrama
as “an insult to those who perished and to those who survived.”3 In this sense,
the dying of the last remaining historical witnesses is the essential precondi-
tion for the current interpretative turn...
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Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 97–126.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., the chemical evidence, the speed of the fi re pattern, inconsistencies in
Tobias’s book, and contradictions in the voluminous trial testimony.3 Over the
years the reputations of numerous witnesses and the historians engaged in the
controversy have been besmirched, sometimes leading to legal battles...
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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
... Farocki’s film. He turns his attention to a filmic document and explores
how it can be read. By drawing on a specific example, his film examines how
the camp’s past can be made present at a time when authority over the interpre-
tation of that past no longer lies with the witnesses but with later...
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Between History and Fiction
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 83–95.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of the Elders of Zion
Given the massive success of the Protocols and the deep worries caused
by the text, even in levelheaded, enlightened circles, it was imperative to solve
the mystery of its origins quickly. But this was the hour of the self-proclaimed
witnesses and experts, the braggarts...
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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
... who could not witness that elsewhere.
As a translator of Kafka by choice and a translator of Birkenau by neces-
sity, Levi distinguishes himself from Kafka through his abiding ethical prefer-
ence for the conative function of aesthetic language—the one among Roman
Jakobson’s six poetic...
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Fragile Matters: Literature and the Scene of Torture
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Dominic , 213 – 35 . London : Tate . Reemtsma Jan Philipp . 2002 . Die Gewalt spricht nicht: Drei Reden . Stuttgart : Reclam . Rosen Philip Apfelbaum Nina . 2002 . Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims...
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Jewish Revenge on the German Screen
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New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 107–129.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., the witnesses to the still image—the elderly men and women—counter the absolute historicizing effect of the medium of the photograph in this scene of remembrance that is much more subtle than that of Schindler’s List . Those pictured in the photograph may be long dead, but the legacy of their resistance lives...
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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
... ingredient for a successful conspiracy, yet it hin-
ders the transfer of knowledge that can bring a conspiracy to light. To punish
conspirators who have been apprehended before committing a crime is to
risk punishing innocent men. Evidence for a conspiracy often derives from
witnesses whose motives...
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