Transnational Politics of Aesthetics: Return Migration and the Cultural Reconstruction in Germany after 1945 research project seed funding

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

Zwischen gestern und morgen/Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (dir. Harald Braun, 1947) Der Ruf/The Last Illusion (dir. J. v. Baky, 1948/49

The Murderers Are among Us (Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)

Ernst Toller Kurt Tucholsky Stefan Zweig Walter Benjamin

Else Lasker-Schüler

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

outcomes…

“Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf” Feuchtwanger Studies 3 (2013): Article on returning migrant Fritz Kortner for a special issue of Feuchtwanger Studies on Remigration

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:

understanding exile

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 blinde Göttin (1932/33) Nie wieder Friede! (1933/36)

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

Willy Brandt returned from exile in Norway in 1948 Chancellor of Germany