Transnational Politics of Aesthetics: Return Migration and the Cultural

Reconstruction in Germany after 1945

research project seed funding 2011-12

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): 475-95.

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/editionco-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 Brandtreturned from exile in Norway in 1948

Chancellor of Germany 1969-74