Der Kampf um die europäische Erinnerung

Leggewie, Claus; Lang, Anne

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“…Finally, the decision to appoint her at least in part stemmed from the underrepresentation of Eastern European perspectives on the Committee of Experts and the criticism from Polish commentators in particular of its report's allegedly heavily Western European bias (Sauerland, ; Trüpel, , p. 187). More generally, MEPs from the new Eastern European EU Member States had actively lobbied for many years as part of the broader ‘fight over European remembrance’ (Leggewie, ) for changing the EP's own remembrance culture. They were keen to include the experience of Stalinism on a par with National Socialism as two totalitarian systems and sides of the same coin, and to insert Eastern European suffering under Stalinism and communism more effectively into pan‐European discourses (Neumayer, 2015; Troebst, ) – demands that Vovk van Gaal supported and which effectively downgraded the prevalent German and Western European discourse about the singularity of the Shoah.…”

Section: Curators and Historians Co‐operating On A European History Mmentioning

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Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project

Kaiser

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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Concerned about the EU's apparent lack of cultural legitimacy, EU institutions have increasingly engaged in the transnational politics of history to enhance European identity and foster EU legitimacy. The House of European History museum project in Brussels marks a high point in the European Parliament's history politics. Based on document analysis and interviews, an analysis of the project's origins and evolution highlights the narrow limits of cultural engineering from above by EU institutions, however. The constraining dissensus in EU politics has forced the European Parliament to rely entirely on the curators and professional historians to legitimize its museum as one that conforms to prevailing curatorial and historical standards. As a result, the first permanent exhibition differs markedly from the original plan. Its narrative has become East Europeanized and the history of European integration proper has been marginalized.

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Section: Curators and Historians Co‐operating On A European History Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project

Kaiser

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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“…market. 2 By exploring interconnections between two great European traumas, the Holocaust and the Gulag (Assmann 2013, Leggewie andLang 2011), they contest the view of the Holocaust as the pivotal trauma of Europe and at the same time recontextualise the Holocaust in its specific local environment.…”

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The reconfiguration of the European Archive in contemporary German-Jewish migrant-literature

Ortner

2017

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A considerable number of Eastern European migrant authors of Jewish origin are currently lifting Holocaust memory to a new level. Writing in German about events taking place in remote areas of the world, they expand the German framework of memory from a national to a transnational one. By partaking in reconsidering what is ‘vital for a shared remembering’ of Europe, this branch of writing reflects the European Union’s political concern for integrating the memories of the socialistic regimes in European history writing without relativising the Holocaust. In Vielleicht Esther, Katja Petrowskaja consults various national and private archives in order to recount the history of the mass shooting of over 30,000 Ukrainian Jews at Babij Jar – a canyon near Kiev. Thus, she ‘carries’ a marginalised event of the Holocaust into the German framework of memory and uncovers the layers of amnesia that have not only concealed the event amongst the Soviet public but also distorted and for ever made inaccessible her family’s past.

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“…C'est dans ce contexte que s'enracinent entre autres les travaux de Claus Leggewie, politiste à l'université de Giessen, selon lequel les grandes catastrophes du long XX e siècle pourraient servir de points d'ancrage et de départ pour fonder une conscience historique européenne. Leggewie croit qu'il pourrait être possible, en prenant en compte l'histoire des migrations mais aussi celle de la « success story européenne » depuis 1945, de poser les bases d'une identité européenne du « plus grand peuple pas encore entièrement constitué au monde » 52 .…”

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Histoire du temps présent et culture mémorielle en Europe

Cornelißen¹

2016

Histoire, Économie &Amp; Société

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Der Kampf um die europäische Erinnerung

Cited by 66 publications

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Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project

Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project

The reconfiguration of the European Archive in contemporary German-Jewish migrant-literature

Histoire du temps présent et culture mémorielle en Europe

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