Kluger lecture 2
Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (Austria became part of Germany in 1938)
Bayerischer Platz Memorial in the Schöneberg district of Berlin
Renate Stih and Frieder Schnoch (artists)
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/remembrance/gallery3.html
II. Kluger’s defiance
Disney’s Snow White (1937) came to
p.45
Watching Snow White with Nazis
‘Who gets to live in the castle?’
Nazi Propaganda: Kluger views and reads it
p. 51
Jud Süß (1940) Directed by Veit Harlan
Starring Ferdinand Marian as Josef Süß Oppenheimer
http://blog.chosun.com/web_file/blog/177/22677/PosterJudSuss%5B1%5D.jpg
Der Stürmer: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/images/sturmer/dsrm34.jpg
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/images/sturmer/ds11.jpg
III. More Counter-maneuvers:
Literature: Kluger as reader, reciter, and author of poetry.
Theodor Adorno : “To write poetry after
1949 “Cultural Criticism and Society” generally quoted out of context.
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) http://www.nysol.se/schillerinstitutet/schiller/index-filer/schiller.jpeg
An die Freude/Ode to Joy (1785)
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire drunken we are ent’ring
Heavenly, thy holy home!
Thy enchantments bind together,
What did custom stern divide,
Every man becomes a brother,
Where thy gentle wings abide.
Example of a Schiller poem (translated) with rhyme and meter:
Hope (1797)
translated by William F. Wertz
All people discuss it and dream on end
Of better days that are coming,
After a golden and prosperous end
They are seen chasing and running
The world grows old and grows young in turn,
Yet doth man for betterment hope eterne.
’Tis hope delivers him into life,
Round the frolicsome boy doth it flutter,
The youth is lured by its magic rife,
It won’t be interred with the elder;
Though he ends in the coffin his weary lope,
Yet upon that coffin he plants—his hope.
It is no empty, fawning deceit,
Begot in the brain of a jester,
Proclaimed aloud in the heart it is:
We are born for that which is better!
And what the innermost voice conveys,
The hoping spirit ne’er that betrays.
Classical meter counters the chaos and un-reason of the camps
Kluger’s two
Published in summer of 1945 Public Writing
p.154
IV. Family:
Mother: Kluger writes that her mother had always been paranoid and
that in
pp.96-97
See-saw motion of Kluger’s recollections: Stark criticism and then mitigating reflection.
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Mother being punished in Auschwitz (111)
The positive portrait of Kluger’s mother—also reported by Kluger
Father:
His fate emerges in dialogue with a reader
Brother:
“Where there is no grave, we are condemned to go on mourning” (80)
Details during dinner with colleagues at
