This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human experimentation in Kerstin Hensel’s novel Lärchenau (2008). Lärchenau chronicles a period of almost a century (1915–2007) in a small village in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg. The chapter draws on the work of Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich in order to argue that Hensel’s characters enact sado-masochistic behaviour patterns which echo the medical crimes of the Third Reich. Hensel’s novel – in part, a tribute to Ingeborg Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza/The Book of Franza (1978/1995) – centres on the geneticist Gunter Konarske who conducts a series of medical experiments on his wife Adele. Although Konarske is born in 1944, his practices b...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
This article addresses German science fiction novels from the last ten to fifteen years, specificall...
This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human exp...
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to explor...
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism,...
The idea in Nazi-Germany of a “pure” Germany culminated in the systematic murder of millions of peop...
Abstract: The lived context of euthanasia under the Nazis is established through four brief nar-rati...
Presented Master's thesis deals with euthanasia in the novel "Ikarien" by German author Uwe Timm. Th...
The issue of human rights violations by Nazi doctors has already been extensively described in the P...
This thesis is a historiographical study of the eugenics and euthanasia programs of Nazi Germany. It...
There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, ...
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to explor...
The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and th...
There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, ...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
This article addresses German science fiction novels from the last ten to fifteen years, specificall...
This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human exp...
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to explor...
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism,...
The idea in Nazi-Germany of a “pure” Germany culminated in the systematic murder of millions of peop...
Abstract: The lived context of euthanasia under the Nazis is established through four brief nar-rati...
Presented Master's thesis deals with euthanasia in the novel "Ikarien" by German author Uwe Timm. Th...
The issue of human rights violations by Nazi doctors has already been extensively described in the P...
This thesis is a historiographical study of the eugenics and euthanasia programs of Nazi Germany. It...
There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, ...
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to explor...
The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and th...
There has been no full evaluation of the numbers of victims of Nazi research, who the victims were, ...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
[EN] Kerstin Hensel’s literary universe is haunted by fallen heroes, outsiders and gregarious figure...
This article addresses German science fiction novels from the last ten to fifteen years, specificall...