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...
Abstract: This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into ...
The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and th...
Liliane Crips, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a social-democratic eugenist In the present context o...
This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human exp...
[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...
Presented Master's thesis deals with euthanasia in the novel "Ikarien" by German author Uwe Timm. Th...
This article addresses German science fiction novels from the last ten to fifteen years, specificall...
Abstract: The lived context of euthanasia under the Nazis is established through four brief nar-rati...
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism,...
It should be no surprise to the readers of this journal that the intersection of eugenics, psychia-t...
Eugenics is not a nineteenth-century invention. You can talk about it since the appearance of the fi...
The idea in Nazi-Germany of a “pure” Germany culminated in the systematic murder of millions of peop...
Kühl S. The Relationship between Eugenics and the so-called Euthanasia Action in Nazi Germany: A Eug...
This dissertation examines the practice of eugenic sterilisation of women in Nazi Germany, specifica...
Abstract: This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into ...
The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and th...
Liliane Crips, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a social-democratic eugenist In the present context o...
This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human exp...
[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...
Presented Master's thesis deals with euthanasia in the novel "Ikarien" by German author Uwe Timm. Th...
This article addresses German science fiction novels from the last ten to fifteen years, specificall...
Abstract: The lived context of euthanasia under the Nazis is established through four brief nar-rati...
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism,...
It should be no surprise to the readers of this journal that the intersection of eugenics, psychia-t...
Eugenics is not a nineteenth-century invention. You can talk about it since the appearance of the fi...
The idea in Nazi-Germany of a “pure” Germany culminated in the systematic murder of millions of peop...
Kühl S. The Relationship between Eugenics and the so-called Euthanasia Action in Nazi Germany: A Eug...
This dissertation examines the practice of eugenic sterilisation of women in Nazi Germany, specifica...
Abstract: This paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into ...
The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and th...
Liliane Crips, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a social-democratic eugenist In the present context o...