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Laura Petersen
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Practices of Restitution
Law and Aesthetics in Modern Germany
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Index

Page numbers in “italics” refer to figures and followed by “n” refer to footnotes.

Aboriginal people. See Australian Indigenous people
abstraction, 151, 155, 161, 161n112
Adorno, Theodor, 3–4, 39, 76, 83n46
aftermath, definition of, 11
Ah Kee, Vernon, 147n71
Alternative für Deutschland (political party), 191n66
aposiopesis, 105
apostille, 109
Arendt, Hannah, 12–14, 197
Argentina, genocide in, 199n86
art works, restitution of, 4n14, 127
Assmann, Aleida, 138
‘Audiatur’ (pseudonym), 49–50, 49n69, 50n70
Auerbach, Frank, 111–115
Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit, 3
Auschwitz, 76, 102, 156, 210
deportations to, 202n99
trials, 88, 91, 122
See also Richter, Gerhard, works of, Birkenau
Australian Indigenous people, 143, 147n71, 166, 171n2
Austria, 72, 98, 121. See also Vienna
Bäcker, Heimrad, 17, 98–109, 121
biography of, 98–99
use of citation by, 99, 101–108
literary method of, 85, 99–101, 123, 140
and transcripts, 75–76
works of
nachschrift. See transcripts
nachschrift 2, 98
transcript, 72, 98–109
Barjac (France), 137, 137n45, 139n52
Barkan, Elazar, 6
Bauer, Fritz, 91–92, 95, 122
Bauhaus, 40, 41n32
Bavarian Quarter (Berlin), 196–208, 217
Bayerischer Platz (Berlin), 196, 201, 206, 216
‘Be Berlin’ (slogan), 179
Bebelplatz (Berlin), 18, 181, 183, 183n48, 219
Bechhöfer, Susi, 117n167
BEG (Federal Compensation Act), 42n37, 43, 45, 54–56, 64n121
Benjamin, Walter, 197
Berlant, Lauren, 74
Berlin City Library, 35, 69, 222
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 188n56
Berlin Wall, 174, 188
Berliner Stadtbibliothek. See Berlin City Library
Berman, Adolf, 178
Berriedale Bay (Hobart), 146
Beuys, Joseph, 184n51
Bloch, Ernst, 50, 177
books
in art, 138, 183. See also Judenplatz, Vienna; Kiefer, Anselm, works of, Sternenfall; Ullman, Micha, Bibliothek / Library
burning of, 132, 138, 182, 183n48, 223. See also Bebelplatz (Berlin)
See also libraries
Bowen Bridge (Hobart), 143
Bowen, John, 143
Brandenburg Gate, 180, 185, 188
Brandt, Willy, 218
Braunes Haus (Munich), 133
Buchen, 137
Buchenwald, 11, 69
Buchloh, Benjamin, 136, 153
Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice), 45, 48
Bundestag, 4, 150, 190. See also Reichstag
bureaucracy, 29, 36, 43, 56–60
case notes
and Walter Schwarz, 20, 31, 41–49
cases, legal, 74–75, 123–124
Celan, Paul, 15–16, 77, 220
Central Institute for Art History (Munich), 29, 132–135, 139, 222
Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Victims of War and Tyranny. See Neue Wache (New Guardhouse, Berlin)
Chile, 206n113
Code of Hammurabi, 173
collaborators, 177, 205, 207
Combrink, Thomas, 90
Cook, Captain, 171n2
counter-memorials, 184, 216
counter-monuments, 184, 184n50
Dachau, 131–132
Demnig, Gunter, 170, 208–216, 209. See also Stolpersteine (Stumbling-stones)
Denkbild, 39–40, 40n30
Denkmal, 40n30, 170n1
Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas. See Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas. See Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered by the National Socialist Regime
Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen. See Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted under Nazism
Derwent River (Hobart), 143, 146, 148, 166
Deutsche Schrift (German script), 40
Diaz, Junot, 81
Didi-Huberman, Georges, 154–155, 160
Dragset, Ingar, 187–188, 187
Durant, Alan, 74
Ehrenmal, definition of, 170n1
Eichmann, Adolf, 60–61, 104, 178
Einstein, Albert, 197
Eisenman, Peter, 188–192, 189, 193, 194–195. See also Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Elmgreen, Michael, 187–188, 187
eugenics, 177
euthanasia, 153n83, 188n56
Falk, Gerhard, 50
Federal Compensation Act (BEG), 42n37, 43, 45, 54–55, 64n121
Fender Katsalidis, 142, 144
Feuilleton texts, 39
fiction
documentary, 77
and glosses, 51
hybrid, 78
and W. G. Sebald, 110, 117
Fischer, Samuel, 50
Fitzpatrick, Peter, 81
flags, 151, 162, 164, 205
Foster, Norman, 164–165
fragmentation, literary, 38–39, 84, 98, 105
Franklin, Ruth, 76
Frederick the Great (monument to), 180
Führerbau (Munich), 132, 150
Führerbunker (Berlin), 189, 189n58
Gaakeer, Jeanne, 22–23
gas chambers, 106, 160, 160n108
Gasseleder, Klaus, 114
Gates, Theaster, 149–150
Genovese, Ann, 23–25, 81, 128
Geschichte, definition of, 85
glossators, 38, 48–49, 64, 109
glosses
history of, 38–39
purpose of, 37, 63, 67–69
visual style of, 36, 38, 40–41
See also Schwarz, Walter
Goebbels, Joseph, 189
Golden, Audrey, 81
grave stones, 211
Grounds, Roy, 142
Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Buenos Aires, 199n86
guilt
German, 11
individual vs collective, 11–15
types of, 12
Gurlitt hoard, 127
Hallmann, Heinz W., 188n56
Hamburg, 184
Haus der [Deutschen] Kunst (Munich), 131, 148
Heaney, Seamus, 225
Henoch, Lilli, 208–209
Himmler, Heinrich, 62
Hiroshima in Tasmania, 144–145, 148
Hirsch, Martin, 66–67
Hitler, Adolf, 98, 149
handwriting of, 108
office of (Führerbau), 132, 150
suicide of, 189
Hitler Youth, 98
Hobart (Tasmania), 126, 143, 146. See also Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Höcke, Björn, 191n66
Holocaust
art about, 19, 127, 135–138, 208. See also Kiefer, Anselm
literature about, 19, 76, 79
Holstein, Peter, 33
homosexual people, memorial to, 187–188, 187
Hughes, Robert, 113–114
human rights, 191
humanism, 130
Humboldt University, 18, 180–181
Huyssen, Andreas, 87, 110
Indigenous people. See Australian Indigenous people
institutions, definition of, 28, 222
Interfunktionen magazine, 136
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), 82
International Military Tribunal (IMT), 102–103, 107
Jaspers, Karl, 11–12
Jewish Council, 213
Jewish Museum (Berlin), 183, 194n71
Jordan, Peter, 111–115
Judenplatz, Vienna, 183
jurisprudence
artistic, 126–131
and embodiment, 223
form and technique of, 26, 221
literary, 72–74
and literature, 123
responsibility for, 25
theatrical, 175
See also law
Jurisprudence in Restitution Law (journal). See Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht (Jurisprudence in Restitution Law) journal (RzW)
Karavan, Dani, 185–187, 185n52, 185, 216
Karlsruhe, 45
Kentridge, William, 115n165
Kiefer, Anselm, 5, 17
biography of, 135–138
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, 137
on the viewer, 131
works of
Ausbrennen des Landeskreises Buchen, 137
Besetzungen (Occupations), 135
Sternenfall, 17, 125–126, 135, 138–148, 166, 192
Kindertransport, 46, 112, 117
Kluge, Alexander, 17, 72, 83–97, 122
biography of, 83
literary method of, 72, 84, 87, 95–96, 123
and transcripts, 76
works of
Anita G., 88, 92
Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word is a Traitor, 90, 97
Case Histories, 85–86, 97
Experiment in Love, An, 90
Iaşi Pogrom, The, 93
Massacre as Reprisal for an Assassination in Odessa, 93
Unexpected Homecoming of a ‘Full Jewess’, The, 94
Witnesses from Another World, 95
Yesterday’s Girl, 92
Knobloch, Charlotte, 213
Koliusis, Nikolaus, 188n56
Köllwitz, Käthe, 181, 219
Kommentar, 42n36
Königsplatz (Munich), 132, 150
Kristallnacht, 146
Kühn, Fritz, 69
Küster, Otto, 60–61, 65
Lammert, Norbert, 152, 190, 206n109
Langbein, Hermann, 101–102
Langhans, C. G., 180
Lanzmann, Claude, 82n45
law
in Australia, 23–24, 147, 147n71
and the city, 174
and embodiment, 170, 175–176, 221–222
and geography, 174
historiography of, 101
and Jews in Germany, 196–208
language of, 60–62, 66, 73
and literature, 72–74
and monuments, 173
and physical posture, 175–176
responsibility to or for, 20–21
and walking, 175
See also jurisprudencelawscape, 174, 198, 199n88
Lebenslauf, 85n52, 111
libraries, 147, 222–223
at MONA (Tasmania), 144n62
and W. G. Sebald, 135
See also Berlin City Library; Central Institute for Art History (Munich); Kiefer, Anselm, works of, Sternenfall; Ullman, Micha, Bibliothek / Library
Liebeskind, Daniel, 183
Lin, Maya, 193n69
Linz Daily Newspaper (Local), 98
Lomax, Yve, 130
Mahnmal, definition of, 170n1
making-good-again, 27, 218–226
definition of, 2, 7–10, 224
See also restitution; Wiedergutmachung
Manderson, Desmond, 26, 75n12, 128n10, 171n3, 173
Mauthausen, 98
McVeigh, Shaun, 25, 81
Mechelen transit camp, 119
Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted under Nazism, 187–188, 187, 192
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 188–192, 189, 193, 212
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered by the National Socialist Regime, 185–187, 185, 217
Memorial to the Victims of the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Murders, 188n56
memorials, national, 170, 180, 188, 191, 216
memory, collective, 172
memory, cultural, 172
Minato, Chihiro, 144
minimalism, 193
Ministergärten (Berlin), 188
Mitläufer, 177, 205
MMJE. See Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
MONA. See Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
monument, definition of, 170n1
Munich, 131–135, 148–151, 167
Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, 133
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Hobart, Tasmania, 135, 137n45, 140–147
Nabokov, Vladimir, 115
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 19
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), 132
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (journal), 35
Neue Wache (New Guardhouse, Berlin), 1, 181, 181n41, 219
Nora, Pierre, 172, 172n7
Nuremberg Trials, 101
Okabe, Masao, 144
Olson, Greta, 20n68, 22–23, 73n4, 174n13
Olympic Games, 199n87
Orte des Erinnerns / Places of Remembrance, 196–208, 202, 203, 216
Osborne, Dora, 78n24, 215
Owens, Jesse, 149
Panofsky, Erwin, 130, 134, 134n30, 139
Pearce, James, 144
persona, definition of, 8n30
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, 174. See also lawscape
places of memory, 172
Places of Remembrance, 196–208, 202, 203, 216
poetry, concrete, 100–101, 104
Polke, Sigmar, 163
Potsdamer Platz (Berlin), 189–190
provenance, 28, 35, 223
pseudonyms, 31, 37, 49–52, 55
Rauch, Christian, 180
reception studies, 81
Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht (Jurisprudence in Restitution Law) journal (RzW), 31–37, 63
contents of, 40, 42
language of, 66
Reich Chancellery (Berlin), 189
Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court), 56
Reichstag, 150–153, 162–165. See also Bundestag; Richter, Gerhard, works of, Birkenau
Reinhardt, Max, 50
responsibility
of authors, 79–80
of beholders, 128, 130, 148, 161, 165, 206n113, 224
of Germans, 219
for law, 207–208
of passers-by, 205
of poets, 102
of the public, 168, 171
of readers, 81–83, 90
sites of, 223
to victims, 20–21
restitution
definition of, 4–5, 7, 176–177
and justice, 6
See also making-good-again; Wiedergutmachung
Richter, Gerhard, 5, 17–18, 136
biography of, 153–154
works of
Atlas, 153n83
Birkenau, 17, 125–126, 151–167
Schwarz, Rot, Gold, 151, 162, 164
Riefenstahl, Leni, 149
Risdon Cove (Hobart), 143
Roma people, 185–187, 217
Rothberg, Michael, 8, 14, 76n17
Rückerl, Adalbert, 101, 103–104
Rush, Peter, 24, 81
RzW Journal. See Rechtsprechung zum Wiedergutmachungsrecht (Jurisprudence in Restitution Law) journal (RzW)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 81n36
Schlegel, August Wilhelm and Friedrich, 39
Schlusche, Günter, 189
Schlussstrich, 34
Schnock, Frieder, 196, 202, 203
Schöneberg, 196–208
Schwarz, Walter, 198
biography of, 16, 31, 36, 50, 65, 69n136
glosses of, 42–48
pseudonyms of, 37, 49–52, 64
and responsibility to law, 20
works of, Spoken Into the Wind?, 65–68
Schwurgericht, 104
Scott, Walter, 52
Sebald, W. G., 5, 16, 72, 109–121
biography of, 79
on the role of literature, 96
and transcripts, 76
works of
Austerlitz, 116–120
Emigrants, The, 111–116
Sebaldus, St, 52
Serota, Nicholas, 154
shoes, 177–178
Sinka, Margit, 198n82, 204
Sinti people, 185–187, 217
Sobibor, 104–106
Solnit, Rebecca, 175
Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 1, 9, 21, 219, 220
Stih, Renata, 17n65, 196, 202, 203
Stolperschwellen (Stumbling-thresholds), 209
Stolpersteine (Stumbling-stones), 18, 114, 170, 208–216, 209
Stuttgart, 44, 80, 83
Stuttgart Literaturhaus, 80, 123
Tasmania, 17, 135, 138. See also Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Testamentsvollstrecker, 36
Theresienstadt, 51, 86, 117
Thierse, Wolfgang, 190
Tiergarten, 187–188
Tiergarten (Berlin), 185, 188n56
transcripts, 75–76, 124
etymology of, 75
Troost, Paul Ludwig, 132, 134, 148–149
typography, 89
Antiqua, 40
and concrete poetry, 100
Deutsche Schrift, 40
Fraktur, 40, 202n99
gothic, 41
italic, 35, 40–41
Roman, 40
significance of, 40–41
Ullman, Micha, Bibliothek / Library, 181–185, 182
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), 178
University of Heidelberg, 13
University of Munich, 133, 150
Unter den Linden, 170, 180
vandalism, 171n2
Verfolgte, der (the Persecuted), 46
Vergangenheitsbewältigung, 3
Vienna, 17, 72, 98, 183
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC), 193n69
Villa Grimbaldi (Chile), 206n113
Vismann, Cornelia, 73n3, 79n29, 130, 139
Vollmer, Antje, 190
walking, 169, 171, 214
Walsh, David, 137n45, 142, 144. See also Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 218
Warschauer Kniefall (Warsaw Bended Knee), 218
Washington, DC, 178, 193n69
Weiner, Lawrence, 149
Weiss, Peter, 91
Wetzlar, 56
Whiteread, Rachel, 183
Wiedergutmachung
in Austria, 99n94
and bureaucracy, 56–60
definition of, 1–4, 33n3
delays in, 54–56
history of, 32–35, 34n4
modes of, 2
satire of, 32, 65
Wilmersdorf, 50
Wilms, Ursula, 188n56
Windschuttle, Keith, 143n61
Wowereit, Klaus, 179
Young, Alison, 129, 206, 209
Zelger, Sabine, 82
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich). See Central Institute for Art History (Munich)
Zolkos, Magdalena, 6

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