Reframing Antifascism

Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany.

'Of the various studies on the debate surrounding anti-Fascism and resistance in the GDR, Joanne Sayner's research into the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff provides a wealth of new material relating to this less well-known figure of Nazi resistance and the GDR public sphere. Most importantly, her book provides insights from the life of a woman in high positions fighting for an appropriate public remembrance of the anti-Fascist resisters she alone outlived.' - Modern Language Review

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Joanne Sayner is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Theory and German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published on German women's writing and the politics of remembering the GDR and Nazi pasts. Her previous book Women Without a Past?: German Autobiographical Writings and Fascism was published in 2007.

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Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany.

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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memories of Resistance 1. 'The Radio Today is Our History': Greta Kuckhoff's Radio Broadcasts and Speeches 2. Fashioning the Self and the Recipient in Letters: Kuckhoff's Correspondence 3. Exhibiting the 'Red Orchestra' 4. From Einheit to Die Weltbuhne: Kuckhoff's Journal Articles on Resistance 5. A Film without a Protagonist? KLK an PTX: Die Rote Kapelle 6. From the Rosary to the Nightingale: Memory as Published and Unpublished Autobiography Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index