Reframing Antifascism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Memories of Resistance

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 1-24

3. ‘The Radio Today Is Our History’: Greta Kuckhoff’s Radio Broadcasts and Speeches

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 25-55

4. Fashioning the Self and the Recipient in Letters: Kuckhoff’s Correspondence

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 56-82

5. Exhibiting the ‘Red Orchestra’

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 83-114

6. From Einheit to Die Weltbühne: Kuckhoff’s Journal Articles on Resistance

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 115-146

7. A Film without a Protagonist? KLK an PTX: Die Rote Kapelle

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 147-177

8. From the Rosary to the Nightingale: Memory as Published and Unpublished Autobiography

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 178-213

9. Conclusion: Genre and Memory — Repetition as a Way of Knowing

   • Joanne Sayner

   Pages 214-228

10. Back Matter

    Pages 229-284

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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 Using previously unpublished sources, this book traces the interventions of this key figure and raises provocative questions about remembering antifascism in contemporary Germany.

• Memory Studies
• GDR and Nazism
• Women's Writing
• Contemporary German Literature
• Cultural Theory
• fascism
• Germany
• history

'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

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Joanne Sayner

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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