Public evening lecture by Professor Dr. Anja Tippner (Fellow of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald / University of Hamburg)
With the exception of Babyn Yar, the "Holocaust by bullets" is not part of global Holocaust remembrance. The scope of Russian-language and Ukrainian literature on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union was and is limited. Known facts are constantly being rediscovered. The lecture explains the reasons for the limited circulation of Holocaust literature in the Soviet and post-Soviet context and examines the effects on the culture of remembrance.
Anja Tippner is Professor of Slavic Literary Studies at the University of Hamburg. She studied German, English and Slavic Studies in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Leningrad. After completing her doctorate, she worked as a lecturer and research assistant at Charles University in Prague, the University of Kiel and was a professor at the University of Salzburg. Her research focuses on forms and strategies of autobiographical and documentary writing, representations of the Shoah and post-catastrophic narratives from a comparative perspective, Jewish literature in East Central Europe and translation cultures.
Moderation: Professor Dr. Andreas Ohme
