Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Winter 2-9-2015 Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film Dana Lynne Capage Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Capage, Dana Lynne, "Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film" (2015). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2232. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2229 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film by Dana Lynne Capage A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in German Thesis Committee: Timm Menke, Chair Steven Nyole Fuller Kathleen A. Godfrey Portland State University 2015 Abstract Processing the Holocaust and its disruption to society has emerged as a significant preoccupation, both privately and publicly, since the war ended almost seventy years ago. By taking up the topic, contemporary artists, often called the "third generation," die Enkel or die Dritten in German, argue that grappling with the past is a process that cannot yet be laid to rest. The cultural production of some of these artists is the focus of this study. Some, like German literary scholar Ernestine Schlant, have argued that past efforts to process history have been lacking.