Juristische und Epische Verfremdung. Fritz Bauers Kritik am Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963–1965) und Peter Weiss’ Dramatische Prozessbearbeitung Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965)

Authors

Kerstin Steitz, Old Dominion UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

DOI

10.1353/gsr.2017.0004

Publication Title

German Studies Review

Volume

40

Issue

1

Pages

79-101

Abstract

Beginning with the influences of Schiller's humanist ideals on Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer's expectations of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial as legal working through of the past, this article compares the Holocaust narrative created by the West German criminal trial to Peter Weiss's reworking of the transcripts Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesangen. The article aims to show that literature is able to convey and commemorate aspects of the Holocaust that German criminal law misrepresents and omits.

Original Publication Citation

Steitz, K. (2017). Legal and epic alienation. Fritz Bauer's critique of the Frankfurt Auschwitz process (1963-1965) and Peter Weiss' dramatic process processing the investigation. Oratorio in 11 songs (1965). German Studies Review, 40(1), 79-101.

Repository Citation

Steitz, Kerstin, "Juristische und Epische Verfremdung. Fritz Bauers Kritik am Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963–1965) und Peter Weiss’ Dramatische Prozessbearbeitung Die Ermittlung. Oratorium in 11 Gesängen (1965)" (2017). World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications. 1.
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