Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past

Contributors

Contributors Marc Buggeln is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Bremen with a grant from the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. His dissertation is entitled “The Satellite Camp System of the Concentration Camp Neuengamme.” He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals WerkstattGeschichte and Sozial.Geschichte. Jeffry M. Diefendorf is a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II (Oxford, 1993) and, as editor, Rebuilding Europe’s Bombed Cities (New York, 1990) and Lessons and Legacies, volume 6, New Currents in Holocaust Research (Chicago, 2004). Jan Otakar Fischer is an architect, journalist, and critic living in Berlin. He has written widely on architecture and urbanism for such publications as the Harvard Design Magazine, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Architectural Record, and Architecture magazine. He is cofounder of the Lexia International Berlin Architecture Program. Natasha Goldman received her Ph.D. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester in 2002. She teaches at the University of Texas, El Paso, as an assistant professor of art history. Her research and teaching concentrate on contemporary art, theory, and public space, speci‹cally examining post-Holocaust aesthetics and Holocaust memorials . She has published in exhibition catalogs and has a forthcoming article in Art Journal entitled “Israeli Holocaust Memorial Strategies at Yad Vashem: From Silence to Recognition.” She currently is revising her manuscript “Missing Absence: Trauma and National Memorials to the Holocaust ” for publication. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is a professor and Head, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin in Ireland. Her books include German Architecture for a Mass Audience (London and New 303 York, 2000), Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism (Cambridge, 1997), and the edited collection Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War (Minneapolis, 2006). Paul B. Jaskot is an associate professor of modern art and architectural history at DePaul University. He is the author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor, and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (London and New York, 2000), as well as many essays on art and politics during the Nazi period. His current project focuses on the political reception of the Nazi past and postwar German art. Annah Kellogg-Krieg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her upcoming dissertation is on architecture, historic preservation, and medievalism in the city of Breslau/Wroclaw from 1860 to 1960. Brian Ladd is a research associate in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (Chicago, 1997) and The Companion Guide to Berlin (Suffolk, UK, 2004). Inge Marszolek is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Bremen University. She is the author of many studies on such themes as popular culture and media history in Germany, power and society in the National Socialist and postwar eras, and wartime exchanges of letters and photography. Her many publications include, coedited with A.v. Saldern, Radio zwischen Lenkung und Ablenkung, volume 1, Radio in the Third Reich, and volume 2, Radio in the Early GDR (Tübingen, 1998). Susan Mazur-Stommen is a research associate at the University of California , Riverside, where she completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology in 2002. Her book Engines of Ideology: Urban Renewal in Rostock, Germany, 1990–2000 (Berlin, 2005), an ethnography of a small city in former East Germany, is now available in the United States from Transaction Publishers . She can be reached via her Web site, http://www.susanmazur.com. Michael Meng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working on a dissertation entitled “From Destruction to Preservation: Jewish Sites in Germany and Poland after the Holocaust.” He has published essays in Central European History and Contemporary European History. 304 Contributors Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is an associate professor of history at Fair‹eld University . He is the author of Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments , and the Legacy of the Third Reich (Berkeley, 2000), which appeared in German translation in 2004 as Architektur und Gedächtnis: München und Nationalsozialismus, Strategien des Vergessens (Munich, 2004). He is also the author of...