Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

145. German Culture and Political Violence: Representing the Red Army Fraction

8:45–10:00 p.m., Columbus A and B, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century German Literature

Presiding: Paul Michael Lützeler, Washington Univ.

1. “From Protest to Political Violence: The Repercussions of the Red Army Fraction in West Germany,” Imke Brust, Penn State Univ., University Park

2. “‘Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht!’: Political Violence and Popular Culture in the Seventies,” Stephan K. Schindler, Washington Univ.

3. “Burnt Pictures: Gerhard Richter, Ernst Volland, and the Red Army Fraction,” Ilka Rasch, Furman Univ.

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