Author: Kobi Kabalek

Dr Michael Elm is long-term Lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service in the Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva. His main fields of research are film, trauma and cultural memory studies; German modernity in film and political philosophy; cross-cultural educational theory; and Holocaust studies. His publications include Zeugenschaft im Film. Eine erinnerungskulturelle Analyse filmischer Erzählungen des Holocaust (Berlin 2008), and “The Making of Holocaust Trauma in German Memory: Identity Formation in Germany through the Example of Robert Thalheim”s AND ALONG COME TOURISTS, ” in From Rejection to Acceptance: To be Jewish in 21th Century Germany (forthcoming).Dr Kobi Kabalek holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. The title of his dissertation is: “The Rescue of Jews and the Memory of Nazism in Germany.” His research focuses on cultural history, historical experience, and memory in Germany and Israel. His most recent publication (with Peter Carrier) is “Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory – A Conceptual Analysis, ” in The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory between and Beyond Borders (Berlin 2014).Dr habil. Julia B. Köhne is Guest Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin and Privatdozentin for Contemporary and Cultural History at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on cultural studies, media and film theory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the history of the body and of military psychiatry. Köhne is the author of Kriegshysteriker: Strategische Bilder und mediale Techniken militärpsychiatrischen Wissens, 1914–1920 (Husum 2009), and Geniekult in Geisteswissenschaften und Literaturen um 1900 und seine filmischen Adaptionen (Wien 2014). She edited Trauma und Film. Inszenierungen eines Nicht-Repräsentierbaren (Berlin 2012).