3G. Positions of the Third Generation after the Second World War and the Shoah in Contemporary Literature and Arts

该网络的研究涉及对第二次世界大战和大屠杀后第三代(3G)的文学、视觉、电影和表演作品进行跨学科和系统化的分析和解释。在他们的作品中，国家社会主义的前肇事者、受害者和旁观者的孙辈在纪念和表现大屠杀和世界大战以及他们自己的现在方面，以一种与前几代人截然不同的方式定位自己。着眼于过去，第三代作品被一种记忆的中介性意识主导，这种意识是自我反省地呈现的，而作家和艺术家的记忆作品往往与当代冲突联系在一起，从而与他们自己的现在联系在一起。尽管受害者后代和国家社会主义肇事者的后代各自借鉴了截然不同的纪念经验和文化，但可以说第三代人的纪念工作的特点是意识到交流记忆正在结束，因此有必要以传授知识和记忆为媒介传授知识和记忆。3G语料库的收集、分析和语境化是第一次在讲德语的研究背景下系统地收集和审查的，它将有条不紊地补充学术、文学、新闻、艺术和策展工作之间的知识和思想转移。为此，该网络的活动将采取讲习班和会议的形式，并辅之以阅读、电影放映、作家/艺术家演讲和圆桌讨论等配套节目。

The network’s research deals with the transdisciplinary and systematizing analysis and interpretation of literary, visual, filmic and performance works of the third generation (3G) after the Second World War and the Shoah. In their works, the grandchildren of former perpetrators, victims and bystanders of National Socialism position themselves in a manner distinct from former generations with regards to both the remembrance and representation of the Shoah and the World War and their own present. With a view to the past, works of the third generation are dominated by a consciousness of the mediality of remembrance that is self-reflexively presented, while the memory-work of the writers and artists is often connected to contemporary conflicts and thus linked to their own present. Notwithstanding the radically different experiences and cultures of remembrance that descendants of victims and perpetrators of National Socialism draw on respectively, it is – such is a fundamental conviction of the network’s research – possible to speak of a third generation whose commemorative work is characterized by an awareness that communicative memory is ending and that therefore medial imparting of knowledge and remembrance is necessary. The collection, analysis and contextualization of the 3G-corpus, which is as such systematically collected and examined for the first time in a German speaking research context, will be methodically complemented by the transfer of knowledge and ideas between scholarly, literary, journalistic, artistic and curatorial work. The network’s activities will for this reason take the form of workshops and conferences that are complemented by an accompanying program of readings, film screening, writers’ / artists’ talks and round table discussions.