Taboos have been overcome, debt has been paid, and political and memorial correctness no longer serve as a muzzle; the young generation is repeatedly claimed to be the first which can accept German history without a sense of burden and speak freely about it. But is that really the case? Does not a sense of unease with the past still exist? Off the beaten path of academic literary studies, Kirstin Frieden examines the formats of different media segments such as performances, comedy, and new media (e.g., Facebook and YouTube). She shows evidence of new ways of talking about the Holocaust as well as a culture of memory that media-transforms the existing memory paradigm.
