Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

This article explores the memory-cultural significance of bodies in video testimonies of Holocaust survivors. While visibility plays an important role in fostering compassionate recognition of traumatic experiences, the analysis of specific body...

The workshop report outlines the doctoral project ›Aquatic Deaths. A Cinematic Motif Complex and its Gender and Media Theoretical Dimensions‹. Within this framework, a water related topos is explored that is used to represent psychotrauma in...

The concept of trauma has acquired such a range and heterogeneity that it seems appropriate to outline specific dimensions of meaning in more detail. Extreme traumatisation tears a gap in the continuum of psychic representability of experience,...

This comparative study explores the ways in which Israeli descendants of the Holocaust and descendants of the Cambodian genocide reconstitute ›discontinued‹ descendant-ancestor relationships with the personally never-known dead of the genocide....

Summary: The paper provides an overview of body-related consequences of physical, sexual, and emotional trauma. Body symptoms can be manifestations of activated stress physiology. However, numerous disorders can also be understood as effects of body...

Committed or suffered violence between collectives does not simply disappear. Its psychosocial consequences often persist for generations. They are transmitted consciously and unconsciously, non-verbally and paraverbally, interactively, and through...

This article examines the horizons of meaning and interpretation as well as the strategies of host families in whose living together a possible or actual traumatization of the young refugees they are accommodating becomes virulent. Based on...

Processes of migration and integration can produce trauma, but can also themselves be influenced by previous trauma. The example of a legend of Uira, an Urubu Indian (Kaapor), who was traumatized by the death of his son and for whom cultural rituals...

For young people with migration experiences, identity development is more difficult. They grow up in Germany, but through their parents they experience, as it were, a halved world with a mother country and a father country, or a country of origin of...

Especially during the initial period in the host country, refugees are often in danger of falling into severe identity crises because of displacement, radical context changes and acculturation processes. Already burdened and overburdened by...

The Mediterranean Sea is considered one of the deadliest of any known ›migration route‹ in the world. For years, thousands of people have been dying there every year trying to get into the European Union. In response to the increase of the...

With the help of the so-called Kindertransports to Great Britain, about 10.000 children and adolescents between the ages of three and 17 were rescued in the ten months before the outbreak of war on September 1st in 1939. This report provides an...

Considering the fact that more and more children and adolescents are being removed from their previous family and social relationships and are living in youth welfare institutions, the question arises as to whether and how these socially prescribed...

How do people live and survive in between the frontlines of war, in ›zones of counter-terrorist operation‹ and other situations marked by unlimited violence and the inextricable entanglement of legislation and arbitrariness, law and torture? On...

This article deals with sexualised violence against Jewish women in the National Socialist concentration and extermination camps. First, the various forms of violence in the camps explicitly affecting women are presented. In more detail, the article...