Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001

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CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London UK. CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York UK. MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London UK. SEÁN ALLAN is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. He studied at Emmanuel College Cambridge and at the Humboldt Universität in what was then East Berlin. From 2001-2016 he worked at the University of Warwick before moving to St Andrews in 2016 as Professor of German. His main research areas regard the culture of the European Enlightenment interdisciplinary approaches to the mediation of music and the visual arts as well as translation and translation studies. He is the author of The Plays of Heinrich von Kleist: Ideals and Illusions (1996) and The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist: Fictions of Security (Camden House 2001). He is the co-editor of a special edition of German Life and Letters entitled Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (2011); the co-editor of the volumes Kleist Education and Violence: The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics and Konstruktive und destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2012) and Re-Imagining DEFA: East German Cinema in its National and Transnational Contexts (2016); and the co-author of the monograph Unverhoffte Wirkungen: Erziehung und Gewalt im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (2014). His most recent book Screening Art: Modernism and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (2019) investigates questions of intermediality and spans not only film but also literature music and the visual arts in post-war cinema. Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick