Describing the Indescribable: German Authors after the Holocaust with Cara Pickens-Noble, A&S '17

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Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: Describing the Indescribable: German authors after the Holocaust

Instructor:  Cara Pickens-Noble, A&S '17

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November 2, 2024 - December 07, 2024 (6 Sessions)  

Saturday,  6:00PM ET - 8:00PM ET  

Virtual via Zoom 

 

 

Course Description: In this course we will focus on post-Holocaust literature by West German authors, specifically the writings of W.G. Sebald. In his book “ The Emigrants”, Sebald gives voice to the life of people who were forced to react to circumstances beyond their control . For their safety,  they had to leave the country of their birth. We will explore how differently the protagonists coped with their uprooted lives  and yet how similar their lives ended, often prematurely, often by suicide. 
 

Sebald is one of the few, if not the only, writer of the post-Holocaust era who gives voice to the culture and the lives that were destroyed. Sebald is also a master of nuances, his language demands close attention, and more often than not, his meaning shines through in sub clauses ; i.e. one has to read between the lines. These narratives are consistent with a post-Holocaust view associated with fragmentation, disruption, alienation and a general sense of hopelessness.

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ABOUT Cara Pickens-Noble

I was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany as the oldest child in a merchant family. Hamburg, at that time, was a fairly conservative environment with a fair number of do’s and dont’s. At the age of 25, I moved to Bavaria to attend boarding school. Being with children from all over Germany and quite a few from other countries made me realize that not all families were structured like mine and did not live by the same, mostly internalized, code of conduct. 

At about the age of 12 or 13, I read Eugen Kogon’s “Der SS-Staat”,and it is no hyperbole when I say that I never looked at my country the same way. I started asking questions that were usually brushed off, or if an adult would actually talk about the past, it was strongly implied that this was the work of “others”, certainly not “us”. In the early 2000’s, I was living in Berlin where I first worked for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and later for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. By that time I had gained enough distance from my upbringing and was able to look at what happened in Germany during the Holocaust.

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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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