Anna Koch – författare

Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries after the Holocaust. The book reveals Jews' complex and often changing feelings toward their former homes and highlights the ways in which three distinct national contexts—East German, West German, and Italian—shaped their answers to the question, is this home? Returning Italian and German Jews renegotiated their place in national communities that had targeted them for persecution and extermination. While most Italian Jews remained deeply attached to their home country, German Jews struggled to feel at home in the "country of murderers." Yet, some retained a sense of belonging through German culture and language or felt attached to a specific region or city. Still others looked to the future; socialist and communists of Jewish origin hoped to build a better Germany in the Soviet Occupied Zone. In all three postwar states, surviving Jews fought against persistent antisemitism, faced the challenge of recovering lost homes and possessions, struggled to make sense of their persecution, and tried to find ways to reclaim a sense of belonging. Wide ranging and moving, Home after Fascism enriches our understanding of Jews' homecoming experiences after 1945. It reveals the deep affection and persistent love people feel for their homes, the suffering that comes with losing them, and the challenges of a return.

Home after Fascism draws on a rich array of memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival research to tell the stories of Italian and German Jews who returned to their home countries after the Holocaust. The book reveals Jews' complex and often changing feelings toward their former homes and highlights the ways in which three distinct national contexts—East German, West German, and Italian—shaped their answers to the question, is this home? Returning Italian and German Jews renegotiated their place in national communities that had targeted them for persecution and extermination. While most Italian Jews remained deeply attached to their home country, German Jews struggled to feel at home in the "country of murderers." Yet, some retained a sense of belonging through German culture and language or felt attached to a specific region or city. Still others looked to the future; socialist and communists of Jewish origin hoped to build a better Germany in the Soviet Occupied Zone. In all three postwar states, surviving Jews fought against persistent antisemitism, faced the challenge of recovering lost homes and possessions, struggled to make sense of their persecution, and tried to find ways to reclaim a sense of belonging. Wide ranging and moving, Home after Fascism enriches our understanding of Jews' homecoming experiences after 1945. It reveals the deep affection and persistent love people feel for their homes, the suffering that comes with losing them, and the challenges of a return.

Even before World War II had ended, survivors, historians, writers, and artists tried to make sense of the Holocaust. To do so, they relied on belief systems and narratives that, as the bloc confrontation intensified, were increasingly shaped by Cold War thinking. Foregrounding the Cold War’s role in shaping Holocaust memory, this book highlights how the global conflict between East and West influenced research, legal proceedings, and collective as well as individual memories of the murder of European Jews. Contributions focusing on different parts of the world reveal commonalities, differences, and entanglements between Eastern and Western memories of the Holocaust. Examining Holocaust memory from various disciplinary perspectives, the authors highlight the many ways in which scholars, writers, artists, and survivors both countered and contributed to dominant narratives shaped by oppositional ideological stances. While such distinct ideological positions often mattered greatly, at other times a shared interest in bringing perpetrators to justice, commemorating victims, and providing testimony to the atrocities committed against Europe’s Jews led to cooperation and exchange across the Iron Curtain.

SMS von gestern Nacht – die neue Generation: die besten Chat-Verläufe DeutschlandsKurznachrichtendienste wie WhatsApp sind aus dem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Eine Art der Kommunikation, die oftmals kuriose Blüten treibt. Der ständige Drang, sich mitzuteilen, wird besonders amüsant, wenn ihm nachts nachgegeben wird: «Bin mit 47 Vorgarten-Flamingos aus Plastik in meinem Bett aufgewacht. Gibt''s dafür ''ne Erklärung?» Ob alkoholgeschwängerte Liebesbekundungen, philosophische Exkurse oder skurrile Alltagskonversationen – hier tobt sich Menschliches, Allzumenschliches auf unterhaltsame Weise aus.

Im Zwielicht der Nacht wird schon mal aus Versehen Schluss gemacht und nach dem Aufwachen erschrocken gerätselt, ob (und wenn ja, mit wem?!) man vielleicht Sex gehabt hat. Unter dem Motto «Welche SMS hättest du gestern Nacht besser nicht verschickt» stellen Anna Koch und Axel Lilienblum besonders lustige, schräge, peinliche und kryptische SMS zusammen. Ob alkoholgeschwängerte Liebesbekundungen, eindeutig zweideutige Nachrichten oder philosophische Exkurse in 160 Zeichen – Unterhaltung ist garantiert.

Die SMS der letzten Nacht ist nicht wie jede andere Kurznachricht. Sie erreicht einen aus dem Club, vom Klo einer fremden Wohnung oder vom steinigen Weg nach Hause. Sie ist unverblümt, bizarr, oft frivol, voller Emotionen und häufig an den Falschen adressiert. Unter dem Motto: «Welche SMS hättest du gestern Nacht besser nicht verschickt?» nimmt sich die Website www.chatvongesternnacht.de dieser kleinen Textkunstwerke des Alltags an. Das vorliegende Buch versammelt aus Zehntausenden anonymer Einsendungen die besten, lustigsten und merkwürdigsten Handybotschaften.

Nach den Bestsellern «Du hast mich auf dem Balkon vergessen» und «Ist meine Hose noch bei euch?» schicken Anna Koch und Axel Lilienblum ihre Leser bereits zum dritten Mal auf eine Reise durch die lustigsten und schönsten SMS-Nachrichten des letzten Jahres.Auf ihrer Website www.chatvongesternnacht.de sammeln sie seit 2009 kryptische Dialoge, fehlgeleitete Liebesbotschaften und andere Skurrilitäten aus dem Alltag der «Mobile Generation». Mit einer Auswahl aus Zehntausenden anonymer Einsendungen führt das vorliegende Buch wieder durch vierundzwanzig amüsante Stunden voller Geschichten, die das Leben selbst schrieb.