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Selected Presentations & Appearances


Memory and Fiction: Revisiting Matti Geschonneck's Die Wannseekonferenz - 2024 Perilman Graduate Research Symposium · October 2024 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University / online

Matti Geschonneck's documentary drama "Die Wannseekonferenz" (2022) commemorates the 80th anniversary of the historic event. Though the film has received wide acclaim and international recognition, I examined how it balances documentary accuracy with fictional elements, raising questions about its influence on collective memory.

A New Wannsee Conference? Or: Holocaust Remembrance in Matti Geschonneck's Documentary Drama "Die Wannseekonferenz" (2022) and Correctiv's Staged Reading "Geheimplan gegen Deutschland" (2024) - 48th Annual Conference · September 2024 International Meeting or Conference German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Hedda Zinner zwischen Kommunismus und Erinnerungskultur - 16. Kongress · June 2024 International Meeting or Conference Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft, Leipzig

The presentation examines Hedda Zinner's drama in the context of antifascism, socialist ideology, and Jewish identity in her "Ravensbrücker Ballade" (1961). The analysis sheds light on the tensions and challenges faced by Jewish intellectuals and dramatists in the German Democratic Republic, thereby contributing to an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped socialist drama in the postwar period.

‘Swimming against the stream’: The theatrical career of Therese Giehse (1898-1975) - 47th Annual Conference · October 2023 International Meeting or Conference German Studies Association, Montreal, Canada