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Synopsis: Mediation at the
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the
memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive
ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and
theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial
experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors.
Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book
recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial
through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its
object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement
explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose
codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of
Holocaust remembrance.
