Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Staff Publications

Bookcover Exhibiting Violence

edited by Joachim von Puttkamer and Dorothea Warneck

Exhibiting Violence

Special Issue of the Przegląd Historyczny

Przegląd Historyczny
ISBN 0033-2186
Warszawa 2016
15 pages

Bearing in mind that the First World War marked the beginning of a new form of exhibiting war and violence in museums and sparked broader discussions as to how to include and exhibit civilian suffering, the experience of total destruction as to how to include and exhibit civilian suffering, the experience of total destruction and widespread death, the central aim of this workshop was to discuss the origins of presenting violence and war in museums both in Western and East Central Europe during and directly after the First World War.