A

Abjection

Agamben, Giorgio

Altmann, Maria

Alicia (character in The Beguiled)

Anonyma

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

Archives

Arendt, Hannah

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
  • Human Condition, The
  • Men in Dark Times
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • “The Pariah as Rebel: We Refugees.” In The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age
  • with Heidegger, Martin
  • with Jonas, Hans
  • with McCarthy, Mary

Argentina

  • Buenos Aires
  • in German Doctor, The
  • Mapuche
  • harboring of Mengele, Josef See Mengele, Josef
  • Mossad’s Capture of Nazis
  • Patagonia
  • sheltering Nazi War Criminals
  • Wakolda. See Film, Wakolda and Puenzo, Lucia

Ash, Timothy Garton

Auden, Wystan Hugh (W.H.).
“Unknown Citizen”

Ausländer, Saul (character in Son of Saul)

Austria. See Bloch-Bauer, Adele

  • Government
  • See also Vienna
  • See also Woman in Gold

B

Badiou, Alain

Bachelard, Gaston

Barnouw, Dagmar

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Belvedere Gallery (Vienna)

Benhabib, Seyla

Benjamin, Walter

  • “Theses on Philosophy of History”

Berlin

  • in The Lives of Others
  • in Phoenix
  • in A Woman in Berlin
  • in Germany Year Zero post war See also Germany, GDR

Bettelheim, Bruno

Blanchot, Maurice

Bloch-Bauer, Adele

Bloch-Bauer, Ferdinand

Blücher, Heinrich

Blumenfeld, Kurt

Borges, Jorge Luis
“Sect of the Phoenix”

Bougnoux, Daniel

Buber, Martin

C

Capitalism

  • working conditions under

Caruth, Cathy

  • Literature in the Ashes of History
  • Trauma: Explorations in Memory
  • Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History

Caspari, Maya

Castration

Celan, Paul

Censorship

Chiesa, Lorenzo

Concentration Camps

  • Auschwitz
  • Bergen-Belson
  • Dachau
  • depiction in Son of Saul
  • escape from Gurs
  • role in Phoenix

Coppola, Sofia

Cullinan, Thomas

Crary, Jonathan

Czernin, Hubertus

D

Deleuze, Gilles

Derrida, Jacques

Deutsch, Helene

Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel von

Double, The

Dreyman, Georg (character in Lives of Others)

Dunst, Kirsten

E

Edwina (character in The Beguiled)

Eichmann, Adolf

Eldoc, Nora

Enzo (character in German Doctor)

Erasure. See Identity

Eve (character in German Doctor)

F

Fascism

Farnsworth, Martha (character in The Beguiled)

Farnsworth, Robert (character in The Beguiled)

Films

Freud, Sigmund.

Fynsk, Christopher

Germany

  • See also Berlin
  • Art, Nazi-Looted
  • Collaboration during Third Reich
  • GDR (former East Germany or DDR)
  • Holocaust. See The Holocaust
  • Medical Abuse
  • Nazi Doctors
  • Post-War
  • Reparations
  • Reunification
  • Stasi
  • Surveillance
  • Third Reich
  • White Rose Movement

Godard, Jean-Luc

Goebbels, Joseph

Grigg, Russell

H

Han, Byung-Chul

Hardwick, Elizabeth

Heidegger, Martin

Hemon, Aleksandar

Heterochromia

Hillers, Marta. See Anonyma

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

Holocaust

  • See also Germany

Home, perspective of (heim)

  • In “Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies” (in The Beguiled)
  • Weltanschauung, as opposed to
  • Hospitality

Hoss, Nina

I

Identity See also Erasure

  • in German Doctor, The
  • in Phoenix

Incest

Inheritance

  • Cultural
  • Dis-inheritance
  • Genetic

Imaginary, the

Israel

  • and Arendt, Hannah
  • and Argentina
  • Mossad
  • Settlement post-war
  • Trial of Eichmann. See Eichmann, Adolf
  • Zionism

J

James, William

Jerska, Albert (character in Lives of Others)

Jonas, Hans

jouissance (as used in Lacan)

Johnny (character in Phoenix)

K

Kaddish

Kantorowicz, Ernst

Keenan, Thomas

Klee, Paul

  • “Angelus Novus”

Kleinert, Voldmar

Klemperer, Victor

Klimt, Gustav

  • art of,
  • Bloch-Bauer, Adele
  • Woman in Gold (Dame en Or, originally The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer)

Köhler, Lotte

L

Lacan, Jacques

  • Ethics of Psychoanalysis, The
  • “L’étourdit.”(in Autres Écrits)
  • Feminine Sexuality, On: The Limits of Love and Knowledge
  • “On Psychoanalytic Discourse”
  • The Sinthome. See Sinthome, The

Lang, Fritz

Lanzmann, Claude

Levinas, Emmanuel

Librarian

  • in German Doctor, The

Lifton, Robert Jay

Lilith (character in German Doctor)

Lipovetsky, Gilles

M

MacCannell, Juliet Flower

McBurney, Corporal (character in The Beguiled)

McCarthy, Mary

  • and friendship with Hannah Arendt
  • role in reception of Eichmann in Jerusalem

Mengele, Josef

Miller, Jacques-Alain

Monteilhet, Hubert

  • Return from the Ashes

Mühe, Ulrich

Music

  • role in Lives of Others
  • role in Phoenix

N

Nelly (character in Phoenix)

  • name origin as Helen of Troy
  • original name as Esther

Nemes, László

Neue Galerie (in New York)

  • art acquisition by Ronald Lauder
  • cost of acquiring Woman in Gold

New Yorker, The

Nostalgia

  • in German Doctor, The

O

O’Connor, Anne Marie

  • Woman in Gold

Other, The

Otto, Rudolph

P

Pariah

Petzhold, Christian See also Films, Phoenix

Priebke, Erich propaganda of

Puenzo, Lucía

  • Wakolda

PTSD

R

Rape

  • during war
  • response to by Germans
  • as tool of war
  • Real, the (as in Lacan)

Refugees

Russia

  • capture of Berlin
  • Communism
  • soldiers
  • Stalin-ordered rape

Ruti, Mari

S

Salecl, Renata

Salten, Felix

  • Bambi
  • Josephine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself

Santner, Eric

Schlöndorff, Volker

  • and von Trotta, Margarethe

Schoenberg, Arnold

Schoenberg, Randy

Schor, Juliet

Seduction

Shakespeare, William

  • A Midsummers Night Dream
  • Poems

Siegel, Don Beguiled, The Sieland, Marie-Christa (character in Lives of Others)

Sinthome, The In Lacan, Jacques

Slavery

Stein, Gertrude Everybody’s Autobiography

Steiner, George purpose of humanities Sukowa, Barbara

Suicide in Hannah Arendt in Lives of Others, The Surveillance. See Germany, Surveillance

T

Testimony

Toole, John Kennedy

Trauma

Trotta, Margarethe von

  • Hannah Arendt

Trump, Donald

U

Uncanny (unheimlich)

  • in Freud, Sigmund.
  • in German Doctor, The
  • in Phoenix
  • in Women in Gold

United States

  • Civil Rights
  • Civil War
  • Confederates
  • New York City
  • Plantations during Civil War
  • South
  • Union Army
  • Virginia

V

Vienna

  • Anschluss

W

Wacjman, Gérard

War

  • Civil. See United States, Civil War
  • Cold
  • World War II

Weill, Kurt

  • “Speak Low”

Wiesler, Gerd (Stasi officer in Lives of Others)

  • Music as tool of change

Wilder, Billy

Work

Y

Yared, Gabriel

  • “Sonata for a Good Man”

Z

Zionism. See Israel, Zionism

Žižek, Slavoj