The Cult of the Body

Authors

  • Silke Eilers Bonn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/414

Keywords:

Körper, Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus, Bildende Kunst Ästhetik Repräsentation, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

In her work, based on her dissertation for the department of political science presented in 2002 to the Humboldt University Berlin, Paula Diehl addresses the political imaginary of National Socialism. She investigates the creation and use of images of the self and the other in political discourse where the ideal bodies of the SS and the mythos of the “Aryan” play a central role. Diehl interprets them as a screen onto which the visualization of the National Socialist utopia of the “New Human” was projected. Using an interdisciplinary approach with methods from political and cultural studies, the author analyses the instrumentalization of the SS body images for the communication of racist ideals and the performance of power.

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Published

2006-03-08

Issue

No. 18 (2006): Biografik – Lebensgeschichten

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2006 Silke Eilers

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