Austria's Difficult Past

A comprehensive analysis of Austro-German historical television films released between 1961 and 1980, Austria’s Difficult Past examines television’s role in reckoning with the legacy of the Nazi regime and in mediating the burden of complicity within Austria’s and Germany’s shared histories.

Jakub Gortat is Assistant Professor in the Institute of German Philology at the University of Lodz. His academic interests fall into the area of the German and Austrian politics of memory, the intersections of film, history and politics in Germany and Austria, as well as German-Polish cultural relations after 1945. He has recently published research in New German Critique ; German Life and Letters ; Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance ; Journal of Austrian Studies , and Holocaust Studies - A Journal of Culture and History .