Beyond MAUS

Beyond Art Spiegelman's MAUS, there is a plethora of Holocaust comics that is waiting to be discovered.

Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the Holocaust happened, are often not recognised by a wider public. A plethora of works still waits to be discovered, like early caricatures and comics referring to the extermination of the Jews, graphic series by survivors or horror stories from 1950s comic books. The volume provides overviews about the depictions of Jews as animals, the representation of prisoner societies in comics as well as in depth studies about distorted traces of the Holocaust in Hergé's Tintin and in Spirou, the Holocaust in Mangas, and Holocaust comics in Poland and Israel, recent graphic novels and the use of these comics in schools. With contributions from different disciplines, the volume also grants new perspectives on comic scholarship.

Auteur
Ole Frahm studied German Literature, History and Psychology in Berlin and Hamburg. Co-founder of the Research Centre for Graphic Literature (ArGL) at the University of Hamburg. Member of the Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus and the German Society for Comics Studies (Comfor). He published about radio and the history, theory, and aesthetics of comics. Genealogie des Holocaust. Art Spiegelmans MAUS - A Survivor's Tale (Paderborn 2006); Die Sprache des Comics (Hamburg 2010). Hans-Joachim Hahn is research associate at the Zentrum für Jüdische Studien (Centre for Jewish Studies) at the University of Basel and Privatdozent (Associate Professor) at the Institute for German and General Literature at the RWTH Aachen. Member of the German Association of Germanists (Deutscher Germanistenverband), Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus as well as of workgroups on the history of emancipation and on the New Right. Recent Publications: Narrative des Neuen Menschen - Vom Versprechen einer besseren Welt (Berlin 2018); Darstellen, Vermitteln, Aneignen. Gegenwärtige Reflexionen des Holocaust (ed. together with Bettina Bannasch, Vienna 2018). Markus Streb is currently writing a doctoral thesis on gender in comics about the Shoah. His areas of interest also include Jewish life in rural Hessen, media reflections of anti-Semitism, or the role of women in the far-right in Germany. He is member of the Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus, the Comics Studies Working Group in the German Society of Media Studies (GfM), and the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor). Ole Frahm studied German Literature, History and Psychology in Berlin and Hamburg. Co-founder of the Research Centre for Graphic Literature (ArGL) at the University of Hamburg. Member of the Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus and the German Society for Comics Studies (Comfor). He published about radio and the history, theory, and aesthetics of comics. Genealogie des Holocaust. Art Spiegelmans MAUS - A Survivor's Tale (Paderborn 2006); Die Sprache des Comics (Hamburg 2010). Hans-Joachim Hahn is research associate at the Zentrum für Jüdische Studien (Centre for Jewish Studies) at the University of Basel and Privatdozent (Associate Professor) at the Institute for German and General Literature at the RWTH Aachen. Member of the German Association of Germanists (Deutscher Germanistenverband), Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus as well as of workgroups on the history of emancipation and on the New Right. Recent Publications: Narrative des Neuen Menschen - Vom Versprechen einer besseren Welt (Berlin 2018); Darstellen, Vermitteln, Aneignen. Gegenwärtige Reflexionen des Holocaust (ed. together with Bettina Bannasch, Vienna 2018). Markus Streb is currently writing a doctoral thesis on gender in comics about the Shoah. His areas of interest also include Jewish life in rural Hessen, media reflections of anti-Semitism, or the role of women in the far-right in Germany. He is member of the Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus, the Comics Studies Working Group in the German Society of Media Studies (GfM), and the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor).