Disability in German-Speaking Europe

This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.

AcknowledgmentsDisability Studies in German-Speaking Europe, an IntroductionLinda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine SorrelsPart 1: Negotiating Interpersonal Relationships: Historical Perspectives1: Inclusion, Emotion, and DisabilityMarkus Dederich and Katherine Sorrels2: "Moral Madness": Representations of Prodigality, Disability, and Competence in German Legal HistoryAshley L. Elrod3: Deafness and "Disfigurement" as Relational Disorders: Aron Ronald Bodenheimer's Psychotherapy at the Zurich School for the Deaf during the 1960sMarion SchmidtPart 2: Reckoning with the Past: Reconstruction of Memory4: The Romance of the Institution: Educational Optimism and the Confinement of the "Feeble-Minded" in Modern GermanyWarren Rosenblum5: From the Disability Murders Archive: Ernst Klee's Confrontation of the Public with Nazism's First GenocideDagmar Herzog6: Disability in Nazi Germany: Memory of "Euthanasia" Crimes and Commemoration of Their VictimsLutz KaelberPart 3: Intersections and Diversity: The Lens of Culture7: A Crip Chronotope: Time, Disability, and Heimat in Else Lasker-Schüler's Die WupperCaroline Weist8: Disability in the Narrative and Dramatic Work of Thomas BernhardLinda Leskau9: Freaks, Capriccios, Monstrosities: Ulrike Ottinger's Freak Orlando: Kleines Welttheater in fünf EpisodenTanja Nusser10: Disability as Opportunity in Alissa Walser's Novel about the Blind Maria Theresia ParadisWaltraud MaierhoferNotes on the ContributorsIndex