A tale of two cities: Dachau and KZ Munich

Alan Marcus

A tale of two cities: Dachau and KZ Munich

Alan Marcus

Film & Visual Culture

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

A stream. A clubhouse. A witness. Theodore Pais never crossed a stream called the Wurm canal to play a round of golf, or enjoy the local Bavarian cuisine available to members and their guests in the dining room of Golfclub Dachau. A temporal demarcation and physical border separated him from what is now the club’s par four, fourth hole. The Wurm canal is a line, a thread that links a paradigmatic site of death and brutality with the boundary of a site of leisure. The quiet waters of the Wurm canal pass birch trees on one side and barbed wire on the other. Crossing it marks the threshold for 800,000 visitors and tourists who traverse the canal to enter the Nazis’ first state concentration camp.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The city and the moving image
Subtitle of host publication	urban projections
Editors	R Koeck, L Roberts
Place of Publication	Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	125-139
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9780230243385, 023024338X
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2010

In Time of Place
Alan Marcus (Coordinator)
Impact: Societal

4 Public Lecture/debate/seminar
3 Invited talk
2 Attending/organising a Conference

Let's Go to Dachau!: the representation of tourism at an iconic site
Alan Rudolph Marcus (Speaker)
18 Oct 2016
Activity: Disseminating Research › Invited talk
Director's Cut Masterclass and screening of 'In Place of Death' and 'In the Birch Grove'
Alan Rudolph Marcus (Speaker)
27 Jan 2013
Activity: Disseminating Research › Public Lecture/debate/seminar
'Memory and tourism at the trauma ground in Auschwitz-Birkenau' and screening of 'In the Birch Grove'.
Alan Rudolph Marcus (Keynote/plenary speaker)
12 Jul 2013 → 13 Jul 2013
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference

Screening and discussion of 'In Place of Death' at Caltech
Alan Rudolph Marcus
11/01/11
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research

Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Marcus, Alan (Recipient), 1 Jan 2010
Prize: Appointment
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College
Marcus, Alan (Recipient), 1 Jan 2010
Prize: Election to learned society

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A tale of two cities: Dachau and KZ Munich

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Impacts

In Time of Place

Activities

Let's Go to Dachau!: the representation of tourism at an iconic site

Director's Cut Masterclass and screening of 'In Place of Death' and 'In the Birch Grove'

'Memory and tourism at the trauma ground in Auschwitz-Birkenau' and screening of 'In the Birch Grove'.

Press/Media

Screening and discussion of 'In Place of Death' at Caltech

Prizes

Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College

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