Our project partner, Dr. Andrea Löw, wrote an article examining graphic novel representations of the Holocaust and the creation process of ‘But I Live’. The article was first published in the Politik & Kultur: Newspaper of the German Cultural Council on April 28, 2023, and later included in Issue 5, Comics: Graphic Literature in Focus on May 21, 2023.
“In their sensitive and at the same time impressive “graphic narratives” it becomes very clear how the past and the present are constantly intertwined, how memory blurs but is always present. And even diverging memories, as in the case of the brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp, or missing memories – Emmie Arbel says several times: “I don’t remember” – can be sensitively addressed in this medium without exposing the survivors.”
Dr. Andrea Löw is deputy director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich and teaches at the University of Mannheim. Learn more about Dr. Löw on Our Team page.
Politik & Kultur is the newspaper of the German Cultural Council and provides information on current cultural policy issues. It devotes each issue to examine a specific topic in detail and is for an audience of people interested in cultural policy, decision-makers from cultural institutions and authorities, elected representatives in parliaments and many others.
Link to full article:
https://politikkultur.de/themen/aber-ich-lebe/