Doctoral project
Luce d'Eramo (1925-2001) was an Italian writer, journalist and intellectual. in 1944, at the age of 18, she volunteered as a foreign labourer in Germany and spent a year in various Nazi labour and concentration camps (IG Farben Frankfurt-Höchst labour camp, Dachau concentration camp). After an accident in Mainz in February 1945, which injured her spine, she returned to Italy as a physically disabled woman and was confined to a wheelchair from then on. From the 1950s onwards, she wrote numerous narrative, journalistic and essayistic texts about these experiences, including the autobiographical romance Deviazione (1979). Throughout her life, she devoted herself to controversial topics and the phenomena of her time. This makes her a still unknown but important intellectual voice for the second half of the 20th century.
Against the background of the Italian memory discourse on the Second World War, the doctoral project examines an important part of Luce d'Eramo's narrative and media interventions as intellectual memory work with regard to her feminist narrative style, gender-specificremembrance and the interaction with diversity discourses (gender and disability).
Photographer: Patrick Artmann