2nd revised edition “Sag Du es Deinem Kinde – Nationalsozialismus in der eigenen Familie” (Tell Your Child – National Socialism in the Family) finally available!!
The revised new edition of the book has been published!
“Sag Du es Deinem Kinde – Nationalsozialismus in der eigenen Familie” was first published in October 2015, and within a year, it was completely sold out and out of print for about three and a half years. The first edition sparked many reactions and was extensively discussed in the media. Please refer to the links below for further information. The book was awarded as one of the 15 most beautiful books of Austria in 2015 (thanks to the excellent design by Manuel Radde). However, the jury made it clear that this award could be misleading in the title, and therefore, the justification stated:
“National Socialists were not the ‘Others’ in a typical Austrian family, but usually part of it. Friedemann Derschmidt explores, using his own family as an example, the early signs of worldviews at the beginning of the 20th century that later contributed to the enthusiasm for the Nazi regime, and which aspects of that can still be traced today. The book succeeds in breaking formal clichés from both past and present through an extremely consistent, clear, and informative design, offering a fresh and unfamiliar perspective on a topic that one might assume to be well known. The atmosphere of the time is palpable through the power of the page layout. The book does not aim to be ‘beautiful,’ but instead, it creates a space between the past and contemporary viewpoints that allows for an intense engagement with the topic.”
sample reading: 1 chapter: Reichel komplex
Since then, I have often been asked how one can still obtain a copy of the book, and I have always referred them to the publisher.
In 2020, I reached an agreement with the publisher for a revised reprint, and I have since revised and expanded the book. In this new and updated edition, I have incorporated reactions from readers of the first edition as well as additional texts from my current work on the topics of the Gunskirchen concentration camp and medical research in a military context on the eve of World War I, in which my great-grandfather, Dr. Heinrich Reichel, was involved. Additionally, there is a new text by Tal Gur, an Israeli musician and psychotherapist living in New York. In his project MindCrossing, he explores the trans-generational internal system of his maternal family, where both grandparents were survivors of concentration camps, in collaboration with the Israeli dancer Jasmin Avissar.
The book is now complete, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Manuel Radde, who undertook this revision for me. The same goes for Verena Hauser, who edited the new texts.
Unfortunately, the book is currently only available in German. I am in search of a suitable publisher in the English-speaking world and would be grateful for any suggestions or, even better, a contact.
Buch:
Sag Du es Deinem Kinde – Nationalsozialismus in der eigenen Familie
Friedemann Derschmidt
Löcker Verlag
17 x 23,5 cm | Broschur
344 Seiten | € 29,80
ISBN 978-3-99098-057-6
Auszüge aus den bisherigen Presseberichten (Links zum Nachhören, schauen und lesen):
Radio Ö1 Menschenbilder: Friedemann Derschmidt 12.11.2023; Sabine Nikolay
ORF TV Dokumentarfilm: Meine Grosseltern, die Nazi; A 2022; Uli Jürgens
Gazeta Wyborzca; 21 lutego 2022; Katarzyna Brejwo
Bayrische Zeitschrift für Politik und Geschichte 2/2019 Monika Franz
LaCroix (F) Friedemann Derschmidt, les silences nazis en héritage; 25/07/2018; Jean-Baptiste François
Radio Ö1; Gedanken 22.7.2018; Bernhard Eppensteiner
RadioÖ1 Dimensionen: 26.9.2017 Postmemory; Uli Jürgens
Profil (2 Seiten); 2.12.2016 Geliebter Todfeind; Wolfgang Paterno
Radio Ö1 Kulturjournal, Filminstallation “4xSally” 2.12.2016 im Jüdischen Museum; Anna Soucek
Radio FM4; 10.11.2015 Beitrag zu SAG DU ES DEINEM KINDE; Alexandra Augustin
Der Standard; 10.10.2016 Das aktuelle Buch: ,,Ideologische Vererbungslehre”; Thomas Neuhold
Die Presse; 3.9.2016 Ausstieg aus dem System Familie; Katharina Riese
Profil; 8.2.2016 Kein Entkommen; Wolfgang Paterno
ORF2 TV 08.05.2016 „Künstler gegen rechts“; Dalibor Hysek
ORF2 TV 29.03.2015 ,.Sag Du es Deinem Kinde!”; Christian Rathner
TAZ 23.07.2014 Wand voller Fliegen; Susanne Knaul
Jerusalem Post Coverstory 11.07.2014 A TALE OF TWO FAMILIES; Barry Davis
Film:
Das Phantom der Erinnerung
Ein Film von Friedemann Derschmidt mit Ilana Shmueli
A 2013 Friedemann Derschmidt; kurt mayer film
Diagonale Preiträger: Bester Kurzdokumentarfilm 2013
“Why remember? What do we aim to achieve with it? We claim that we want to learn from it. But this is not happening… and we are fully aware of that. It hasn’t happened for centuries…”
These words, spoken by the poet and Holocaust survivor Ilana Shmueli, the last lover of Paul Celan, sound particularly unsettling. Especially at a time when the last “witnesses” of the Holocaust and World War II are passing away forever, she observes: “Having elderly women recount how difficult it was for them in the concentration camps or ghettos… how often do we want to hear this? It all sounds so repetitive, and I can no longer endure it.”
Together with Friedemann Derschmidt, she sets out to find new ways to approach remembrance and reformulate the question of memory, with the help of this film.
—>>> Click here to watch the film <<<—
Friedemann Derschmidt explores the question of how National Socialist ideology is consciously or unconsciously passed down through generations within families, and to what extent the “spirit of the past” continues to have an impact. In an ironic response to the “racial hygiene inheritance theories” of his great-grandfather, the renowned eugenicist Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinrich Reichel (Graz, Vienna), Derschmidt poses the question of an “Ideological Theory of Inheritance.” The author, involving all living relatives affected, seeks to find ways and develop methods for dealing with the problematic political entanglements of his own family before, during, and after the National Socialist era.
The book includes contributions from Robert and Brigitte Brown, Bernhard, Eckhart, and Wiltrud Derschmidt, Wolfgang Freidl, Mathilde Furtenbach, Ambros Gruber, Anton and Irmgard Jiresch, Tal Gur, Herbert W. Rabl, Margit Reiter, Klaus Schönberger, Agnes Suda, Luise Wascher, Simon Wascher, and Dietmar Weixler.
With responses to the first edition and approximately 15% new texts/chapters.
Auszüge aus den bisherigen Presseberichten (Links zum Nachhören, schauen und lesen):
Radio Ö1 Menschenbilder: Friedemann Derschmidt 12.11.2023; Sabine Nikolay
ORF TV Dokumentarfilm: Meine Grosseltern, die Nazi; A 2022; Uli Jürgens
Gazeta Wyborzca; 21 lutego 2022; Katarzyna Brejwo
Bayrische Zeitschrift für Politik und Geschichte 2/2019 Monika Franz
LaCroix (F) Friedemann Derschmidt, les silences nazis en héritage; 25/07/2018; Jean-Baptiste François
Radio Ö1; Gedanken 22.7.2018; Bernhard Eppensteiner
RadioÖ1 Dimensionen: 26.9.2017 Postmemory; Uli Jürgens
Profil (2 Seiten); 2.12.2016 Geliebter Todfeind; Wolfgang Paterno
Radio Ö1 Kulturjournal, Filminstallation “4xSally” 2.12.2016 im Jüdischen Museum; Anna Soucek
Radio FM4; 10.11.2015 Beitrag zu SAG DU ES DEINEM KINDE; Alexandra Augustin
Der Standard; 10.10.2016 Das aktuelle Buch: ,,Ideologische Vererbungslehre”; Thomas Neuhold
Die Presse; 3.9.2016 Ausstieg aus dem System Familie; Katharina Riese
Profil; 8.2.2016 Kein Entkommen; Wolfgang Paterno
ORF2 TV 08.05.2016 „Künstler gegen rechts“; Dalibor Hysek
ORF2 TV 29.03.2015 ,.Sag Du es Deinem Kinde!”; Christian Rathner
TAZ 23.07.2014 Wand voller Fliegen; Susanne Knaul
Jerusalem Post Coverstory 11.07.2014 A TALE OF TWO FAMILIES; Barry Davis
Film:
Das Phantom der Erinnerung
Ein Film von Friedemann Derschmidt mit Ilana Shmueli
A 2013 Friedemann Derschmidt; kurt mayer film
Diagonale Preiträger: Bester Kurzdokumentarfilm 2013
“Why remember? What do we aim to achieve with it? We claim that we want to learn from it. But this is not happening… and we are fully aware of that. It hasn’t happened for centuries…”
These words, spoken by the poet and Holocaust survivor Ilana Shmueli, the last lover of Paul Celan, sound particularly unsettling. Especially at a time when the last “witnesses” of the Holocaust and World War II are passing away forever, she observes: “Having elderly women recount how difficult it was for them in the concentration camps or ghettos… how often do we want to hear this? It all sounds so repetitive, and I can no longer endure it.”
Together with Friedemann Derschmidt, she sets out to find new ways to approach remembrance and reformulate the question of memory, with the help of this film.
—>>> Click here to watch the film <<<—
