Drafts by Maria Pohn-Lauggas
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2020
Über Menschen, die vom NS-Regime als „Berufsverbrecher“ etikettiert und in Konzentrationslager de... more Über Menschen, die vom NS-Regime als „Berufsverbrecher“ etikettiert und in Konzentrationslager deportiert worden waren, wurde jahrzehntelang geschwiegen, wenn sie nicht mit den sogenannten Kapos der Konzentrationslager identifiziert und in die Nähe der SS-Verbrechen gerückt wurden. Ihr Schicksal ist in zahlreichen Familien latent Thema. Anhand von sechs narrativ-biographischen Interviews untersuchen wir die Frage, wie die erlebte und erzählte Geschichte von im KZ Mauthausen als „Berufsverbrechern“ Etikettierten in Familien in Österreich weitergegeben wird und welche intergenerationalen Erinnerungsstrukturen sich ausgestalten. In einer Fallrekonstruktion, die historische Aspekte mit einer Sequenzanalyse zweier Interviews mit einer Angehörigen der dritten Generation verknüpft, analysieren wir die episodenhafte Erzählweise als Ausdruck dessen, dass in den Interviews in sozialer Interaktion Narrative und Kohärenz verhandelt werden. Zentrales latentes Thema ist die „Opferwürdigkeit“. Der Beitrag verortet sich in einer historisch verfahrenden prozessorientierten Soziologie, die das Nachleben der Verfolgungsgeschichte von „Berufsverbrechern“ in den Narrationen und Biographien von Nachkommen unter den Bedingungen eines gesellschaftlichen Täterverdachts rekonstruiert.
For decades, people who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” (“professional criminals”) and sent to concentration camps by the Nazi regime, have been either shrouded in silence or identified with the so-called Kapos (prisoner functionaries) in the concentration camps and associated with SS crimes. Their fate is a latent theme in many families. Based on six narrative-biographical interviews, we look at how the experienced and narrated history of prisoners in Mauthausen who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” has been handed down in families in Austria, and draw conclusions concerning the formation of intergenerational memory structures. In a case reconstruction linking a historical perspective with a sequential analysis of two interviews with a female member of the third generation, we analyse the interviewee’s episodic style as a reflection of the way in which narratives and coherence are negotiated in social interaction in the interviews. The central latent theme is “victim worthiness”. This paper fits into a branch of sociology interested in reconstructing historical processes. It examines the process through which the persecution of “Berufsverbrecher” lives on in the narrations and biographies of descendants, in a context in which there is a tendency in society to see
Nazi victims as perpetrators.
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Drafts by Maria Pohn-Lauggas
For decades, people who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” (“professional criminals”) and sent to concentration camps by the Nazi regime, have been either shrouded in silence or identified with the so-called Kapos (prisoner functionaries) in the concentration camps and associated with SS crimes. Their fate is a latent theme in many families. Based on six narrative-biographical interviews, we look at how the experienced and narrated history of prisoners in Mauthausen who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” has been handed down in families in Austria, and draw conclusions concerning the formation of intergenerational memory structures. In a case reconstruction linking a historical perspective with a sequential analysis of two interviews with a female member of the third generation, we analyse the interviewee’s episodic style as a reflection of the way in which narratives and coherence are negotiated in social interaction in the interviews. The central latent theme is “victim worthiness”. This paper fits into a branch of sociology interested in reconstructing historical processes. It examines the process through which the persecution of “Berufsverbrecher” lives on in the narrations and biographies of descendants, in a context in which there is a tendency in society to see
Nazi victims as perpetrators.
For decades, people who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” (“professional criminals”) and sent to concentration camps by the Nazi regime, have been either shrouded in silence or identified with the so-called Kapos (prisoner functionaries) in the concentration camps and associated with SS crimes. Their fate is a latent theme in many families. Based on six narrative-biographical interviews, we look at how the experienced and narrated history of prisoners in Mauthausen who were labelled as “Berufsverbrecher” has been handed down in families in Austria, and draw conclusions concerning the formation of intergenerational memory structures. In a case reconstruction linking a historical perspective with a sequential analysis of two interviews with a female member of the third generation, we analyse the interviewee’s episodic style as a reflection of the way in which narratives and coherence are negotiated in social interaction in the interviews. The central latent theme is “victim worthiness”. This paper fits into a branch of sociology interested in reconstructing historical processes. It examines the process through which the persecution of “Berufsverbrecher” lives on in the narrations and biographies of descendants, in a context in which there is a tendency in society to see
Nazi victims as perpetrators.