Im Kampf um Geschichte(n)

Erinnerungsorte des Abessinienkriegs in SĂĽdtirol

By (author) Sebastian De Pretto

Book cover: Im Kampf um Geschichte(n)

Extent: 383 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(March 2020)

ISBN: 9783847111085

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $99.00

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Der Band fragt danach, weshalb einzelne Gruppen oder Individuen die Verflechtungsgeschichte Sudtirols mit dem Abessinienkrieg nach 1945 jeweils in offentlich ausgetragene Geschichtsdebatten miteinbrachten und untersucht generell den erinnerungskulturellen Umgang mit der jungeren Vergangenheit im Gedachtnisraum Sudtirol. Die Studie nimmt hierfur das Alpinidenkmal in Bruneck, die Strassennamen in Bozen, die Sudtiroler Heimatbucher sowie Kollektiverzahlungen der Nachkriegszeit in den Blick und analysiert diese hinsichtlich ihrer Funktion als umstrittene Erinnerungsorte.


The study seeks to uncover the memorialisation of the Abyssinian-War in South Tyrol after 1945. Thus, it focuses on public places of remembrance, where different narrations about the Abyssinian-War circulate between various groups of memory activists. As the collective memory in South Tyrol is divided by the conflict between German speaking and Italian speaking, right-wing political groups, the divergent narrations about the Abyssinian-War also appear in a highly ideologized framework. Such different views on Mussolini’s imperial war show how historiography in South Tyrol is being (mis-)used as a battleground of populist memory activists who articulate their socio-political agendas through their own version of the past. Against this background, different strategies to establish a critical historical consciousness are also discussed.

  • By (author) Sebastian De Pretto