The Game is the Memory

Prosthetic Witnessing in digitalen Spielen als Erinnerungsmedien um den Holocaust

By (author) Tabea Widmann

Book cover: The Game is the Memory

Extent: 281 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(September 2023)

ISBN: 9783847116011

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $82.00

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Als Medien in den Erinnerungskulturen um den Holocaust eroffnen digitale Spiele eine Position medialisiert-distanzierter Zeugenschaft, die sich als Prosthetic Witnessing begreifen lasst.


Tabea Widmann dedicates this work to digital games as media of remembrance around the Holocaust and examines them as particularly potentially powerful media of digitalised memory cultures. Within the book, the concept of “Prosthetic Witnessing” is developed; an approach that understands playful actions as mediated positions of a medialised-distanced, yet emotionally involving, form of witnessing. Based on four selected case studies, “Prosthetic Witnessing” already finds its first applications in the work with a focus on figures of testimony, the staging of places of remembrance as well as the handling of depicted media of memory.

  • By (author) Tabea Widmann