ABSTRACT
This chapter employs intimate writing as a way to understand a sense of living connection to Heinz Heger. In the era of 'Memorial Mania', it is easy to see how obsession with memory contributes to building specific landscapes. Memory and writing are inexorably intertwined in shaping history, particularly violent histories. The transmissions of violent memories through intimate writing forwards tangible emotional embodiments within shared spaces of extreme violence, in other words a sense of living connection. Intimate writing situates the ambiguities of disembodied accounts of violence within a geographical framework that seeks to understand complex intimate social relations. Bearing witness through intimate writing can be an important basis for human subjectivity, whereby through our very own existence(s) we engage in the creation of knowledge. Intimate writing of experiences, embodiments and spaces of extreme violence can lead to better understandings of what has happened in the past and serves as a reminder that violence and resistance are experienced in our present.
