ABSTRACT
The image below (Figure 10.1) shows the work Sulamith (1983) by the German artist Anselm Kiefer. The painting is inspired by Paul Celan’s poem Todesfuge and depicts the dark interior of a German Third Reich memorial site for fallen soldiers. 1 It invites the viewer to contemplate possible relations between past and present and the issue of remembering and representing past pain and suffering. A short reading of this painting will serve as frame for the argument presented in this chapter.
