Susanne Vees-Gulani
Professor of German and comparative literature and author of Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token (University of Michigan Press, 2026), who researches memory, urban history, and representations of wartime destruction in Germany.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 43min
Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Susanne Vees-Gulani, Professor of German and comparative literature who studies memory and urban history. She traces Dresden’s long cultural branding and how WWII bombing narratives were shaped by propaganda and postwar politics. The conversation covers GDR memory practices, tensions between Holocaust remembrance and local narratives, and how competing memories feed present-day far-right and cultural pushback.
