The work of the memory is further complicated by the fact that Kiefer has to "create" their memory - in order to recreate the events in which he did not attend, but that it formed: it assigns the objects, texts, images - the only ones available to him memories - and include them in some kind of staging, showing the elements gradually amounting his personal memories of Nazism and his own Germanic "genealogy". Created this personal memory, Kiefer can "remember", despite the fact that he does not and can not be "memories". Creativity Kiefer rejects Adorno's famous formula: "to write poetry after Auschwitz - barbarism. Indeed Kiefer in his work shows the barbarity: he analyzes the history of Germany, constantly referring to the tradition, part of which he is himself.
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