Doris Goedl
15:30 Presentation of Work in Progress 3 September 1999
Giving Silence a Voice
After the "Third Reich" silence was kept in most Austrian families about "participation". This taboo has become an important link between generations. A research project – carried out within the context of the "Wehrmachts-ausstellung" – demonstrates the difficulty of giving this family silence a voice.
Dr. Doris Goedl is a practising Psychoanalyst and Sociologist in Salzburg. Her chosen fields of research are: Women as perpetrators during National Socialism and identification with the first generation in subsequent generations. As well as this work and her practice, she also works individually with war traumatized women from the former Yugoslavia, looking at escape, exile and the after-affects of political upheaval.