Das Narrativ der verlorenen Männlichkeit als erinnerungspolitische Intervention. Zum Antifeminismus neurechter Geschichtspolitiken

Abstract

The Narrative of Lost Masculinity as an Intervention in the Politics of Memory. On the Anti-Feminism of the New Right’s Politics of History
The New Right is actively intervening in discourses on the politics of memory. This article demonstrates that, alongside the deliberate relativization of the Holocaust, there is also a distinctly anti-gender mode of remembering at play, which works through the invocation of a narrative of lost masculinity. Using the autobiographical storytelling of Jürgen Elsässer and Ellen Kositza as examples, the article illustrates how the New Right’s remembering both broadly devalues feminism and partially appropriates it. The article argues that the anti-feminist remembering of the New Right is part of a masculinist strategy of domination, which is employed by both its male and female protagonists. To this end, the article develops a narrative-theoretical approach to memory and argues that it is precisely recourse to personal experience that gives the New Right’s memories a veneer of authenticity, marking them as acts of resovereignization.
Keywords: Radical New Right, Masculinities, Anti-Gender Politics, Memory

Leseprobe

Bibliographie: Eggers, Nina Elena: Das Narrativ der verlorenen Männlichkeit als erinnerungspolitische Intervention. Zum Antifeminismus neurechter Geschichtspolitiken, Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 1-2025, S. 37-50.