Katharina Gerstenberger, Tanja Nusser

Introduction
Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic Spectacle
The French Burn Paris, 1871
Memory Politics: The Bombing of Hamburg and Dresden
Observing the Observation of Nuclear Disasters in Alexander Kluge
Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe
Narrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of Catastrophe
Beautiful Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular Catastrophes
Constellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslingers Phi Phi Island
Avalanche Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on Coping Strategies in Galtür, Tyrol
Defining Catastrophes
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index