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“Photography is a mode of bereavement. It speaks to us of mortification. Even though it remains
unthought, the essential relation between death and language flashes up before us in the photo-
graphic image” (Cadava 1992: 90). Photography is liminal and also performative. Photography is
liminal in that it captures moments between time; present instantly becomes the past. In this
photo key, where little girls in the photo are known by their maiden and married name, past, pre-
sent and future are confused. This wedding photo, in intergenerational translation, also exists
across other times. This photograph is performative in that it inspires the continual working up
of memories. Antze and Lambek write that "memory is reconstructed anew each time through
secular rituals...The position of the viewer may be left in question or explicitly positioned, but
there is always a space, a distance, between the spectator and her memory" (in Shields 2003:
39). This photo became a visiting Oma and Opa ritual. Take the photo off the wall, point and ask,
'was this the postman's son?' 'this is Mrs. Fittler who used to give me gum?'. Memory is per-
formed and translated through the photograph.

1. Franz Pimiskern
2. Georg Reidl
3. Heinrich Jahn
4. Gustav Kohler
5. Hans Ellenburger Sr.
6. Peter Klein
7. Hans Fleisch
8. Heinrich (Stickle) Reidl
9. Stefan Reidl
10. unknown
11. son of Peter Klein
12. Amy (Lein) Boehler
13. Christina Faust
14. Liz Lein
15. Eva Jekel
16. Theresa Jekel
17. ? Weil
18. Franz Ellenburger
19. ?? Washer
20. Theresa Klein
21. Jakob Klein
22. Katharina (Jekel) Felder (Aunt Katie)
23. Konrad Felder (Uncle Konrad)
24. Margaret (Felder) Torau (Oma)
25. Stefan Torau (Opa)
26. Georg Fittler
27. Frank Fittler
28. Magdalena Fittler
29. Margaret Pimiskern
30. Georg Fittler Jr.
31. John Fittler
32. Jakob Schneiker
33. unknown
34. Katharina (Felder) Pimiskern (aunt Kottle)
35. Elizabeth (Felder) Kehl
36. Eva (Berg) Zuschlag
37. Katharina (Torau) Reidl (i.e. Axel’s Oma)
38. Katharina (Bauer) Torau (i.e. Great Oma)
39. married to a Weil
40. Regina Scherrer
41. Elizabeth (Eirich) Felder (i.e. Great Oma)
42. Heinrich Felder (i.e. Great Opa)
43. Mrs. Jekel (Aunt Kottie’s mother)
44. Heinrich Jekel (aunt Kottie’s father)
45. Adam Gossler
46. Mr. (Konrad?) Dermer
47. Mrs. Dermer
48. Thresa Pimiskern (Gus’ sister)
49. Annie Washer
50. Anna Offner
51. ? Miller
52. unknown
53. unknown
54. Katharina Lein
55. Elizabeth Faust
56. Amy (Lein) Jahn – married to #3
57. Mrs. Eva Jekel
58. Katharina Jekel
59. Mrs. Lein
60. Katharina Reidl (Herwig’s grandmother)
61. Jakob Lein
62. Mr. Szabo
63. Elizabeth (?) Lein
64. Mr. Johann Rausch
65. Hans Jekel
66. Michael Faust (father of #71)
67. Laurence (Heinrich) Wascher
68. Eva (Arndt) Lickel
69. Peter Lickel
70. Mary (Pimiskern) Zuschlag
71. Jakob Faust
72. Katie (Schauffer) Faust
73. Heinrich Scherer
74. Mrs. Boehler
75. Elizabeth Scherer (bridesmaid)
76. Katharina Scherer
77. Katharina (Berg) Zushlag (married # 83)
78. Heinrich Zuschlag
79. Katharina (Felder) Pimiskern
80. Mrs. Amy (Geiche) Reidl (married #2)
81. Eva (Kehl) Arndt
82. Hans Weil
83. Konrad Zuschlag
84. Theresa Wascher
85. Elizabeth Lickel
86. Christina (Stickel) Reidl
87. Mr. Jekel (from Hrastovatz- cousin of Aunt Kottie)
88. Christina Scherer
89. Katharina Scherer
90. John Ellenburger
91. Elizabeth (Faust) Rech
92. Elizabeth (Wascher) Reidl (Eva Walter’s sister)
93. Peter Wolf
94. ? Schaffer- from Hravstovs
95. unknown
96. Mrs. Adele (Kettleman) Ellenburger
97. Elizabeth Rausch (married to 64)
98. unknown
99. Elizabeth (Lein) Klein
100. Laurence Wascher
101. Mr. Hans? Schaeffer (Hrastovatz)
102. Andres Dechert
103. Gustav Pimiskern (i.e. Albina’s husband)
104. Mrs. (Schlitt) Lickel (married #105)
105. Hans Johann Lickel
106. unknown
107. Adele (Pimiskern) Walter
108. Georg Torau (aka Opa’s brother)
109. Konrad Lickel
110. Katharina (Weil) Gross
111. Hans Johann Wascher
112. Adam Weil
113. Maria Scherer
114. Heinrich Jekel (Aunt Katie’s brother)
115. Georg Scherer
116. Elizabeth Ehl
117. Maria Pimiskern
118. John Zuschlag
119. Katharina (Pimiskern) Pickler
120. Konrad Ehl
121. unknown

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