The Wall Inside the Head' Twenty Years On: Narrating East German Identity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Andrews
Keyword(s):  
German Identity ◽  
East German

scholarly journals "Das wahre Leben im falschen": Erscheinungsformen ostdeutscher Identität in nach-wende-Texten

Nordlit ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Roswitha Skare
Keyword(s):  
Short Review ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
German Identity ◽  
East German

Beginning with a short review about the question of East-German identity, texts by Daniela Dahn, Thomas Rosenlöcher and Hans-J. Misselwitz are analysed to show how history is recounted through stories. Despite the authors’ different biographical backgrounds and their varying literary styles, the three chosen texts have two things in common: the central positioning of an ‘East-We’ and the use of small literary forms – be it in the form of anecdote, joke, almanac story or by example – guarantees not only the preservation of individual and collective experiences, but their reproduction as well. 

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