Nostalgia for the ‘Nowhere City’: Kaliningrad, Expellee Memory, and Johannes Bobrowski's Königsberg
This article focuses on Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, as an urban memory paradigm in the German context. The first part looks at contrasting views of Kaliningrad, based on visits to the city, as a lieu de mémoire in the late 1950s and the early 1990s. The second discu...
Veröffentlicht in: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. - 111(2016), 4, Seite 1049-1067 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
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2016
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |
Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Arts Social sciences History Political science |
Zusammenfassung: | This article focuses on Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, as an urban memory paradigm in the German context. The first part looks at contrasting views of Kaliningrad, based on visits to the city, as a lieu de mémoire in the late 1950s and the early 1990s. The second discusses the memory of expellees in 1950s West Germany as a form of nostalgic reconstruction. The third analyses Johannes Bobrowski's literary work on Königsberg of the 1960s in the GDR, showing how Bobrowski resists convenient forms of political forgetting and simplistic interpretations of cultural history, despite the nostalgic and commemorative qualities of his writing. |
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ISSN: | 22224297 |
DOI: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1049 |