German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century

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Edited by Birgit Dahlke, Dennis Tate, Roger Woods

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2023
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9781571137258
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781571137258

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Combines an overview of academic approaches to 'life writing' with case studies from crucial periods of twentieth-century German history.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

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pp v-vi

Introduction: The Purposes and Problems of German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century
pp 1-24

1 - Life Writing and Writing Lives: Ego Documents in Historical Perspective
pp 25-38

2 - From Erlebnis to Erinnerung: Rereading Soldiers’ Letters and Photographs from the First World War
pp 39-53

3 - From Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick: Ernst Jünger, Photography, Autobiography, and Modernity
pp 54-70

4 - Persuasive Illusions of the Self: Albert Speer’s Life Writing and Public Discourse about Germany’s Nazi Past
pp 71-91

5 - The Shoah before the Shoah: The Literary Technique of Allusion in Elias Canetti’s Autobiography
pp 92-104

6 - “Ich schäme mich meiner Augen”: Photography and Autobiographical Identities in Grete Weil’s Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben
pp 105-120

7 - “Mich in Variationen erzählen”: Günter Grass and the Ethics of Autobiography
pp 121-136

8 - Voyeurism? Autobiographies by Children of the Perpetrators: Niklas Frank’s Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung (1987) and Meine deutsche Mutter (2005)
pp 137-150

9 - Dismembering the Past, Remembering the Self: An Interrogation of Disability Narratives by Luise Habel and Christa Reinig
pp 151-163

10 - “Schicht um Schicht” — The Evolution of Fred Wander’s Life Writing Project in the GDR Era and Beyond
pp 164-178

11 - Thought Patterns and Explanatory Strategies in the Life Writing of High-Ranking GDR Party Officials after the Wende
pp 179-195

12 - “Ein reines Phantasieprodukt” or “Hostile Biography”? Günter de Bruyn’s Vierzig Jahre and the Stasi files
pp 196-208

Notes on the Contributors
pp 209-212

Index
pp 213-216

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