
"Das wahre Leben im falschen": Erscheinungsformen ostdeutscher Identität in nach-wende-Texten
Author(s) -
Roswitha Skare
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
nordlit
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-2086
pISSN - 0809-1668
DOI - 10.7557/13.2147
Subject(s) - anecdote , german , joke , art , identity (music) , literature , humanities , history , philosophy , linguistics , aesthetics
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