Dislocation and reorientation : : exile, division, and the end of communism in German culture and politics : in honour of Ian Wallace / / edited by Axel Goodbody, Pól Ó Dochartaigh, Dennis Tate.

• Superior document: German monitor ; no. 71
• TeilnehmendeR: Goodbody, Axel, 1950-; Ó Dochartaigh, Pól.; Tate, Dennis.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi.; c2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: German Monitor 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Dislocation and the need for radical reorientation are central experiences in 20th-century German history. Much of German culture has also consisted of reflections on and responses to the historical caesurae of 1933, 1945 and 1989-90, and the massive political, social and economic changes that accompanied them. In the first instance, dislocation and reorientation are to be understood in the physical sense, id est the loss of their homes in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by Jewish and Communist émigrés after 1933, by Germans in Eastern Europe after 1945, and by disaffected individuals leaving the GDR for the West between 1949 and 1989. But they are also ideological, social and cultural experiences. This volume seeks to explore the parallels and differences between the impact on these groups of their sense of loss and their struggle to establish new identities after major upheavals. What their diverse experiences have in common is the sense of social and intellectual dislocation, even amongst those whose physical location did not change for long periods of time. Drawing on the ideas of various social and cultural theorists, and adopting a variety of approaches, our contributors examine how not only dislocation but also reorientation has been articulated, both in political discourse and across the cultural spectrum from fiction to life writing, from poetry to film.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation -- Aus: Machwerk oder Das Schichtbuch des Flick von Lauchhammer / Volker Braun -- A polso teso. Portrait der Poesie Volker Brauns / Anna Chiarloni -- Political dislocation and poetic reorientation in Volker Braun’s Bodenloser Satz / Axel Goodbody -- ‘Totentänze’: Volker Braun’s late poems – Postscripts on the end of utopia / Karen Leeder -- Überlegungen zu Volker Brauns Rede zur Verleihung des Schiller-Gedächtnispreises 1992: ‘Ist das unser Himmel? Ist das unsre Hölle?’ / Gerd Labroisse -- Die deutschsprachige Exilpresse und das Attentat des 20. Juli 1944 / Daniel Azuélos -- ‘The fog of peace and war’1: German exiles in postcolonial Anglophone writing / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Odradek – ein Bewohner des Dritten Raums. Mit Franz Kafka unterwegs zu transkulturellen Lektüren / Wolfgang Emmerich -- Kipling and others: Literary allusions in Anna Seghers’s ‘Die schönsten Sagen vom Räuber Woynok’1 / Helen Fehervary -- Stefan Heym’s exile poetry as the foundation for his later fiction / Peter Hutchinson -- Kurt Schwitters in Ambleside1 / Hamish Ritchie -- Ein Fallbeispiel zur Rückkehrproblematik aus dem Exil – Ernst Lewy (1881-1966) / Gisela Holfter -- Résistance, Restauration und deutsch-jüdische West-Remigranten: Alfred Kantorowiczs Schauspiel Die Verbündeten in der DDR / Deborah Vietor-Engländer -- German expellees in the SBZ/GDR and the Oder-Neisse ‘peace border’1 / Ian Connor -- Dislocation and reorientation in the Sorbian community (1945-2008) / Peter Barker -- Von der Fröhlichkeit im Schrecken: Fred Wander’s celebration of dislocation / Dennis Tate -- A people’s game: Football in the German Democratic Republic / Mike Dennis -- Heimatlos zu Hause: Bloch, Žižek and the dislocated Heimat / Peter Thompson -- Ausreisen und Ausflüge – Geschichten aus dem letzten Jahr der DDR / Dieter Segert -- Retold lives: East German autobiography after East Germany / Roger Woods -- Verlust der Mitte: Wolf Biermanns Abnabelung von seinem Topos Berlin / Gerrit-Jan Berendse -- Ingo Schulze’s Handy. Thirteen Tales in the Old Style: Another look at East(ern) Germanness and identity formation / Christine Cosentino -- ‘Home soured home?’ Dislocation as a motif in the works of Martin Walser / Stuart Parkes -- Without a name: Kurt Drawert and the dislocated self / Colin B. Grant -- Westernisation, Europeanisation, and civil society: Has Thomas Mann’s vision of a European Germany come true? / Gert-Joachim Glaeßner -- Ian Wallace: List of Publications / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation -- Notes on Contributors / Editors Dislocation and Reorientation.