THE NEW PRUSSIAN RENAISSANCE: LITERARY COMMEMORATIONS OF QUEEN LUISE

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN
Rhoslyn Beckwith
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In the wake of World War Two, Germany abandoned its onetime national idols, including Queen Luise of Prussia (1776–1810). Yet despite assertions that her legend has become obsolete (Förster, 2011), contemporary writers are rediscovering Queen Luise following the renaissance of interest in Prussia during the first ‘Prussian Wave’ (1977–82) and the ‘Prussian Year’ of 2001. This article argues that she is being repurposed by what I term a ‘third wave’ of Prussian nostalgia currently occurring in Germany. Drawing on memory studies and nostalgia studies, I argue that Queen Luise can be considered a ‘lieu de mémoire’ (Nora, 1984) whose changing commemorations reflect modulating perspectives on the Prussian era during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The article provides an overview of the rediscovery of Prussian history before analysing three representative texts that reflect shifting attitudes towards Prussia and the Queen: Gertrud Mander's conventional biography Königin Luise (1981), Friedrich Christian Delius's novel, Der Königsmacher (2001), which features a cameo appearance from the Queen, and Thomas Hettche's fictional account of the early nineteenth-century Pfaueninsel in Berlin-Wannsee, Pfaueninsel (2014). I propose that these commemorations reflect both the twenty-first century trend for nostalgia (Boym, 2001), as well as a tendency towards ‘perverse nostalgia’ (Kohlke, 2017).

新普鲁士文艺复兴:路易丝女王的文学纪念
在第二次世界大战之后,德国抛弃了曾经的民族偶像,包括普鲁士女王路易丝(1776-1810)。然而,尽管有人断言她的传奇已经过时(Förster, 2011),但随着第一次“普鲁士浪潮”(1977-82)和2001年“普鲁士年”期间对普鲁士的兴趣复兴,当代作家正在重新发现路易丝女王。这篇文章认为,她正在被我所说的“第三波”普鲁士怀旧浪潮重新定位,目前正在德国发生。根据记忆研究和怀旧研究,我认为露易丝女王可以被认为是一个“代替者”(诺拉,1984年),她不断变化的纪念活动反映了20世纪和21世纪普鲁士时代不断变化的观点。本文在分析反映对普鲁士和王后态度转变的三个代表性文本之前,概述了普鲁士历史的重新发现:格特鲁德·曼德的传统传记Königin路易斯(1981),弗里德里希·克里斯蒂安·德利乌斯的小说,《德尔Königsmacher》(2001),其中女王出现了一个小角色,以及托马斯·赫特切对19世纪早期柏林万湖的Pfaueninsel的虚构描述,Pfaueninsel(2014)。我认为,这些纪念活动既反映了21世纪的怀旧趋势(Boym, 2001),也反映了一种“反常怀旧”的趋势(Kohlke, 2017)。
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-
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期刊介绍: - German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.
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