{"title":"Die Geschichte des ,kleinen Volkes‘ in den Augen des ,großen Palastes‘","authors":"Lucie Antošíková","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-010","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the possibilities and strategies of transnational cultural memory using the novel The Praise of Opportunism (2016) by Marek Toman as the main example. Conceptually, the paper is based on the works of Aleida and Jan Assmann and focuses on how Czech (national) cultural memory is narrated, how it can be confronted with different collective memories and what might emerge from such confrontations.","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122943676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evgenia Maleninská, nach der Wende, Johanna Anderka, Gerold Effert, Peter Härtling, Bruno Herr, Gudrun Pausewang, Erica Pedretti, I. Tielsch, A. Assmann
{"title":"Erinnerungsnarrative der Vertreibung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur vor und nach der Wende","authors":"Evgenia Maleninská, nach der Wende, Johanna Anderka, Gerold Effert, Peter Härtling, Bruno Herr, Gudrun Pausewang, Erica Pedretti, I. Tielsch, A. Assmann","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-004","url":null,"abstract":": Memory Studies have examined the impact of the historical events of 1989 on (German) memory culture from multiple perspectives since the 1990s. The literary historian must ask whether the transnational opening that pressed the politics of remembrance after 1989 is also reflected in fictional texts of the same period. This contribution is particularly interested in changes in narratives of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II as presented in books published by eight German authors before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Johanna Anderka, Gerold Effert, Peter Härtling, Bruno Herr, Gudrun Pausewang, Erica Pedretti, Ilse Tielsch, Gustav Wiese. Czech and German char-acter constellations are examined in these texts to reveal a transformation from nationally related homogenization and particularization in the self-determina-tion of both ethnic groups in early works (initially assumed for texts of the pre-vious period) to a more differentiated representations of characters in later texts. The study’s main aim is to reveal both constants and changes in these narratives of the expulsion over time, thus offering an overview of narratives typical for each period and their modifications during the given decades.","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125911243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angehaltene Narration","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134640375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130881235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terezín und Jasenovac – Umkämpfte Gedenkstätten vor und nach 1989","authors":"Ljiljana Radonić","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-003","url":null,"abstract":": Terezín was turned into a memorial site in 1947. Unlike the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia that was destroyed by the Ustaša in 1945, the Czech concentration camp was largely untouched by the end of the war. During the libe-ralization phase of the 1960s, Czechoslovak authorities began planning a ghetto museum in Terezín to be dedicated to the Holocaust, which had until that time been marginalized. At the same time, the Yugoslav Communist Party authorized the construction of a memorial and museum in Jasenovac. This study explores whether the two sites of memory have played a comparable role in the communist narrative of the past since their establishment and examines the role the two museums now play in new national narratives of the post-communist era. The Ghetto Museum was established in Terezín in 1991, its current permanent exhibition opened in 2001. The current exhibition opened at the Jasenovac Memorial Museum in 2006, when Croatian EU accession talks were stagnating. The timing gives cause for the study to question the part the two institutions played in the respective country before joining the EU, that is, were the exhibitions understood as a “dray horse towards Europe”—as one Croatian journalist once put it—, as proof of the countries “Europeaness”? In addition, the museums’ treatment of different perpetrators, on the one hand, the Ustaša, who ran the camp on their own, and on the other, the members of the protectorate government and the gen-darmes who guarded the ghetto in Terezín, is examined in regard to their focus on the victims.","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134021385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Von den Grenzen nationaler Erinnerungskulturen, der Unmöglichkeit eines transnationalen und den Chancen eines ‚translationalen‘ Gedächtnisses","authors":"Manfred Weinberg","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-011","url":null,"abstract":"The essay denies the possibility of a transnational European culture of remembrance, for though it is repeatedly sought, the search must fail due to differences between national cultures of memory. Those involved are, however, not conscious of national peculiarities; their own culture of memory is understood as the only possibility. This corresponds to “thinking-as-usual,” coined by Alfred Schütz, which denotes never questioned thinking in our society of origin, of which we only become aware when we are abroad, where its self-evidence is challenged. The essay develops the concept of “thinking-as-usual” into a “remembering-as-usual.” This could be the basis of a conversation by explaining your own “remembering-as-usual” to others, but is only possible when one has recognized its relativity. In such a conversation, a translational memory would be established, whereby translation would not mean the transfer of meaning from one language to another, but—based on the considerations of the sociologist Andreas Langenohl—the creation of a “target context.” In translating conversation, there would be no common memory, but a polyphonic, always new translation. The commonality of Europe would therefore be based on the will to enter into a translating conversation and to remain in this conversation.","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115541974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhaltsverzeichnis","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-toc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-toc","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122575243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personenregister","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132706424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marek Nekula, Jiří Kratochvils, Roman Inmitten der Nacht Gesang
{"title":"Erbe der Dissidenz in der literarischen Repräsentation der ,Vertreibung‘?","authors":"Marek Nekula, Jiří Kratochvils, Roman Inmitten der Nacht Gesang","doi":"10.1515/9783110717679-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717679-005","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the literary representation of the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II as it is portrayed in Jiří Kratochvil’s novel Singing in the Middle of the Night, published in samizdat before 1989 and by Atlantis publishing house after 1989. On the one hand, the study views the novel in its broader context by considering discussions in the dissident and exile sphere which were triggered by the controversial theses formulated by Danubius (Ján Mlynárik) in 1978. On the other, it examines Kratochvil’s specific literary language as it critically recalls the expulsion of Germans and its justification by the idea of collective guilt. Kratochvil both challenges the concept of collective identity, on which collective guilt is based, by using hybrid figures and questions the role of the German perpetrator by using the figure of the female victim (ethnos is “turned off” by female gender). The paper further argues that female authors commemorating the end of World War II and the expulsion of Germans four generations later (Radka Denemarková, Kateřina Tučková etc.) employ the same or very similar literary language, thus continuing Kratochvil’s tradition. There is, however, a distinct difference between them and Kratochvil. Kratochvil’s self-critical essayistic and literary commemoration of the expulsion was highly controversial for readers of the late 1980s and the early 1990s, whereas 20 years later, a text using the same language can become a mainstream collective text with wide-spread readership. The tradition of self-critical remembrance of the expulsion could, of course, be seen on a continuum, extending beyond official literature before 1989.","PeriodicalId":364623,"journal":{"name":"Zwischen nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungsnarrativen in Zentraleuropa","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126311572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}