Abstract
Marcel Beyer's novel Kaltenburg (2008) recalls the life of the zoologist Konrad Lorenz, though Beyer experimentally and ahistorically locates his enigmatic Lorenz figure, Ludwig Kaltenburg, in post-war Dresden. Some fifty years of pre- and post-war German history are spanned by the reminiscences of the ornithologist narrator, Kaltenburg's protégé Hermann Funk, orphaned by the Dresden fire-bombing. The article shows how German history is approached from unexpected angles, many of them to do with bird life and the history of ornithology, a kind of benign but shrewd alternative to mainstream narratives about the recent German past.
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