Abstract
Abstract My paper will explore the interrelation between past, present and identity, as well as the dynamics of social change in contemporary German and Romanian literature, as exemplified by Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder (2002) and Ioana Bradea’s Scotch (2010). Both authors belong to a new generation of writers who, having experienced the collapse of the communist regime as adolescents, investigate the traumatic experience of change and adjustment to the social, economic and cultural realities of post-communist societies. While Hensel aims at recreating the lost Heimat (motherland) as an Erinnerungsraum (space of remembrance) and portraying the social tensions of the post-unification decade from an Eastern German perspective, Bradea focuses on depicting the desolate post-communist industrial landscape, as well as the everyday lives of anonymous Romanians caught in the vagaries of transition.
Highlights
Seit dem Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks durchlaufen die postsozialistischen Länder gesellschaftliche, politische und kulturelle Transformationsprozesse, die von ähnlichen Entwicklungs tendenzen geprägt sind
Both authors belong to a new generation of writers who
Bradea focuses on depicting the desolate post-communist industrial landscape
Summary
Seit dem Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks durchlaufen die postsozialistischen Länder gesellschaftliche, politische und kulturelle Transformationsprozesse, die von ähnlichen Entwicklungs tendenzen geprägt sind. Hensels Text zielt auf die Rekonstruktion der DDR als Herkunft- und Lebensraum für sie und ihre Generation, d.h. als erlebtes Zeit-Raum-Gefüge, ab:
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