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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives, Juliana Mamou
Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives, Juliana Mamou
Wayne State University Dissertations
REMEMBERING EAST GERMAN CHILDHOOD IN
POST-WENDE LIFE NARRATIVES
by JULIANA MAMOU, May 2013
This dissertation explores how East German childhood is remembered in four exemplary auto/biographical texts that appeared in the early years of the twenty-first century. In Jana Hensel's Zonenkinder, Claudia Rusch's Meine freie deutsche Jugend, Jana Simon's Denn wir sind anders, and Robert Ide's Geteilte Träume. The depiction of childhood memories is moreover contextualized in the radical social, political and economic changes after the Wende and their effects on former East Germans as individuals and as a group. Written by authors who constitute a generational cohort who were …