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Aber auch nie lustiger. Urs Widmer starb am 2. Die Hauptfigur in Tim Krohns Buch ist: Von bis kreuzen viele abenteuerliche Schicksale ihren Weg. Ein tolles Kleinstpanorama allerbester Machart. Gegen den Rat seiner Freunde er ist Jude, wir schreiben das Jahr macht er sich mit seiner Angetrauten auf nach Berlin. Und das ist nur der Anfang der Abenteuer dieser Matratze bester Machart: In den folgenden sechzig Jahren reist sie durch halb Europa.

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Doch zwei Geheimagenten, ebenfalls als Wahnsinnige getarnt, sind ihm auf der Spur. Nur einer ergreift die Chance, der Frau neu zu begegnen, auch wenn ihnen nicht mehr viel Zeit bleibt. Als Bestie am Leben zu bleiben oder als guter Mensch zu sterben. Nichts ist so, wie es scheint — und wer ist Edward Daniels wirklich? Henri-John will nur das eine: Auf einer Autobahnmautstelle, bei einem seiner Gelegenheitsjobs, tippte Philippe Djian seinen ersten Roman. Sein dritter Roman, Betty Blue, wurde zum Kultbuch. Der Autor lebt heute in Biarritz und Paris.

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Er war Lehrer, Reporter und Kunsttischler, bis er in der Schriftstellerei sein Metier fand und zu einem der wichtigsten englischen Autoren des In Parabeln und Maximen aus drei Jahrtausenden zeigt sie ihm Wege zum weisen Umgang mit sich selbst, mit Konflikten und schwierigen Lebenssituationen. Der eine ist Sohn eines Arztes, der andere stammt aus einer reichen Adelsfamilie. Fred Uhlman starb in London. Anand ist Unternehmer in Bangalore, Kamala seine Hausangestellte. Und von dem, was sie verbindet: Die Farben der Hoffnung ist ihr erster Roman.

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In a bid to objectify his experiences, the narrator creates a protagonist, Frank, and follows him during the evening of his release from military service. Both have served at the Berlin Wall and find the return home exposes how they have changed irrevocably, and not in any positive way.

Both must pay a heavy price for their time in the NVA, as their private lives are ravaged by destructive tensions. In view of the problems facing readers of the main overarching text, the parallels do not seduce one into an autobiographical reading in this instance, largely because of the attention to the fate of other characters. For Frank, his relationship with Kathrin foundered following the birth of their daughter: Whilst Frank and his colleagues must contemplate the ruins of their private lives, they are also confronted with widespread social ignorance of what military service entailed for the young men.

As Frank snaps at the two girls who flirt with him and Glogies in the station buffet: Yet it does not deter one of them from enquiring: Although it focuses solely on the first hours of his release, the screenplay indicates how problematic the readjustment to everyday life is going to be for Frank in particular, and by implication for the others as well. As morning arrives, he collapses, a little melodramatically perhaps, on the street overwhelmed by grief and engulfed by images from his past, central to which are shots of him on duty at the Wall. It reveals how trying to provide a definitive label for the material is somewhat irrelevant, if not futile.

The key concern is that the accounts should ring true as believable treatments of individual experience. As the narrator observes: The text reveals that this rupture runs very deep, affecting his sense of self and thereby his capacity for selfexpression. Thus no one format or rendition can heal this wound, all of which might explain why Saeger should adopt an eclectic approach in the end, reflecting a, possibly futile, desire to unite disparate aspects of his identity into a more unified whole.

It is this sense of frustration that pervades the main narrative of Die Nacht danach und der Morgen. It begins - after the insertion of the screenplay - with a diary entry for 17 November Unsurprisingly, the sense of betrayal is expressed strongly as the full scale of the corruption and hypocrisy of the ruling elite emerges.

The narrator remarks bitterly: Der Kapitalismus steht am Abgrund - wir sind einen Schritt weiter. His children pester him about when they can travel to the West, and already appear to have turned their backs on the GDR. Driving home from D. Mehrmals die Verlockung, einen Baum als Zielpunkt zu nehmen. DN, This disturbingly suicidal compulsion anticipates the nightmare he suffers later that night, in which he is stoned and buried under rocks in a hole in the ground.

Firstly, he is unable to rid himself of a debilitating creative lethargy, at a time when critical intellectuals could, and should in his opinion, be offering guidance: DN, The views expressed here are those shared by many GDR intellectuals and writers at this time, especially at the large demonstration at Alexanderplatz on 4 November , where luminaries such as Christa Wolf, Stefan Heym and Christoph Hein grasped the unprecedented opportunity to address the public at an open, democratic forum and called for a reformed democratic GDR.

For the plain truth is that the changing circumstances of the GDR have not only affected him politically, but also creatively, which is potentially far more damaging. Against this yardstick, the narrator has fallen a long way short. Uwe Saeger 71 Nevertheless, a string of images do emerge, despite the linguistic complexity, which conjure up an impression of the events surrounding the Wende.

Yet the mood of the poem is in no way celebratory. Uwe Saegers Prosawerk der 80er Jahre Neubrandenburg: Literaturzentrum, , pp. Structurally, the oxymoron might also suggest the ideological divide between West and East Germany, terms which until operated as political antonyms. Es ballt sich der Zeit. Und ich treib und treib und bin doch bereit Will wanken nicht und weiche doch Vorm dialogischen Gebet Hab mich nicht und will mich noch Gesellen zum Letzten der wi e dersteht. Wie leb ich weiter? DN, The presence of the blackbird as a commentator on events echoes the work of Georg Trakl, in which the bird is often a critical or melancholic voice.

Reclam, , p. Far from representing a land beyond meaning, the poem invites a reading on both a personal and political level. Its depiction of the ebb and flow of events, mirrored in stylistic devices such as oxymoron, reflects the uncertain future ahead for the GDR and its citizens. One might argue in light of events since reunification in , especially from the perspective of eastern Germans, that the poem contains a degree of prescience.

His citation of Thomas Mann would suggest that he is not advocating or seeking to adopt an overtly apolitical stance in the manner of the Prenzlauer Berg poets. The poem is an expression of frustration at not being able to engage with events, but in itself does not embody a solution. DN, For the narrator, however, there is no suggestion that the poem has helped him cure his creative block. What the poem does provide, 74 Mapping the Contours of Oppression though, is a clue to the root of the problem. For the likes of Saeger, the erection of the Berlin Wall destroyed any theoretical hopes of an alternative mode of existence in the GDR.

In effect, their world shrunk overnight. As a consequence, the lives of most of these authors followed a broadly similar pattern, with many of them trying many different jobs before finally embarking on a literary career. The writers who belonged to the middle generation and would have benefited from the more emancipated atmosphere that many expected once the growing pains of the GDR had ceased, came to embody, and then articulate, this frustration: But it was a society that deliberately set out to shape them by controlling their formative experiences.

If, as Eakin argues, our sense of self is dependent upon relational forces, at the macro and micro level, then even a critical perspective upon society can be seen ex negativo as a product of that self-same society. Modes of behaviour and expectation had been inculcated in him. He is unable to turn his 39 Ibid. Christoph Hein was another to address the demonstration on 4 November and voice hopes of reform, rather than reunification, thereby underlining his resilient optimism. By contrast, as we have seen, Volker Braun was less sanguine.

In fact, the opposite occurs: It is a relentless excoriation: Saeger had earlier made the same observation in his interview with Klaus Hammer: Ist das nun ein Schuld? Initially directed at Christa Wolf and Was bleibt, the debate later escalated to embrace all GDR authors, and ultimately post German literature as a whole. Aufbau, , pp.

This more general article is derived, in part, from his specific review in Freitag. Uwe Saeger 77 reason not to — then his self-critical analysis of the role of the writer in the GDR shows remarkable foresight. Wolf was accused of cowardice for not having published her short piece at the time of its creation, purported to be But any text that made surveillance by the Stasi its explicit theme would have stood little chance of publication in the GDR, especially in the wake of the Biermann expulsion and the cultural freeze that ensued.

Her only option would have been to publish in the West, but as Stephen Brockmann indicates: Dichter wachsen aus der Enge. DN, It would appear that his creative crisis derives largely from existential concerns, a fact that Saeger makes explicit in his interview: Fischer, , pp. It is especially illuminating in describing the reactions that emigrations unleashed in writers and readers alike. For as Brockmann outlines, those critics who were suspicious of, if not downright hostile to, politically committed literature advocated the reassertion of more aesthetic criteria after Literature […] should be a purely aesthetic game unencumbered by the heavy and oafish moralism of political commitment.

The political role of literature in the two Germanys, critics argued, was a relic from the unhappy authoritarian past, and it should be discarded as writers in both Germanys integrated themselves into a normal western 46 democracy. Naturally, for authors inured to a dogmatic perception of literature — even if it was a perception they sought to undermine or rail against — a seamless transition to a new approach is inconceivable.

DN, 46 Brockmann, p. Uwe Saeger 79 The feeling that one could, and should, have done more as an author is not uncommon in work published by GDR authors after Worst of all, rather than violating any borders, either physically or metaphorically, he spent twelve months protecting the Berlin Wall for the State. And therein lies the root of his debilitating personal crisis. It emerges forcefully that the nature of his military service has haunted him. Not only from the vivid nightmares he suffers at regular intervals, all of which can be seen to possess an inherent metaphorical force stemming from his time as a border guard, but also in the manner in which his original fictional treatment reappears once the Wall has fallen, it is clear that a personal reckoning with his past is essential.

Measuring his achievements alongside the original motivation and rationale for embarking on a writing career, the narrator feels that he has fallen well short of his avowed intention to expiate his sense of guilt in literary form for having complied with the State. Ich redete die Armeerlebnisse wie einen Wall vor mich. Jede Minute der Tage hatte ich klar vor mir. Ich redete den Jargon, ich roch und schmeckte, wovon ich sprach. Und ich redete und redete. Es war noch immer in mir. Ich sah die Gesichter, ich lief die Wege. DN, The corporeal impact of these memories shock and overwhelm him.

On the journey home, his thoughts elide into the detailed recollection of a military exercise at Streganz, crawling through the tunnels of the army range during a 47 Christa Wolf, Was bleibt Munich: DTV, , pp. In light of the criticisms levelled at the author, quotations such as this seem doubly apposite. He is so utterly transfixed that he remembers nothing of the drive home: As the narrator reflects upon his memory of the Streganz exercise, the full extent of his collusion with the State becomes clear to him: With hindsight, the narrator intimates that even at the time he knew that passive resistance was problematic, or most likely ineffectual.

In the face of an apparently incontrovertible reality, he compares his response to that of Willy Brandt, the Mayor of West Berlin in , whom he quotes extensively at this point in the text. Although as powerless as Saeger, Brandt resolved never to accept the Wall: Trakl wrote the eponymous poem in hospital following a nervous breakdown in the wake of the battle.

As we have seen, the poem included in the main body of the text underlines the affinity the narrator feels with Trakl. The fate of Trakl perhaps puts his own into perspective. Nevertheless, events in the autumn of and their impact upon him underline the way his fate appears to be bound up irrevocably with the Wall: The symbol of division and oppression is quite literally a part of him, in an image that recalls the opening lines of his poem.

By examining the complex, introspective nature of the narrative, the more insidious aspects of totalitarianism in the GDR and its impact on identity can be detected, but we must also consider the more overt external structures and manifestations of totalitarian rule that are presented in the text. The tactics of intimidation 48 Eakin HOL, In fact, one might argue that the intimidation deriving from 49 One of the earliest, and best, studies is provided by Joachim Gauck, Die StasiAkten: HarperCollins, can be recommended.

For a recent study of this area, see also Paul Cooke and Andrew Plowman eds. Dealing with the Stasi Basingstoke: The article offers a condensed, and very accessible, summary of aspects of his larger survey. Uwe Saeger 83 someone purporting to be related to a former colleague of the narrator is actually more disturbing.

The narrator is initially mystified: The following week, the narrator is telephoned by a DEFA producer, seemingly out of the blue, about the possibility of filming the screenplay. Ultimately, the sudden interest would appear to have little to do with coincidence. The unsettling impact of this sequence of events on the narrator is doubtless accentuated by his own creative impasse. In essence, it borrows heavily from the original tale, recounting the return home of two conscriptees, but with the added dramatic tension of being set in October As a result, the narrator grudgingly concedes that it surpasses his own, rather laboured, version: Der Text des M.

Du galtest schon als kooperativ. Aber so war die Strategie damals. Two men had visited him and denied that the budding author, with whom he had been in contact, was one of their operatives: Ich war immer in Erwartung eines Unheils, das von dieser Episode seinen Ausgang nahm. Ich trank viel 52 und ich schrieb nichts. Clearly unsettled, it is striking that the narrator should resort to alcohol once more, as he had following his tour of duty at the Berlin Wall.

In an ironic twist, when one considers the proactive role the Stasi played in combating insurgency, the narrator is chided for his inactivity and apparent indifference towards the fate of the GDR: Hatte der Meister etwa Angst? War er sich zu schade? Wars doch nicht seine Stunde, nicht seine Zeit?

Furthermore, the existential situation of the two diametrically opposed characters seems strikingly similar, thus reflecting a far broader social pattern, for both are plagued by doubts about their professional futures. On the one hand, mercifully, Glockengiesser is now unemployed: Conversely, the narrator himself is uncertain whether he will be able to write again now that the Wall has fallen. The text thus depicts most effectively not only the causes, but also the symptoms, of the pressures exerted on individuals in the GDR. What is more, the psychological ramifications of this pressure are manifest in the very form of Die Nacht danach und der Morgen, the disjointedly hybrid nature of which reflects the disorientation of the author.

The conflation of different documents in Die Nacht danach und der Morgen, some of which appear overtly autobiographical and others of which may be fictional, makes it impossible to define it as a conventional autobiography. The narrative time is not chronological; rather it is syncopated with leaps back and forth within passages of interior monologue, giving the effect of snatches of memories being flung together.

In this respect, the movement between temporal planes in the narrative closely resembles the same almost arbitrary process in Kindheitsmuster, in which the narrator glides between three different periods in her life: Carsten Gansel sees striking similarities between the two texts in their handling of memory: Uwe Saegers 54 Buch […] ist der poetische Versuch, eben das zu tun.

The reasons for this decision emerge within the text, as it would appear to indicate that thorough selfknowledge lies beyond the grasp of the author. If this is true, how can subjectivity be conveyed in textual terms? On several occasions, the narrator throws up his hands in despair at being unable to explain himself and find the words or the form to do so.

The notion of elusive subjectivity is reiterated when he is unable to explain his resignation from the Schriftstellerverband: The dilemma is one he shares with the narrator of Kindheitsmuster: So what is Saeger trying to achieve? Is this not postmodern playfulness after all, an aesthetic game? One need only acknowledge the strong moral and self-critical tone of the narrative to reject such an interpretation. How could it be otherwise in a totalitarian system that sought quite deliberately to mould its citizens to fit a template?

Saeger is driven by this same existential imperative: The compulsion to write is evident, and even though the words prove frustratingly, almost cripplingly, elusive, it is this very compulsion that is key; it marks an attempt at least to articulate the self as coherently as possible, instead of surrendering to silence. By , individuation was still subject to debilitating pressures that stunted the growth of fully rounded identities.

As a representative of the middle generation, Saeger bears all the scars of his GDR upbringing. That the text bears no genre description underlines this fact: In a final dream-vision sequence, the narrator sees himself as Laokoon — like Cassandra, destined never to be believed — warning the Trojans about gifts from the Greeks: Overnight, the world has changed, arguably for the better, but it will take time to adjust to the changed Heimat: DN, On this occasion, the narrator describes himself as being trapped in an iron construction, but aware of space opening up below, presumably room in which he might move.

Uwe Saeger 91 trapped in iron, but truly rootless? It is more an expression of the ambivalence the narrator feels about events, which derives from the need to deal with the past, before truly engaging with the present: As the complex structure of Die Nacht danach und der Morgen indicates, however, confronting the past is easier said than done, due to the depredations inflicted upon individuals by the State.

For Saeger, as we have seen, his passivity in the GDR engenders a deep sense of shame and guilt, but it is hard to censure him, when one considers the environment within which he grew up. The problems that Saeger has in coming to terms with his actions reflect the scale of those pressures, arguably in a more effective manner than Wolf was able to achieve in Was bleibt.

Die Nacht danach und der Morgen does raise similar concerns, but offers more insight into the nature of GDR society at large. And therein lies the considerable strength of this remarkable, challenging book. Ultimately, it matters little where precisely the line between fact and fiction is drawn in Die Nacht danach und der Morgen: Thus, the pressures placed upon individuals come to the fore, together with the sense of disorientation that many people were to feel as the GDR crumbled; not so much because the State was much beloved by its people, but rather that it had been their home and embodied familiar surroundings.

Many GDR commentators have described the effects of this overnight transition to freedom with detachment, but Saeger has arguably provided the earliest searching literary analysis of the ramifications from a subjective perspective. It should be noted that these young voices can now be heard. Eine Jugend It seems to me unnecessary to add that none of the facts are invented. Abacus, , p. All subsequent references to this volume will appear in the text in the form ITM, All page references to this edition will appear in the text in he form WL, Both profess to have been motivated by a desire to bear witness to all they have seen, and to this end composed documents during their internment: My need to tell the story was so strong in the Camp that I had begun describing my experiences there, on the spot, in that German laboratory laden with freezing cold, the war, and vigilant eyes; and yet I knew that I would not be able under any circumstances to hold on to those haphazardly scribbled notes, and that I must throw them away immediately because if they were found they would be considered an act of espionage and would cost me my life.

In this way, for all the contextual and stylistic correlations that exist, one ought to view If This is a Man and weiter leben rather as complementary texts which broaden the focus of debate on the Holocaust. Survivors have come to terms with their experiences in a personal manner, and in this way their individual reflections rescue a sense of self from the collective dehumanisation that the concentration camps sought to impose on the prisoners. Subsequent page references to this edition will appear in the text in the form JSS, Wer sich selbst auszieht, der sagt, ich mach, was ich will, oder sogar, bitte, du kannst mich.

Der Zustand ist neutral; der Kontext ist alles. WL, Each subjective account interprets that context anew, providing fresh perspectives on the experience and thereby contributing to a more differentiated appreciation of the Holocaust and its victims. Although the picture of, what has been termed, the univers concentrationnaire may seem quite clear, by virtue of the many artistic and documentary representations of the Holocaust that now exist, each new account can provide different insights to shock or elucidate that humiliating experience still further.

Erst jetzt, an dieser Stelle, frage ich mich, wieso Orte, wenn ich doch eine bin, die nirgendwo lange war und wohnt. Wir fangen mit dem an, was blieb: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust London: Little, Brown and Company, Ultimately, as weiter leben indicates, it is not the form but the content of the material dealing with the univers concentrationnaire which counts. Die Holocaust-Literatur ist im Schnittpunkt zwischen dem einmaligen und dem wiederholbaren Megaverbrechen angesiedelt. Sie mag Gedicht, Fiktion, Drama, Berichterstattung und was es sonst noch gibt, sein.

One cannot help but feel that objections to Jakob the Liar stemmed largely from the casting of eccentric comedian Robin Williams in the lead role. Was stimmt hier denn nicht? Von einem geschlossenen Ganzen kann hier nicht die Rede sein, das Skizzenhafte und Fragmentarische dieses Buches wird von seiner Autorin nicht verheimlicht, sondern programmatisch betont.

Und letztlich bietet sie uns vielleicht weniger als einen Roman, doch zugleich mehr: Ist die Zeit schlimm, dann kann man nichts Besseres mit ihr tun, als sie zu vertreiben, und jedes Gedicht wird zum Zauberspruch. WL, Despite the seemingly reductive function of poetry as a way of passing the time, its significance in keeping the author mentally alert should not be overlooked. Frustrated by his inadequate mastery of French and the gaps in his memory, Levi is nonetheless encouraged to continue his recital: Das Gedicht transzendierte die Wirklichkeit nicht mehr.

Da stand es und war nur sachliche Aussage: It is futile, even facile, to attempt to reduce that experience to a universal template. Yet, conversely, the explanation she provides of how and why they were thus conceived offers fascinating insights into their immeasurable importance for her at that time: The intellectual and emotional investment in literature, it seems, facilitates an active response instead of a passive absorption of the facts: Wer nur erlebt reim- und gedankenlos, ist in Gefahr, den Verstand zu verlieren […]. Ich hab den Verstand nicht verloren, ich hab Reime gemacht.

It comes as no great surprise, therefore, that in spite of her admiration for Paul Celan, she should be so critical of his complex poetry. Ernestine Schlant provides a detailed survey of the debate about whether or not the Holocaust should ever be conceptualised linguistically, summarising in particular how Adorno eventually rescinded his initially dogmatic refusal to countenance any literary adaptation thereof.

Mapping the Contours of Oppression retain the memory that is perhaps the only meaningful association we can have with Auschwitz: Irrespective of her own, rather harsh, assessment of their deficiencies, those of her poems that she interpolates into the text of weiter leben represent significant attempts to interpret the univers concentrationnaire and consequently possess intrinsic value for their blend of Wahrheit and Dichtung. The first poem she cites is one dealing with her father, who left his family behind in Vienna, only to perish in a concentration camp in France.

In this way, her poems about him are to be seen as purely functional personal documents with validity solely as exorcisms. Her Auschwitz poems might therefore be seen to perform a similar function. No attempt is made to embellish the description or to inject any sense of drama or pathos into the text. Zwei alte Frauen stritten. Worte wechselnd standen sie am Eingang der Baracke.

But with the […] men in decay, it is not even worth speaking, because one knows already that they will complain and will speak about what they used to eat at home. Even less worthwhile is it to make friends with them, because they have no distinguished acquaintances in camp, they do not gain any extra rations, they do not work in profitable Kommandos and they know no secret method of organizing. And in any case, one knows that they are only here on a visit, that in a few weeks nothing will remain of them but a handful of ashes in some near-by field and a crossed-out number on a register.

Preis der Frankfurter Anthologie: To readers now, such ruthless pragmatism is decidedly unsettling. Nevertheless, as Steinfeld observes, there is no mistaking a frequent brusqueness in weiter leben. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, , p. Ich denke dann, die wollen mir mein Leben nehmen, denn das Leben ist doch nur die verbrachte Zeit, das einzige, was wir haben, das machen sie mir streitig, wenn sie mir das Recht des Erinnerns in Frage stellen.

History, she argues, is seen as the preserve of men: As a result, women should be entitled to articulate their memories in the same way as men, for there was an undeniable equality in persecution and suffering. A commitment to feminism underpins the text, therefore, but must be seen in the context of wresting a voice for all witnesses whose testimonies have been drowned out or ignored, for whatever reason. Ariadne, , pp. In particular, it is the poems that are interpolated into the text that offer glimpses of an individual coming to terms with the Holocaust and rescuing a sense of self.

Darf man den Holocaust deuten? The problem, she argues, stems from too many people being unable to deal with uncomfortable or traumatic memories, either their own or those of other people. In this regard, the essay opens bluntly: Wir erinnern uns, nicht weil wir sollen oder wollen, um keines kategorischen Imperativs willen, sondern weil wir so veranlagt sind, weil es uns nicht gegeben ist, uns nicht zu erinnern.

But she is not only stressing the legitimacy of her need to articulate her own memories; more importantly, she is also demanding that others should listen. The text is replete with other such examples aimed at correcting some of the preconceived ideas the author has encountered. As a telling postscript to this situation, she believes that the postwar refusal of the Poles to commemorate separately the Polish Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz indicates a disturbing level of anti-Semitism and a significant distortion of the truth. Rather than promoting a better understanding of what happened, these memorials paradoxically run the risk of distorting the past because they cannot possibly recreate the horror experienced by the prisoners.

The horrific nature of the past thus remains elusive, beyond the reach of imagination. Primo Levi voices similar reservations following a visit to the museum at Auschwitz, in which gruesome relics are displayed: But rearranged for whose benefit, one might ask?

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Is it not possible that these pitiful collections of mundane objects might bring home the reality of the Holocaust to those fortunate enough not to have been there? Ein Besucher, der hier steht und ergriffen ist, […] wird sich dennoch als ein besserer Mensch vorkommen.

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As a consequence, the sincerity of the emotional response they arouse must be called into question. As Schlant observes in The Language of Silence, the authenticity of the hysterical responses generated in Germany by the broadcast of the American television film Holocaust in was equally suspect. It is clear that she would rather readers of these texts — and by extension, visitors to concentration camp memorials, or viewers of television programmes — displayed the same emotional detachment which underpins weiter leben. Da ging ich beruhigt fort.

Theresienstadt war kein KZ-Museum geworden. WL, In effect, the return of normality to the area is the best commemoration for the horrors of the past. Instead of an unnatural vacuum, life has begun again. Her dislike of the museum culture surrounding some KZ can be seen in the wider context of the problem she has raised of how best to represent the Holocaust. By implication, it is such works that have helped shape the perceptions of those such as Gisela, who have subsequently trivialised or sentimentalised the Holocaust accordingly.

Although Apitz himself spent eight years in the camp, his account was produced in the GDR in the mids and duly bears the hallmarks of Socialist Realism, with the attendant partial interpretation one would expect from such a work. Produced in exile, Das siebte Kreuz is underpinned by a defiant optimism that National Socialism could be defeated and that a sense of humanity would prevail. It is especially evident on those occasions when the author addresses her readers directly.

Anticipating scepticism during her account of how she was able to avoid selection in Auschwitz, for example, she remarks: At another juncture, she criticises those who believe it to be in the gift of the victims to provide absolution for the perpetrators: It is as if the author herself has been overwhelmed, albeit briefly, by her emotions or outrage, and resorts to the kind of sermonising approach that runs the risk of perpetuating the very responses she is endeavouring to counteract. Aber seid ihr das wirklich?

Wollt ihr wirklich so sein? She wants not only to engage them in discussion, but also to provoke a response in them. In view of the extermination that took place at Auschwitz, the fact that she was not allowed to sit on a park bench at seven years of age might seem banal. The action of a stranger, who surreptitiously gives her an orange on a tram, Mapping the Contours of Oppression can no longer be interpreted simply as a gesture of kindness when viewed in its totalitarian context: It is interesting to observe in autobiographies dealing with the Nazi period how often the role of cinema emerges, providing evidence of its value as both a propaganda tool and a barometer of the period.

Es war der reine Terror. Juden ist der Eintritt ins Kino gesetzlich untersagt. Hast du das gesehen? Wo ein unsauberer Profit zu machen war, und sei er auch noch so kleinlich, wie die 10 Pfennige pro Judenstern, haben die Nazis einkassiert. There were fundamental differences between the three camps she was imprisoned in, which explains why she devotes time to each in turn in her account. Nevertheless, highlighting the individual nature of each camp does not detract from the suffering that existed in them all.

Similarly, although conditions in Christianstadt were much better than in her previous camps — the Mapping the Contours of Oppression prisoners were issued with proper clothing, for instance, and the female guards are described as not unfriendly — the inmates were still perceived as animals: Although the experience was less brutally degrading than at Auschwitz, it was dehumanising nonetheless. In relative terms, juxtaposed alongside the description of her childhood in Vienna, it is easy to see why she might feel this way.

Yet one must not overlook the important qualification in her remark. For all the beneficial influences she was exposed to in the camp, it remained a prison: Ein Ameisenhaufen, der zertreten wurde.

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WL, There is no qualification now. The chances of successful selection for the author were remote; she was just twelve and was certain she did not look any older than thirteen. Irrespective of the role of good fortune, that there was still the capacity for humanity to prevail is crucial. To ask other readers questions about Abschalten , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Fun satire and anthology about burned out business men trying to relax during holiday. I smiled several times. The manager characters are ambitious and strategic, even at the beach.

They enforce quality time with their children, manage their ever-growing bellies and push through tactical arguments with their stay-at-home wives. Back at work, they believe they're infallible and perfect, and yet, they fear getting replaced by cheaper and younger newcomers. I burned through the book in two days and Fun satire and anthology about burned out business men trying to relax during holiday. I burned through the book in two days and wished for more content.

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Now onto the next Suter story! Martin Suter has been on my check list for a long time now, but until recently I just never got to reading one of his books. Now that I have, I have to admit I've been missing out on something it seems. This book is a collage of short pieces on stressed-out business managers and their issues with taking off some time.

Very funny, sometimes subtle, sometimes with a more direct approach, I think I'll check out another novel by Martin Suter soon Nicht wirklich Lustig, weil vorhersagbar. Nicht wirklich unterhaltsam, weil nicht nennenswert neu. Es liest sich sehr kurzweilig, jeder Leser erkennt bestimmt einige der Manager-Typen aus dem Alltag wieder Witzig auf jeden Fall: I do not really like a book made by short histories and it was my fault this time do not pay attention on that.

Nevertheless I found some histories repetitive and not really so interesting.