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Meine freie deutsche Jugend und Lagerfeuer: zwei grundverschiedene Erzähltexte über die DDR
2021
The article compares "Meine freie deutsche Jugend", 2003, of Claudia Rusch and "Lagerfeuer", 2003 of Julia Franck. These two texts are partly autobiographical and tell about the life of many young people in East Germany (DDR). The two authors write of traumatic experiences related to the political situation in the DDR which are still alive even today in united Germany in the memory of many Germans.
Eher Trauma als erfüllter Traum: Flüchtlinge aus der DDR in Julia Francks Roman „Lagerfeuer“ (2012) und in Christian Schwochows Film „Westen“ (2013)
2020
This paper aims to investigate the descriptions of traumatic life experiences of refugees from the DDR in literature and film. This essay examines the novel Lagerfeuer (2003) of Julia Franck and the film version Westen (2013) directed by Christian Schwochow. The two East Germans artists show the existential traumas of those people who had to leave their homes from different perspectives and in different artistic genres.