Appropriated Memory

The Creation of a German Post-Memorial Literature

By: Katia Pizzi, Reinhard Zachau

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Paperback | 8 September 2025

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Thâisââ bâook offers a survey of post-World War II German-language post-memorial writing.â An analysisâ ofâ the books byâ Heinrich B¶ll, G¼nter Grass, and Wolfgang Koeppenâ eâxposes the difficult path of German writing about the Holocaust. Koeppen's unauthorized ââappropriation of Jakob Littner's survivor memoir serves as the frame for thâis study,ââ âexposâingââ âthe differenceâsâ between perpetrator and victim perspectives. The various attempts âbyâ the current generationâ of authorsâ to bridge thâisâ âdivideâ âreflectâ the renewed interest and changed attitudeâsâ towards the Holocaust âthat emerged âin Germany after âRâeunification. Included in this volume are W. G. Sebald's imaginary dialogue between a victim and a perpetrator, Ursula Krechel's exploration of Jewish life in Shanghai from a Jewish perspective, Iris Hanika's presentation of the distraught mindset of a member of Germany's second perpetrator generation, and Kevin Vennemann's ânarrative aboutâ a Jewish child inâ the midst ofâ a Polish massacre.

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