Bleiben oder gehen? Widerspiegelung der Auswanderungsgründe Rumäniendeutscher in ihrer Erinnerungsliteratur. Die kommunistische Zeit
Bleiben oder gehen? The Reasoning behind the Emigration of Ethnic Germans from Romania as Reflected in their Memoirs of Communism

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to extract – based on the analyses of narrative sources belonging to the memorialist literature – the elements which outline the personal and collective drama of the ethnic Germans in Romania authors during the communist regime, and most likely possible factors in their determination to emigrate. The memories, memoirs, and journals we have analyzed are significant sources of information regarding the lives of their authors and these sources allowed us to build a complex picture of the politics, culture, and environment they lived in. Accents and themes that are resumed in all works, as a leitmotif, are represented by the horrors of the communist period, the political system, censorship, discrimination, and last but not least by lack of freedom. The memoirs of these authors – witnesses and victims of the tragic events in the history of Romania and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century - are key tools that help to interpret, decode, and reconstruct historical realities from the period of the totalitarian regime.

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