Facetten der Angst in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Novelle Der Verlorene
Facets of anxiety in Hans-Ulrich Treichel‘s novella Der Verlorene

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the motif of anxiety in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's novella Der Ver- lorene. The novella focuses on the fate of an East Prussian family whose eldest son is lost in 1945 while fleeing from the Red Army. Although this loss triggers parental fear and anxiety, it also means that they can see themselves not as perpetrators but as victims of the Second World War. For the nameless first-person narrator, on the other hand, the search for his older brother is linked both to the anxiety of losing maternal and paternal love and to his own iden- tity. In Der Verlorene, Treichel designs a multi-layered concept of anxiety, within the frame- work of which anxiety is treated as a feeling that is closely linked to other psychological states such as fear and trauma, as well as being a highly individual experience.

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