VON LASSING BIS KOSOVO AKTUELLE EREIGNISSE IN ANLIEGENBÜCHERN
FROM LASSING TO KOSOVO. ACTUAL EVENTS IN PILGRIM BOOKS

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with a certain aspect of the so called “pilgrim books”, which appeared from time to time during the last years but are still to be described as “marginal”: We read texts letting us feel the consternation of the authors, although they are not directly touched by the event they described. Usually pilgrim books contain texts with individual references, but in certain cases we find texts with collective references – taken as a theme we see war and peace, catastrophes, party and social politics. The lecture discovers this topic not only on the basis of different pilgrim books, but asks also the question, if and how often we find such kind of text in pilgrim books analysed by other scholars in the last decades.

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