Jüdische Identitäten nach 1945 bei Lenka Reinerová und Jurek Becker am Beispiel von Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht und Der Boxer
Jewish Identities after 1945 in Literary Works Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht by Lenka Reinerová and Der Boxer by Jurek Becker

Summary/Abstract: The article is a comparative study of Jurek Beckers´s novel Der Boxer (1976) and Lenka Reinerová´s story Alle Farben der Sonne und der Nacht (1969, 2003). It examines the literary depiction of the Jewish identity in the GDR and Czechoslovakia after WWII while focusing on the perception of the Jewish identity by the protagonists and by the East German and Czech society and its construction or deconstruction. The theoretical framework for this study is Aleida AAssmann´s concept of collective and cultural memory. The study pursues the following question: how is the Jewish fate and experience from the period after WWII represented in the Czech and (East)German cultural memory?

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