“Versöhnung – Ja, Verzicht – Nein”? Marion Gräfin Dönhoff 1946-1970: The Evolution of Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s Views on the Loss of “German East” and Her New Perspective on Poland Cover Image

“Versöhnung – Ja, Verzicht – Nein“? Marion Gräfin Dönhoff 1946-1970: Territorialer Paradigmenwechsel und neue Sicht auf Polen
“Versöhnung – Ja, Verzicht – Nein”? Marion Gräfin Dönhoff 1946-1970: The Evolution of Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s Views on the Loss of “German East” and Her New Perspective on Poland

Author(s): Radosław Supranowicz
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: History of German culture; Polish-German culture of remembrance; Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s press articles; “Die Zeit” weekly

Summary/Abstract: This article will examine Marion Gräfin Dönhoff’s articles published in the Hamburg-based “Die Zeit“ weekly in the years 1946-1970. Dönhoff, a renowned German journalist, had to leave East Prussia and her family estate in 1945. The articles under analysis demonstrate an evolution of her views on the problem of losing the so-called German East, from the initial inability to come to terms with the new postwar territo-rial reality, to the eventual recognition that Germany’s loss of provinces in the East is permanent and final.

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: XXI
  • Page Range: 159-172
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: German