Verbalisierung von Emotionen. Beweinung der DDR in Jana Hensels Buch „Zonenkinder”
Verbalization of Emotions. Mourning the GDR in Jana Hensel’s Book “Zonenkinder”

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the essay is to identify linguistic means that were used to describe emotional states in Jana Hensel’s bestseller book “Zonenkinder”, published in 2002. Quotations from the book are used to filter out and interpret feelings and attitudes. Zonenkinder is still regarded as a manifesto of an East German generation. The theses set out in this non-fiction book have been valid in practice until now, because they have in part a constitutive character for the new East German identity. A collectivism expressed with the collective We is also a move in the transition between the generation of losers and the generation of the new East Germans.

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