Gwinejczyk na Alexanderplatz, czyli o możliwości zanieczyszczenia dominującej narracji
A Guinean on Alexanderplatz, or the Possibility of Contesting the Dominant Narrative

Summary/Abstract: Are there any parallels between the life in the Weimar Republic and in present-day Germany? Is the fate of a labourer living in Berlin at the end of the 1920s comparable to the existence of an African refugee in the German capital today? And finally, is it possible to contemporize and to re-mediatize the story so that the time difference (almost a hundred years) and the media difference (book vs film) between its versions would not purge it of its charm and wisdom – in short, its significance? The answer to all these questions is: yes. The author of the article analyses similarities and differences between the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (1929) and the film Berlin Alexanderplatz by Burhan Qurbani (2020) in the context of postcolonial theory, social determinism, and the categories of the abject and victim introduced by Thomas Elsaesser.

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