Stasi, sex and soundtracks: Thomas Brussig's Postalgie

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dc.contributor.authorNijdam, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.supervisorGölz, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2007-07-30T17:47:06Z
dc.date.available2007-07-30T17:47:06Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-07-30T17:47:06Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Germanic and Russian Studies
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Germanic and Slavic Studies
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractSince the fall of the Wall, a new era of East German literature has emerged. This genre of literature exists even though East Germany’s borders dissolved over a decade and half ago and is challenging the way we think about the former German Democratic Republic. East German author Thomas Brussig is pivotal in this new genre of literature. His novels Helden wie wir (1995), Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (1999) and Leander Haußmann’s cinematic adaptation, Sonnenallee (1999), confront the negative associations and stereotypes connected with East Germany to deconstruct how formal history has portrayed its past and its citizens. Brussig’s texts take a completely different approach to remembering the GDR, which simultaneously challenges history’s dominant perspective as well as the Ostalgie phenomenon. Through his texts’ recollection, Brussig subverts the East German state in hindsight and begins the construction of a new mythology with which to associate former East Germany.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/182
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectThomas Brussigen_US
dc.subjectOstalgieen_US
dc.subjectGerman Literatureen_US
dc.subjectGerman Filmen_US
dc.subjectPostalgieen_US
dc.subjectSonnenalleeen_US
dc.subjectHelden wie wiren_US
dc.subjectBerlin Wallen_US
dc.subjectEast Germanyen_US
dc.subjectGDRen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.titleStasi, sex and soundtracks: Thomas Brussig's Postalgieen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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