FICTIONALIZING THE UNWITNESSED HISTORY IN GERMAN LITERATURE: A CASE OF MARCEL BEYER

Authors : Gonca KİŞMİR

Pages : 31-41

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Publication Date : 2023-09-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The present study examines the perspectives of the third post-war generation of writers on history in German literature after World War II. The second post-war generation was replaced by the third generation, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the start of a \`new post-war literature\` insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Garbe: 2002);. Communicating styles of narrating historical events in literary texts indicate different reference points about the past. The present research seeks to understand the motives behind memory work related to the Nazi period and the Jewish Holocaust practised by third-generation authors who did not witness the Second World War and its aftermath by themselves, contrary to the first- and second-generation writers. The literary works of Marcel Beyer have been analyzed as an example of a third-generation author, along with the examination of the content and formal characteristics of communicative and cultural memory of different generations of authors. Marcel Beyer has used modern and post-modern narration techniques in his novels \`Flughunde\`insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1995);, \`Spione\` insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2000); and \`Kaltenburg\` insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2008); to stage historical information and details of the Nazi period and after, with fictional elements. The fact that Marcel Beyer constructs his novels based on people\`s memories and events in official history also indicates his responsibility towards his generation\`s history. Based on the author Marcel Beyer\`s work, this study examines why and how communicative and generational memory is transferred to the reader.
Keywords : İkinci Dünya Savaşı, Anımsama Kuşağı, İletişimsel bellek, Kuşak belleği, Marcel Beyer