Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Purposes and Problems of German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century
- 1 Life Writing and Writing Lives: Ego Documents in Historical Perspective
- 2 From Erlebnis to Erinnerung: Rereading Soldiers’ Letters and Photographs from the First World War
- 3 From Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick: Ernst Jünger, Photography, Autobiography, and Modernity
- 4 Persuasive Illusions of the Self: Albert Speer’s Life Writing and Public Discourse about Germany’s Nazi Past
- 5 The Shoah before the Shoah: The Literary Technique of Allusion in Elias Canetti’s Autobiography
- 6 “Ich schäme mich meiner Augen”: Photography and Autobiographical Identities in Grete Weil’s Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben
- 7 “Mich in Variationen erzählen”: Günter Grass and the Ethics of Autobiography
- 8 Voyeurism? Autobiographies by Children of the Perpetrators: Niklas Frank’s Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung (1987) and Meine deutsche Mutter (2005)
- 9 Dismembering the Past, Remembering the Self: An Interrogation of Disability Narratives by Luise Habel and Christa Reinig
- 10 “Schicht um Schicht” — The Evolution of Fred Wander’s Life Writing Project in the GDR Era and Beyond
- 11 Thought Patterns and Explanatory Strategies in the Life Writing of High-Ranking GDR Party Officials after the Wende
- 12 “Ein reines Phantasieprodukt” or “Hostile Biography”? Günter de Bruyn’s Vierzig Jahre and the Stasi files
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Purposes and Problems of German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century
- 1 Life Writing and Writing Lives: Ego Documents in Historical Perspective
- 2 From Erlebnis to Erinnerung: Rereading Soldiers’ Letters and Photographs from the First World War
- 3 From Das Antlitz des Weltkrieges to Der gefährliche Augenblick: Ernst Jünger, Photography, Autobiography, and Modernity
- 4 Persuasive Illusions of the Self: Albert Speer’s Life Writing and Public Discourse about Germany’s Nazi Past
- 5 The Shoah before the Shoah: The Literary Technique of Allusion in Elias Canetti’s Autobiography
- 6 “Ich schäme mich meiner Augen”: Photography and Autobiographical Identities in Grete Weil’s Leb ich denn, wenn andere leben
- 7 “Mich in Variationen erzählen”: Günter Grass and the Ethics of Autobiography
- 8 Voyeurism? Autobiographies by Children of the Perpetrators: Niklas Frank’s Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung (1987) and Meine deutsche Mutter (2005)
- 9 Dismembering the Past, Remembering the Self: An Interrogation of Disability Narratives by Luise Habel and Christa Reinig
- 10 “Schicht um Schicht” — The Evolution of Fred Wander’s Life Writing Project in the GDR Era and Beyond
- 11 Thought Patterns and Explanatory Strategies in the Life Writing of High-Ranking GDR Party Officials after the Wende
- 12 “Ein reines Phantasieprodukt” or “Hostile Biography”? Günter de Bruyn’s Vierzig Jahre and the Stasi files
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- German Life Writing in the Twentieth Century , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010