W drodze do domu. Kultury pamięci przymusowej migracji Niemców po 1945 roku w kinematografiach niemieckich
On the Way Home. Cultures of Memory of the Forced Migration of Germans after 1945 in the Cinema of Both German States
Author(s): Andrzej GwóźdźSubject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: West and East German cinema; cultures of remembrance; strategies for representing displacement; media memory; forced migration.
Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issues of film representation of forced displacement of Germans from the eastern territories of Reich after 1945 in the context of cultures of media remembrance in German cinemas (of Allied occupation zones, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, and reunited Germany). The author indicates subordination of artistic strategies in particular films to current discourses of remembrance and promoted state formation models. He identifies a group of films made just after the war, which secured traces of migration memory; he points to the mechanisms of memory of resettlements in the GDR cinema (decreed anti-fascism) and narratives of expulsion in West German cinema (nostalgia for the lost homeland, columns of exiles); eventually, he draws attention to the work of memory which underlies the practices of remembrance.
Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
- Issue Year: 128/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 959-989
- Page Count: 31
- Language: Polish