„Wo die Idylle am gröβten ist, gibt es auch Sehnsucht“. Die polnischen Internierten in der Schweiz und deren Sehnsucht nach der Heimat
"Where the idyll is greatest, there is also longing". The Polish internees in Switzerland and their longing for their homeland

Summary/Abstract: Switzerland is often equated with an idyll, with a place on earth that one longs for. But after a more detailed analysis of the Swiss situation and its reflection in literature, one finds children who yearn for love from their parents, women who yearn for social recognition and equality and even Polish internees from the Second World War who long for their homeland, although it was no idyll. The article shows the longing of the Polish internees from the perspective of a Swiss writer and a Polish author. Two literary texts are examined: Katharina Zimmermann's novel Das Freudenkind (2003) and the text by Kornel Filipowicz Jeniec i dziewczyna (1965). I analyse the ways in which the two authors present the longing of Poles living in Switzerland for their homeland in confrontation with the Swiss idyll and how this longing influences the behavior of the protagonists.

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