East Prussia – About What Was and No Longer Is. Travel and Travelogue as a Bridge between Past and Present Cover Image

Ostpreußen – von dem, was war und nicht mehr ist. Reise und Reisebericht als Brückenschlag zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
East Prussia – About What Was and No Longer Is. Travel and Travelogue as a Bridge between Past and Present

Author(s): Anna Górajek
Subject(s): Cultural history, German Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: journey; travelogue; Warmia and Masuria; East Prussia; lost country; memory;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to an analysis of the travel reportages of German authors, which were written as a result of contemporary journeys to north-eastern Poland. The aim is to examine to what extent a journey to Poland, to the regions of Warmia and Masuria, is at the same time a journey to the lost landscapes of East Prussia, to what extent the past is present in the travel reports, and to what extent the travel reports evoke and revive what has disappeared.

  • Issue Year: 48/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 19-29
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: German
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