Die Imagination von „Mitteleuropa“ als Südosteuropa Mental Mapping bei Danilo Kiš
Imagining “Central Europe” as Southeast Europe – Mental Mapping in the Work of Danilo Kiš

Summary/Abstract: When the renowned historian Karl Schlögel (2002) says that the center of Europe lies in the East, one could argue by referring to the South Slavic and Jewish author Danilo Kiš that the center in fact lies in the Southeast. With the help of the concept “Pannonia” (often also“Kakania”), which Kiš uses in many of his literary places and texts, I will analyze how Kiš creates a mental map of Central Europe as the center of European history (in his trilogy “Janiradi”, “Bašta Pepeo”, “Peščanik”). Since Ivo Andrić, Yugoslavia’s only Nobel laureate in literature, Miroslav Krleža, and other important South Slavic writers processed “Pannonia” as Central Europe in their texts, I will attempt an outlook on the meaning of the concept “Central Europe” for South Slavic writers in the 20th century.

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