Kilka słów o niemieckich podręcznikach i tradycjach pisania autobiograficznego – najciekawsze porady i inspiracje
A Guide on German Textbooks for Creative and Autobiographical Writing – Tips and Inspirations

Summary/Abstract: Currently a huge number of manuals on creative writing, especially autobiographical writing, isbeing published in Germany. Also very popular are literary autobiographies about family historiesconnected to the former GDR. The German manuals distinguish between the two most populartypes of autobiographical writing: writing as therapy (inspired by psychoanalytical thought) andwriting for literary purposes. Their techniques overlap more and more, inspire each other andthus bear the fruit of new methods to stimulate one’s creativity. Creative writing can be aimed atprivate purposes (f.e. to leave behind a symbolic legacy for one’s descendants) or can be aimed atthe public – the chosen method depends on the goal. The author of the text presents the manuals’most interesting advises on the motivation for writing, the best conditions for creative work,techniques of non-linear writing, the stimulation of private memories, narrative techniques andquestions of style and language. The author also points to the existential aspect of autobiographicalwriting – it deepens one’s experience of life.

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