Bilder trotz allem? – Medialität und Erinnerung in Herta Müllers Text-Bild-Collagen
Images in spite of all? – Mediality and memory in the collages of Herta Müller

Author(s): Beate Sommerfeld
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Herta Müller; collages; mediality; memory; multimedial forms
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the collages of Herta Müller as an appropriate means of articulating traumatic experiences made under the regime of rumanian dictator Ceausescu. The own liminal position and the contingency of west-german print-media offer a space for poetological reflections and experiments. Müller develops a strategy of playfulness that allows to free traumatic experiences and initiates a process of healing memory. The collages also try to give an answer to the question, to what extent the terror experienced in the Past can be articulated across aesthetic forms.

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