TY  - GEN
A1  - Nijdam, Elizabeth
T1  - Stasi, sex and soundtracks: Thomas Brussig's Postalgie
N2  - Since the fall of the Wall, a new era of East German literature has emerged. This genre of literature exists even though East Germany’s borders dissolved over a decade and half ago and is challenging the way we think about the former German Democratic Republic. East German author Thomas Brussig is pivotal in this new genre of literature. His novels Helden wie wir (1995), Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (1999) and Leander Haußmann’s cinematic adaptation, Sonnenallee (1999), confront the negative associations and stereotypes connected with East Germany to deconstruct how formal history has portrayed its past and its citizens. Brussig’s texts take a completely different approach to remembering the GDR, which simultaneously challenges history’s dominant perspective as well as the Ostalgie phenomenon. Through his texts’ recollection, Brussig subverts the East German state in hindsight and begins the construction of a new mythology with which to associate former East Germany.
KW  - Brussig, Thomas
KW  - Ostalgie
KW  - Postalgie
KW  - Deutsche Literatur
KW  - Deutscher Film
KW  - Sonnenallee
KW  - Helden wie wir
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33006
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-330061
UR  - http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/handle/1828/182
N1  - Die folgenden Lizenzbestimmungen sind mit dieser Ressource verbunden: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
N1  - Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2007.
EP  - 158 S.
ER  -