TY  - JOUR
A1  - Predoiu, Grazziella
T1  - Die Essayistik Herta Müllers
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - The article follows the two volumes of essays The King Bows and Kills (2003) and Always the same snow and always the same uncle (2011) written by Herta Müller. Politics and aesthetics define the Nobel laureate’s writing, with her essays anchored in Romania’s recent history. They are of a political nature, offer retrospectives on their life in Romania beyond the Iron Curtain, insights into the dictatorial past, persecution by the secret service, the betrayal of closest friends, but also contain reflections on the role of the language, the preference for Romanian, on the use of “The King” in their fictional texts, explain their “alien gaze”. Always the same snow and always the same uncle focuses on the deportation of the Romanian Germans to the Ukraine, with the information serving as a companion work to the novel Hunger angel. The betrayal of closest friends is also discussed, whereby the insight into their files and the past of Oskar Pastior/Otto Stein’s files are used.
KW  - committed writing
KW  - politics
KW  - dictatorship
KW  - deportation
KW  - trauma
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70791
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-707910
UR  - http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/48/Predoiu.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 48
SP  - 34
EP  - 49
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -