TY  - JOUR
A1  - Miclea, Rodica-Ofelia
T1  - Salzburg – ein Topos und seine Symbolik in "Ascheregen" von Joachim Wittstock
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - In his 1985 published volume “Rain of ashes” the writer Joachim Wittstock presents on parallel levels the tragic destinies of young men, belonging to different ethnic groups from Romania, during the Second World War. The main theme of the collection of stories is the question of guilt and redemption, a question that is being asked obsessivly by all protagonists in the last chapter. The self analysis and confession of the heroes take place in Salzburg, a bathing resort with salt lakes close to Sibiu. The essay focuses on the symbolic value and dimension of the place and its surroundings, which become by means of poetic transposition the gate to the underworld/otherworld, where the souls of the dead soldiers come together, trying to find an explanation and a sense for the terrible suffering and the mutilation of lives caused by the war.
KW  - The Second World War
KW  - war generation
KW  - guilt and atonemen
KW  - sense and nonsense of war
KW  - Salzburg – gateway to the underworld
KW  - reformation and redemption
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65341
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-653417
UR  - http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/25.1.6.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 25
SP  - 131
EP  - 143
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -