Marcel Beyer, Flughunde [The Karnau Tapes]

Hannelore G. Mundt (University of Wyoming)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1995

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

2009-09-11

In the 1990s a group of German writers, born in the 1950s and 1960s, gained fame with their novels about Germany’s infamous 20^th century past. In particular, Hanns-Josef Ortheil’s Abschied von den Kriegsteilnehmern [Goodbye to the War Participants, 1992], Jens Sparschuh’s Der Schneemensch [The Yeti, 1993], and Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde [The Karnau Tapes, 1995] stand out as prominent. These authors’ interest in the past came unexpectedly considering that unification in 1990 engendered a changing sense of German national identity, a step back to “normality” as a “whole” nation. The emergence of the new …

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Citation: Mundt, Hannelore G.. "Flughunde". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 September 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26985, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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