Childhood pattern

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Childhood Pattern is a 1976 work by the German writer Christa Wolf . In this work , the author, who lived and worked in the GDR , describes in three interwoven temporal levels a childhood during the Hitler regime in Landsberg (Warthe) , the flight from there at the end of the war and an adult journey with her husband, brother and Daughter in the summer of 1971 from East Berlin to today's Gorzów Wielkopolski . The places are not named. Only the “place of birth” L. and the “travel destination” G. are mentioned when obtaining a visa. It is not told chronologically (linearly), instead the experiences of the past are visualized. The book has autobiographical features and deals with coming to terms with the past .

Philipp Ther wrote in 1998 in Critical Studies in History , Volume 127:

In the GDR, research on the flight and expulsion of Germans from 1944 to 1950 was completely taboo with regard to the Soviet Union and the socialist brother states. A pioneering violation of this taboo was Christa Wolf's novel Childhood Pattern, published in 1976. "

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  1. ^ Philipp Ther: German and Polish expellees. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, p. 50.