Reversible novel
Wenderoman (or generally: Wendeliteratur) is a term used in feuilleton and occasionally in literary studies, which refers to literary forms that take up the theme of the peaceful revolution , the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification . The term is described both as a "wishful thinking that haunted literary criticism" and discussed as a serious requirement for literary professionals.
Works (selection)
- Kathrin Aehnlich : Everyone dies, including the paddlefish, 2007
- Katrin Askan : Off the hook, 2000
- Volker Braun : The Turning Neck, 1995
- Thomas Brussig : Heroes like us , 1995
- Thomas Brussig : As it shines , 2004
- Brigitte Burmeister : Under the name Norma, 1994
- Friedrich Christian Delius : The pears from Ribbeck , 1991
- Günter Grass : A Wide Field , 1995
- Jan Groh: Colón , 2001. Edition 2010 under the title Ostbrot .
- Jana Hensel : Zone Children, 2002
- Thomas Hettche : Nox, 1995
- Stefan Heym : Built on sand, 1990
- Kits Hilaire : Berlin Last Performance, Farewell to Kreuzberg , 1991
- Martin Jankowski : Rabet or The Disappearance of a Cardinal Direction , 1999
- Reinhard Jirgl : Farewell to the Enemies , 1995
- Jana Jürß : Peters Laube, 2010
- Yadé Kara : Selam Berlin, 2003
- Erich Loest : Nikolaikirche , 1995
- Monika Maron : Silent Line Six, 1991
- Clemens Meyer : When we were dreaming, 2006
- Nicki Pavlov : The Woman in the Matchbox, 2007
- Sven Regener : Mr. Lehmann , 2001
- Peter Richter : 89 / 90,2015
- Ingo Schulze : New Lives, 2005
- Ingo Schulze : Adam and Evelyn, 2008
- Jens Sparschuh : The indoor fountain, 1995
- Uwe Tellkamp : The Tower , 2008
- Uwe Timm : St. John's Night ( Wende novel ), 1996
- Ulrich Woelk : Second leg, 1993
literature
- Arne Born: Literary History of German Unity 1989–2000: Strangeness between East and West, Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2019.
- Elke Brüns: After the fall of the wall. A literary history of the dissolution of boundaries. Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006.
- Jörg Fröhling, Reinhild Meinel, Karl Riha (eds.): Wende literature. Bibliography and materials on the literature of German unity, 1999.
- Mirjam Gebauer: Crises of transition. The picaro in the German novel of the 1990s, 2006
- Frank Thomas Grub: "Wende" and "Unity" as reflected in German-language literature. A manual, 2003
- Heide Hollmer / Albert Meier: "How I got that with the wall". November 9, 1989 in Thomas Brussig's Heroes Like Us and in Thomas Hettches Nox. In: German Academy for Language and Poetry. Yearbook 1999. Darmstadt 2000, pp. 112-131.
- Text and criticism. Journal of Literature. Special volume IX / 2000: GDR literature of the nineties.
- Fabian Thomas: New Lives, New Writing? The "turning point" 1989/90 with Jana Hensel, Ingo Schulze and Christoph Hein, 2009
- Nico Lehmann: What does "Wenderoman" mean? Considerations based on Kathrin Aehnlich's novel Alle die Löffelstörre . In: Frank Hoffmann (ed.): "The experience of freedom". Contributions to a cultural history of the European revolution 1989/91, 2012
- Volker Wehdeking: German unity and the writers. Literary processing of the turning point since 1989, 1995.
- That. (Ed.): Mentality change in the German literature on unity (1990–2000), 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Ledanff: The search for the "Wenderoman" - on some aspects of the literary reactions to the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification in 1995 and 1996 ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Compare Arne Born (2019) Literary History of German Unity
Web links
- Online dossier on the subject of Wendel literature with introductory article and bibliography , Goethe-Institut
- Focus on the topic of "Wende" at literaturkritik.de (September 2009)
- The authors Christoph Hein and Ingo Schulze in the magazine Literaturen about "the autumn of 1989, the long wait for the novel and the meaning of literature"