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"Gesamtkunstwerk" Dresden: Official Urban Discourse and Durs Grünbein's Poetic Critique
Ist Teil von
The German quarterly, 2007-09, Vol.80 (4), p.492-510
Ort / Verlag
American Association of Teachers of German
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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Wiley Online Library Database Model
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Dresden's significance after Germany's reunification is established in this article by juxtaposing the city's self-representation with the poetry of Durs Grünbein. Officially, the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche serves as the metonymic sign of Dresden's vision of restored aesthetic totality. This self-image employs the Wagnerian concept of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" to legitimize its desire for a redemptive recovery from traumatic historical legacies. By contrast, Grünbein's post-reunification texts conceptualize Dresden as an unreal spectacle and irreparably ruined work of art, where unredeemable traces of the ruined past preclude nostalgic desires while forcing the remembering poet to reflect upon his own historical belatedness. Together, collective city discourse and individual poetic voice provide a conceptualization of Dresden that cannot be integrated into a seamless narrative. Instead, these heterogeneous voices alert the reader to the problem of functionalizing the traumatic past for Dresden's aspirations as a cultural metropolis in Eastern Germany and the New Europe.