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"Un drame interdit d'accès": Remembrance and the Prohibited Past in Barbara Honigmann's Generational Texts
Ist Teil von
The German quarterly, 2007-07, Vol.80 (3), p.369-390
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Discussions of Barbara Honigmann have repeatedly placed her work on the cusp of what is summarily called "German Jewish relations," hence framing it as exploring interstitial figurations of culture and identity positions. This article, by contrast, returns to a moment that has remained implicit, namely to the difficult Gespräch between two generations whose lives have been crossed, albeit differently, by the darkest hour for Jews living in Germany. Honigmann's autobiographically inspired first-person narrators, who grew up in the GDR before 1989, will comment again and again on how virtually no exchange between parents and children of Jewish background, however much desired by the latter, seems possible. Confronting the taboo on the past, therefore, necessitates a radical rethinking of genealogy as well as transgenerational remembrance and especially Gespräch, something Honigmann's texts provoke by way of rewriting Berlin in terms of a heterotopic spatiality (Foucault) through which the metropolis and the necropolis, specifically the cemetery space of Berlin-Weißensee, begin to contest the interdiction on the past.