Carola Hilmes (Goethe-UniversitAt Frankfurt am Main)
Tendencies in modern autobiographical writing
I. "someone was then the other one"
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Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
II. Author's Identity in Doubt: Uwe Johnson's autobiographical writings
III. ,,transforming the mirror into a window": Ilse Aichinger's Reminiscences
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
Is he he when he does not know me.
This sometimes happens.
That is his not knowing me.
When it does not happen he sometimes tries to make it happen.
So is he he when he does not know me.
And when he does rot know me am I I.
But certainly this is not so although it really very truly is so.l
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writing in the form of a chronicle allows for placing disparate elements next to
each other, connecting them by parataxis.
There are seven levels of narration in Anniversaries:
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In New York, Gesine tells her daughter Marie about her youth in
Jerichoq this creates the comrnunicative frame of the narration.
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Accounts of Gesine's and Marie,s life in New york by the narrator.
Extracts from the New york Times, which is read daily by Gesine.
Gesine's letters andtelephone conversations.
conversations between Gesine and her "contractual partner,,, the narrator,
whom she calls "Comrade Writer,, or..Johnson,,.
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Film und Verhdngnis
Film und Verhingnis ii
Der Boden unrer unseren Fti8en 2I
A1t-Aussee, 1930 25
\Teihnachren 7927, 1937, 1941 27
Die Tochter des Germani sten, 7934 3l
Die Tochter des Kohlenhindlers, 1941 35
Die Tochter der Aitistin, 1942 40
Heinrich Sablik, Steuerberater, 1942 46
Apothekenbuchstelle, Schwarzenbe rgplatz
Der Kai,7944 i3
\(ien 1945, Kriegsende i6
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Vorbemerkung zum "Journal des Verschwindens..
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Einribung in Abschiede 73
Deutschlandbtlder 77
Friulein \ig{_eAgtahl 80
Fontanes Landschaft: Marianne Hoppe I5
Lya de Putti in der Hohlweggasse 89
"Street photographer's background" 93'."
Souverdnitlt der Llcherlichkeit 95
Eddie Constantine 98
Verhinderte Trlumer 100
,Bill Brandt visits the Bront6 country<< 103
Das Erinnerun[sbild 105
Die Farben des Erinnerns 108
Zweiin einem Boot
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..l Sessel frir die Ausgeschlossenen 113
Der Schneefall der Existenz 115
Entwurf einer Zukunft 119
\[o bleibt der zweite Schu8? 122
Kein Gliick ohne Verhdngnis 127
,'j Foto des Jahrhunderts 131
Die Beatles im herbstlichen \Wien 134
Die Stanzmaschine "Jugend"
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Strafienzrige des Lebens 143
Die Schienenlegerin - Calamity Jane 149
"Du kehrst morgen zuriick.. 153
"Boys peeping.,A Night in London... 157
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