The Mare of Majdanek. Intersections of History and Fiction in Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Lynn Wolff]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2004
Enthalten in:
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, 29/1(2004-09-04), 84-117
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Bernhard Schlink's novel Der Vorleser (1995; The Reader [1997]), won international attention and success, no doubt in part for its enthralling, intergenerational love story and its discussion of the particular questions facing and posed by >>die Nachgeborenen<<, the generation born after World War II. Even more notable, however, is Schlink's literary representation of the women who worked as guards in Nazi concentration and extermination camps, a group of women who have not been the focus of literary texts and are practically absent in historical or sociological research, especially in English-speaking sources. This essay provides a historical background to these women: their numbers, training, considerable power, and violent use of force, just to name a few aspects under consideration. In addition, a particular focus is placed on one such guard, Hermine Braunsteiner- Ryan, due to the similarities between this historical individual and Schlink's fictional character of Hanna Schmitz. The elucidation of the female guards' duties and responsibilities within the camps, moreover, calls into question the problem of illiteracy at the crux of Schlink's novel. 
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