Autobiographische Narration und das Ende der DDR: Subjektive Authentizitat bei Gunter de Bruyn, Monika Maron, Wulf Kirsten und Heiner Muller

The post-reunification autobiography has so far hardly been extensively examined and typed - a gap that this volume contributes to closing. The author offers an overview of the research history of literary autobiography, illuminates the cultural-political framework for East German writers before and after 1989 and presents four exemplary selected autobiographical projects against this background in terms of genre theory and contemporary history. The autobiographical works by Gunter de Bruyn, Monika Maron, Wulf Kirsten and Heiner Muller are analyzed, particularly with regard to the genre-constituting aspects of identity, authenticity, historicity and literarity.