In this article I analyse three narrative interviews that belong to the corpus Flucht und Emigration nach Großbritannien (“Flight and Emigration to Great Britain”), a collection of interviews gathered in 2017 with former Kindertransportees, i.e. Jewish children between 4 and 16 years old accepted as migrants in Great Britain (cfr. Thüne 2019). In these interviews, the speakers were invited to give their individual accounts of their journeys from Nazi-Germany or Austria to Great Britain, with a special fo- cus on how they perceived the crossing of the border. The aim of the article is to analyse examples from these interviews in a close reading that – where possible – makes use of Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope. I focus on three aspects: 1) how they perceived the border crossing and what they remember of the journey in 1939 in general; 2) what type of text they produced (more a narration or closer to a report in style); 3) what these examples allow us to conclude about the relation between individual records on the one hand and collective and cultural memory on the other.

Thune (2023). Kinder an der Grenze. Narrative Rekonstruktion von Reiseetappen des Kindertransports. ANNALI - ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE. SEZIONE GERMANICA, 33, 151-176.

Kinder an der Grenze. Narrative Rekonstruktion von Reiseetappen des Kindertransports

Thune
2023

Abstract

In this article I analyse three narrative interviews that belong to the corpus Flucht und Emigration nach Großbritannien (“Flight and Emigration to Great Britain”), a collection of interviews gathered in 2017 with former Kindertransportees, i.e. Jewish children between 4 and 16 years old accepted as migrants in Great Britain (cfr. Thüne 2019). In these interviews, the speakers were invited to give their individual accounts of their journeys from Nazi-Germany or Austria to Great Britain, with a special fo- cus on how they perceived the crossing of the border. The aim of the article is to analyse examples from these interviews in a close reading that – where possible – makes use of Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope. I focus on three aspects: 1) how they perceived the border crossing and what they remember of the journey in 1939 in general; 2) what type of text they produced (more a narration or closer to a report in style); 3) what these examples allow us to conclude about the relation between individual records on the one hand and collective and cultural memory on the other.
2023
Thune (2023). Kinder an der Grenze. Narrative Rekonstruktion von Reiseetappen des Kindertransports. ANNALI - ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE. SEZIONE GERMANICA, 33, 151-176.
Thune
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
germanica_33_2023_thune.pdf

accesso aperto

Descrizione: Articolo Thune nella rivista Germanica; 33, 2023
Tipo: Versione (PDF) editoriale
Licenza: Licenza per Accesso Aperto. Creative Commons Attribuzione (CCBY)
Dimensione 828.03 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
828.03 kB Adobe PDF Visualizza/Apri

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11585/955355
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact