Tagebuch und autobiografie

Autor(en)

Sabine Grenz

Abstrakt

Research of ego documents from the Second World War written by non-persecuted Germans have so far prioritised letters and diaries written by men, especially soldiers at the front. However, as ample research on gender and National Socialism proves, also civilian women were involved in the war (e. g. sowing clothes) and potentially supported it. In this article I will focus on the diary and later written autobiographies of an active women member of the NSDAP that is written in form of letters to her husband who was missed as a soldier. In her diary she creates an identity (and memory) in line with the party's gender construction. However, in her later biographies written in other social contexts, she leaves out her affirmative attitudes and creates an identity in line with the universal figure of the war widow. Thus, her diary allows insights in memory shifts.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Journal

Feministische Studien

Band

33

Seiten

212-228

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

0723-5186

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1515/fs-2015-0204

Publikationsdatum

11-2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Gender studies, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/b428b917-053a-4db0-9634-781620680b6a