Naděžda Heinrichová, Leona Stryková, Tereza Lepší
Eugen Ruge a příběh jeho rodiny
Číslo: 3/2021-2022
Periodikum: Cizí jazyky
Klíčová slova: German history, family novel, Eugen Ruge, totality
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Anotace:
The contribution reflects on the way how to deal with the past using the example of one
of the most elaborate family histories written from an East German writer‘s perspective
without arousing feelings of Ostalgia. Ruge‘s two novels In Times of Fading Light (2011)
and Metropol (2019) together with the original notes of his father, the recognized GDR
historian, Wolfgang Ruge, Gelobtes Land (2012; published after the natural death of Eugen
Ruge‘s father in the novel form) convey the enthusiasm, conviction, implementation and
the failure of German communism in the ´short 20th century´. This trip into the past shows
what preceded the decision to return and live in the GDR of members of the first and second
generations who survived the Soviet gulag, the subsequent exile in Siberia or the involuntary
exile in Mexico. Eugen Ruge in his debut novel In Times of Fading Light (2011) offers
an answer to what extent their decisions and experience affected the lives of future generations
after 1989, when the GDR ceased to be not only a country but also a political vision
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of the most elaborate family histories written from an East German writer‘s perspective
without arousing feelings of Ostalgia. Ruge‘s two novels In Times of Fading Light (2011)
and Metropol (2019) together with the original notes of his father, the recognized GDR
historian, Wolfgang Ruge, Gelobtes Land (2012; published after the natural death of Eugen
Ruge‘s father in the novel form) convey the enthusiasm, conviction, implementation and
the failure of German communism in the ´short 20th century´. This trip into the past shows
what preceded the decision to return and live in the GDR of members of the first and second
generations who survived the Soviet gulag, the subsequent exile in Siberia or the involuntary
exile in Mexico. Eugen Ruge in his debut novel In Times of Fading Light (2011) offers
an answer to what extent their decisions and experience affected the lives of future generations
after 1989, when the GDR ceased to be not only a country but also a political vision