Heimat

This dissertation explores the memory of postwar German-speaking refugees in Austria through an analysis of diverse media, cultural practices, and their reception. Part I of the dissertation examines postwar memorials and their reception in newspapers, as well as the role of pil…

The German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come into its ‘own’ only when it threatens to become ‘other,’ that is, only when it is poised in opposition to the unprecedented threat of alienation and fragmentation brou…