Anthem lyrics and collective memory in Central European context. A culture and text contrastive interpretational approach to Hoffmann von Fallersleben's Lied der Deutschen in literature classes teaching German as a foreign language
2012
Abstrakt
The paper uses the potential of European national anthems as texts of a 'collective memory' for literature classes in a foreign language. Using H.
A. Hoffmann von Fallersleben's 'Lied der Deutschen' (1841) it is shown how collective misinterpretations about the culture of a target language can be relativized by means of a text contrastive procedure.
For this reason, a comparison of the historical, political and psychological circumstances of the text genesis of the German and the Polish national anthem (J. Wybicki, 1797) is carried out.