Narrated Migration : Memories of the Post-War Forced Migration of German-speaking Inhabitants from the Czech Lands
2022
Abstract
The study focuses on the forced displacement of the German population from the Czech lands between May 1945 and the end of 1946. In this study, we draw on oral history interviews with the so-called 'Erlebnisgeneration', i.e. persons who experienced forced displacement as children or young adults.
The object of the analysis are narratives related to forced displacement; we ask in what ways this migration is narrated, what narrative strategies and means individual narrators choose when they talk about this event, and whether they create certain narrative patterns.