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Lydia Haider, is a young Austrian writer, whose work is in line with two tendencies characteristic for Austrian Literature. Haider describes Austrian province from a position of critical distance, focusing on the critique of language and attempts to thematize the lack of reckoning with national socialist past in specific Austrian contexts. The article analyses two novels by Haider: congregation and rotten. The novels foreground the discussion on the denial of the Nazi crimes on the lands surrounding Mauthausen Concentration Camp. The main question posed in the article is whether Haider could be called a inheritor of the critical “Heimatliteratur”. It is also important to investigate whether the young author offers new aesthetic solutions, adequate for contemporary perspective from which we can view the unsettled Nazi past.
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Lydia Haider ist eine junge Autorin, die zwei Tendenzen der österreichischen Literatur miteinander verbindet. Sie setzt sich kritisch mit der österreichischen Provinz auseinander – wobei auch die Sprachkritik eine relevante Rolle spielt – und sie versucht, die Vergangenheitsbewältigung an spezifisch österreichische Themen zu koppeln. Der Artikel analysiert zwei Romane von Haider: kongregation und rotten. Im Vordergrund der beiden Werke steht die Verdrängung der NS-Verbrechen in den das Konzentrationslager Mauthausen umliegenden Dörfern. Gefragt wird sowohl nach der oben angesprochenen ‚Tradition‘ der kritischen Heimatliteratur, in die sich Haider einschreibt, sowie nach ästhetischen Lösungen, die sie vorschlägt.
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During the archival study of the rich legacy of Prof. Józef Kostrzewski carried out by the author, a ready-to-be-published manuscript by Kazimierz Gelinek (1946) in Polish and English was found. It describes his archaeological activities 1940-45 as a prisoner at Mauthausen-Gusen, one of the most severe German Nazi concentration camps. Gelinek, a geographer and pre-war grammar school teacher with extensive archaeological field and museum practice in the Płock region, was ordered by the camp commanders first to form the excavation brigade of prisoners in order to examine several sites in the vicinity of the camp (the archaeologically rich region of Upper Danube valley), then to organize a small archaeological museum in one of the camp barracks and finally – to prepare a monograph of the excavated area that was handed to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS and Gestapo and an enthusiastic amateur of archaeology, during his visit.
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