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Friedhof als Ort der Freiheit, der Erlösung und der Hoffnung. Überlegungen zu ausgewählten Werken von Ruth Hoffmann und Heinz Piontek

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Mańczyk-Krygiel M.

Orbis Linguarum

2019

issue 53

79-89

These considerations refer to the images and symbolic functions of the cemetery in the urban space and in the intimate experience of the individual. The analysis of two short stories by Ruth Hoffmann (Lüge/The Lie) and Heinz Piontek (Bäume im Wind/The Trees in the Wind) was inspired by geopoetics as a research orientation which consider the interaction and mutual influence of literary works and geographical region. In both stories, the cemetery is a peculiar and significant landmark in urban space, where wandering takes the heroines back. It allows them to face psychological traumas, and, consequently, experience catharsis or inner change. A place per se dedicated to death becomes for both elderly women a place of hope and a symbol of new beginning.

Zwischen den Welten. Zur Präsenz des alpinen Mythos von den Saligen bei Paula Grogger

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Mańczyk-Krygiel M., Mańczyk-Krygiel M.

Orbis Linguarum

2018

issue 50

401-414

Among worlds. Alpine mountain nymphs called Salige in the works of Paula Grogger The subject of this article concerns the images of alpine nymphs popular in Alpine mythology and called Salige in selected works by the Austrian writer Paula Grogger (1892–1984): in the legend Das salige Kind (1929) and in the novel Das Grimmingtor (1926). In alpine stories these nymphs are the guardians of mountain nature and the embodiment of the pre-Christian Great Goddess. In the works discussed here, the real world permeates with the metaphysical world: the first presents the attempt of the peaceful coexistence of the nymph and the people, and the second emphasizes its role as a guide into the underworld. The analysis was inspired by the theory of landscape mythology, which combines historical and archaeological facts, with a description of the folklore of the area, stories and solemnities, local names and lay of the land in order to obtain the most comprehensive analysis of cultural texts.

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Friedhof als Ort der Freiheit, der Erlösung und der Hoffnung. Überlegungen zu ausgewählten Werken von Ruth Hoffmann und Heinz Piontek

Zwischen den Welten. Zur Präsenz des alpinen Mythos von den Saligen bei Paula Grogger