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<p>The Black Church, the largest sacral building in Transylvania, has been given a central role in the local identity narratives. As a historical place of remembrance, it mediates and mobilizes elements of historical knowledge, and at the same time constructs a myth.The article examines how the Black Church in Brasov, one of the most important symbols of the Transylvanian Saxons, is poetically constructed as a place of cultural memory in the German, Romanian and Hungarian poems of the interwar period, how the concrete place is reinterpreted as a space for creating identity, while the ethnic dimension should not be ignored. It examines the question of what symbolic value it has for the German, Romanian and Hungarian populations and how this can be seen from the lyrical texts of the time.</p>
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The Black Church, the largest sacral building in Transylvania, has been given a central role in the local identity narratives. As a historical place of remembrance, it mediates and mobilizes elements of historical knowledge, and at the same time constructs a myth.The article examines how the Black Church in Brasov, one of the most important symbols of the Transylvanian Saxons, is poetically constructed as a place of cultural memory in the German, Romanian and Hungarian poems of the interwar period, how the concrete place is reinterpreted as a space for creating identity, while the ethnic dimension should not be ignored. It examines the question of what symbolic value it has for the German, Romanian and Hungarian populations and how this can be seen from the lyrical texts of the time.

Die Schwarze Kirche als Topos der kollektiven Identitätskonstruktion in der deutschen, rumänischen und ungarischen Lyrik der Zwischenkriegszeit

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The Black Church, the largest sacral building in Transylvania, has been given a central role in the local identity narratives. As a historical place of...

Die Schwarze Kirche als Topos der kollektiven Identitätskonstruktion in der deutschen, rumänischen und ungarischen Lyrik der Zwischenkriegszeit

Publié en ligne: 18 juil. 2019

Pages: 103 - 117

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2019-0006

© 2019 Réka Jakabházi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.