Thomas Brussig, Helden wie wir [Heroes Like Us]

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The Eastern German author Thomas Brussig (b. 1965) wrote

Helden wie wir

(

Heroes Like Us

) as a response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent unification of Germany in 1989/90.

Helden wie wir

belongs to a postwall Eastern German cultural trend consisting of humorous and satirical texts in all genres and audiovisual media. In his first three novels,

Wasserfarben

(

Watercolors

, 1991),

Helden wie wir

(1995/English ed. 1997), and

Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee

(

On the Shorter End of Sunny Street

, 1999), Brussig adopted adolescent male protagonists and narratives based on German and American literary models.

Helden wie wir

bears a superficial resemblance to Günter Grass’s

The Tin Drum

(1959) in presenting an idiosyncratic, picaresque antihero who reflects on his past life while…

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Citation: Twark, Jill E.. "Helden wie wir". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 January 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24691, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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