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Ute Hirsekorn

Assistant Professor of German Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Research Summary

  • GDR studies
  • Life writing
  • Relationship between autobiographical memory and life writing
  • East German memory before and after German unification

Recent Publications

  • HIRSEKORN, UTE, 2012. Vom verblendeten Selbst zum gewendeten Selbst: Der Wandel in der narrativen Identität in den Selbstreflexionen Günter Schabowskis nach 1989. In: DAVID CLARK and AXEL GOODBODY, eds., The Self in Transition. East German Autobiographical Writing Before and After Unification: Essays in Honour of Dennis Tate Amsterdam/ New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • HIRSEKORN, UTE, 2010. Kontinuitäten und Brüche in den Lebensbeschreibungen von Angehörigen der Parteielite der DDR nach der Wende. In: HEINZ-PETER PREUSSER and HELMUT SCHMITZ, eds., Autobiografie und historische Krisenerfahrung Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 149-160
  • HIRSEKORN, U., 2010. Thought patterns and explanatory strategies in the life writing of high-ranking GDR party officials after the Wende. In: DAHLKE, B., TATE, D. and WOODS, R., eds., German life writing in the twentieth century Camden House. 179-195
  • HIRSEKORN, UTE, 2012. Vom verblendeten Selbst zum gewendeten Selbst: Der Wandel in der narrativen Identität in den Selbstreflexionen Günter Schabowskis nach 1989. In: DAVID CLARK and AXEL GOODBODY, eds., The Self in Transition. East German Autobiographical Writing Before and After Unification: Essays in Honour of Dennis Tate Amsterdam/ New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • HIRSEKORN, UTE, 2010. Kontinuitäten und Brüche in den Lebensbeschreibungen von Angehörigen der Parteielite der DDR nach der Wende. In: HEINZ-PETER PREUSSER and HELMUT SCHMITZ, eds., Autobiografie und historische Krisenerfahrung Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 149-160
  • HIRSEKORN, U., 2010. Thought patterns and explanatory strategies in the life writing of high-ranking GDR party officials after the Wende. In: DAHLKE, B., TATE, D. and WOODS, R., eds., German life writing in the twentieth century Camden House. 179-195

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