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- Title
'You can't change names and feel the same': The Kindertransport Experience of Susi Bechhöfer in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz.
- Authors
Modlinger, Martin
- Abstract
Susi Bechhöfer had come to England on the Kindertransport on her third birthday, but this part of her past was erased by her foster parents. This theft of identity as well as its later rediscovery and a quest to find her real parents is taken up by German writer W. G. Sebald in his novel Austerlitz. Sebald, as this article demonstrates, used Bechhöfer's biography without her permission for nearly every important moment in his protagonist's life. This comparative approach to both texts seeks to locate Susi Bechhöfer's experience between Kindertransport history and Kindertransport fiction, and W. G. Sebald's novel between artful allusion and stolen story.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; AUSTERLITZ (Book : Sebald); BECHHOFER, Susi; SEBALD, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001; KINDERTRANSPORTS (Rescue operations); IDENTITY (Psychology); LITERARY ethics; FALSE personation; JEWISH refugees; RESCUE of Jews, 1939-1945; JEWS in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
- Publication
Yearbook of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, 2012, Vol 13, p219
- ISSN
1388-3720
- Publication type
Article