Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Marcel Beyer's novel Flughunde recounts the deaths of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' children through the eyes of two narrators: the eldest daughter, Helga, and a sound technician Hermann Karnau who had worked for Goebbels. Long after the children's deaths, the technician begins to recognise his own role in their murders at the hands of their mother. In his tightly constructed, poetically oblique novel, Beyer examines and questions not merely infamous historical personalities of the Third Reich but also the fortunes of those - both the innocent and the tainted - who suffered the consequences of crimes committed in their name and allegedly for the greater glory of their nation and race.
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Course text: Marcel Beyer, Flughunde, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 978-3-5183-9126-6.