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Abstract: »Sexual violence has been one of the most common forms of violence in armed conflicts since the earliest civilizations and is often associated with the concept of “silence”. The phenomenon was particularly widespread during the Second World War. Today, historical research focuses especially on acts of sexual violence committed by members of the Red Army against German women at the end of the war. In post-war Germany, however, the topic was discussed in public and discursive spheres only to a limited extent, which can be understood as the result of various forms of discursive regulation. As a consequence, different forms of “silence” emerged, influencing both post-war and contemporary German literary discourse. This thesis examines the mechanisms regulating the topic within German literary discourse as well as the influence of other discourses on German literary production. It also analyses the visibility of these discursive marginalisations on the linguistic, thematic and contextual levels of selected literary works from the post-war period and the present day.« (Source: Thesis)

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	1 Einleitung (p. 1)
	2 Sexuelle Gewalt und Krieg (p. 3)
	3 Historischer Kontext: Sexuelle Gewalt durch die Rote Armee am Kriegsende (p. 6)
		3.1 Verlauf (p. 6)
		3.2 Potentielle Ursachen (p. 7)
		3.3 Zahlen der Betroffenen (p. 9)
		3.4 Folgen (p. 10)
	4 Theoretischer Rahmen (p. 11)
		4.1 Diskurs und seine Regulierungen (p. 11)
		4.2 Diskurs und „Schweigen“ (p. 12)
		4.3 „Schweigen“ und Expression (p. 12)
	5 Analyse der Makroebene des literarischen Diskurses (p. 14)
		5.1 Begründung des „Schweigens“ (p. 14)
			5.1.1 Gründe politischer Diskurse (p. 15)
			5.1.2 Auseinandersetzung mit Taten der Wehrmacht (p. 16)
			5.1.3 Komplexer Opferstatus (p. 17)
			5.1.4 Gründe gesellschaftlicher Diskurse (p. 18)
		5.2 Entwicklung literarischer Thematisierung im Zeitverlauf (p. 20)
	6 Analyse der Mikroebene des literarischen Diskurses (p. 25)
		6.1 Leonie Biallas: Ich war Kriegsbeute. „Komm, Frau, raboti“ (2010) (p. 26)
		6.2 Gabi Köpp: Warum war ich bloß ein Mädchen? Das Trauma einer Flucht 1945 (2010) (p. 30)
		6.3 Anonyma: Eine Frau in Berlin. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945 (2003) (p. 36)
		6.4 Helene Bracht: Das Lieben danach (2025) (p. 43)
		6.5 Renate Meinhof: Das Tagebuch von Maria Meinhof. April 1945 bis März 1946 in Pommern – Eine Spurensuche (2005) (p. 46)
		6.6 Ulrike Draesner: Die Verwandelten (2023) (p. 50)
	7 Literarische Darstellbarkeitsmöglichkeiten in der Gegenwart (p. 55)
	8 Schlussbemerkungen (p. 57)
	9 Zusammenfassung (p. 60)
	Povzetek (p. 61)
	11 Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis (p. 72)
		11.1 Primärliteratur (p. 72)
		11.2 Sekundärliteratur (p. 72)
		11.3 Internetquellen (p. 77)

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