In "Der Fluss und das Meer" (2023), a collection of short stories by Natascha Wodin, the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, the birthplace of the author’s mother, serves once again as the central focus. The waves of the Sea of Azov – «das flachste und wärmste Meer der Welt» (Wodin, Sie kam aus Mariupol, 2017, p. 12) – echo through space and time from Mariupol to the river Regnitz in Franconia. It was here where the young woman, deported to Germany as a forced labourer, committed suicide in 1956. The author consoles herself with the thought that the water of the Regnitz could one day flow through the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal into the Black Sea and into the Sea of Azov, symbolically offering her mother a ‘home’. The water thus becomes a means for transporting bodies and memories and the search for something akin to the German concept of Heimat is represented in the dramatic image of a body dissolving into water.
Senza casa. "Der Fluss und das Meer" di Natascha Wodin
L. Perrone Capano
2025-01-01
Abstract
In "Der Fluss und das Meer" (2023), a collection of short stories by Natascha Wodin, the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, the birthplace of the author’s mother, serves once again as the central focus. The waves of the Sea of Azov – «das flachste und wärmste Meer der Welt» (Wodin, Sie kam aus Mariupol, 2017, p. 12) – echo through space and time from Mariupol to the river Regnitz in Franconia. It was here where the young woman, deported to Germany as a forced labourer, committed suicide in 1956. The author consoles herself with the thought that the water of the Regnitz could one day flow through the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal into the Black Sea and into the Sea of Azov, symbolically offering her mother a ‘home’. The water thus becomes a means for transporting bodies and memories and the search for something akin to the German concept of Heimat is represented in the dramatic image of a body dissolving into water.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
