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[Abstract = "After the turn of 1989 German society was possessed by a memorial discourse devoted to the heritage national socialism, WWII, German victims of forced eviction, bombing of the cities. In the last years a high popularity of generational novels can be noticed where main focus is put on the cross-generation reference to the past. A traditional middle-class family functions here as a meaningful cultural and social space where a memorial discourse is taken care of, and passed over to the next generations. The family ties become mental ties that guarantee the connection with the difficult history. In the contemporary generational novels the generation gap conflict is often based on silence, or the secrets of fathers and grandfathers. The counterbalance for the men’s silence is the picture of the war suffering of German people solidified and transferred to the next generations by mothers and grandmothers. This is only the post-war, third generation of the grandchildren that behaves in a post-memorial and post-national manner and will be free from traditional obligations and prohibitions."]