TY - JOUR A1 - Görbert, Johannes T1 - Erinnerung an die Zukunft T1 - Remembering the Future BT - Der Pazifische Ozean als Herausforderung für die europäische Moderne – am Beispiel ›transpazifischer‹ Texte von Egon Erwin Kisch, Vicki Baum und Alfred Döblin (1933-1946) BT - The Pacific Ocean as a Challenge to European Mo-dernity – the Example of ›Transpacific‹ Texts by Egon Erwin Kisch, Vicki Baum and Alfred Döblin (1933-1946) JF - Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik N2 - The following article investigates assessments of the Pacific Ocean as the ›sea of the future‹, following a Mediterranean past and an Atlantic present, and standing in a stark contrast to the ›exotic‹, marginalised view of its islands and shores. It analyses three German-language texts from the era of the Second World War: Egon Erwin Kisch’s travelogue Secret China (China geheim, 1933), Vicki Baum’s Hotel Shanghai (1939), and Alfred Döblin’s short expository text The Golden Gate (Das Goldene Tor, 1946). Despite the many variations in their portrayals of wars and crises, migrations and acculturations, breakdowns and new beginnings around the Pacific Ocean, all three authors evaluate the challenge posed by the transpacific triangle evolving around China, Japan, and the US to Europe’s self-postulated role as a leading continent. In that vein, they are (re-)activating a specific lieu de mémoire of a Pacific future in world affairs, in hopes of heightening transcultural self-understanding and self-positioning in times of crisis. KW - Baum, Vicki (1888-1960) KW - Döblin, Alfred (1878-1957) KW - Kisch, Egon Erwin (1885-1948) KW - lieux de mémoire KW - Pacific Ocean Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-14082 SN - 2198-0330 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 115 EP - 128 ER -