Rethinking the Past with a New Narrative Strategy. Nora Krug's "Heimat. A German Family Album"

It is certainly not wrong, but awfully inadequate to be guided mainly by the subtitle of Nora Krug's "Heimat", which links the connotation of the work as "German" to the format of the "family album". "Heimat" is in fact also a graphic novel, which has the breath of a family atlas, made up of collages of drawings, photographs, and texts that are grafted unto each other to produce a composite reconstruction of the past through the experiences of its protagonists. Nora Krug's Work follows the precise plan of a personal anamnesis within past History. Nevertheless, the ethical-moral line of discourse far exceeds the boundaries of personal micro-history.