Einbruch – Aufbruch – Umbruch. Zu Hans Werner Richters Gesellschaftlich-politischen ,Suchaktionen‘

Communication is not just an exchange of information, but also a construction of information. The constructed meaning depends on context. In this way, this text includes not only the existentialistontological but also the aspect of function. Familiarity with history and the past is nowadays not left just to professional historians, and their monopoly of historical knowledge is questioned, not least because alternative forms of recollections and historical thinking are available: there are various forms, from historic texts through literature and art to traditional rituals, which evoke different memories. The writer Hans Werner Richter was searching for a German „third way“, „democratic socialism“, giving form to structures of the German collective existence.