BERLIN AS AN ARTISTIC IMAGE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE UNITED GERMANY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the actual problem of research on German identity. The characteristic features of the German nation in the historical context are distinguished and described on the basis of the analysis of the artistic image of Berlin in the literature of the United Germany of the XX-XXI centuries. Berlin is the epicenter of European history of the XX century. The writers extrapolate changes in the artistic image of the city to the image of the whole nation and use a wide range of approaches. The article focuses on the study of the image of the Berlin wall as an element associated with the division of Germany. Each new historical stage is a new round in the disclosure of the image of Berlin. Answering the question “What is Berlin like?”, you can try to find the answer to the question “What is the German identity”.