Home „am Phantasma“: Deictic Imaginations of Lost and Hoped-for Lifeworlds of German-speaking Jews Forced to Emigrate (B06)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

Based on corpora of narrative interviews, the project examines how forced emigration shapes the way in which the „Jeckes“ who fled to Palestine in the 1930s talk about home, language and belonging. Escaping to the only non-diasporic country could mean a reversal of the concepts home and exile, it could be imagined and practiced as a form of homecoming. The aim of the subproject is to describe and systematize deictic practices that perform dynamic shifts between lost and current lifeworlds, between spaces of perception and imagination in the emergent narratives. The focus is on the deictic dimensions of space, time and person.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1671: Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Anja Stukenbrock