Tulla Pokriefke

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Tulla Pokriefke is a central figure in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk," depicted as a stubborn, nationalistic German woman whose life is deeply marked by the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and its lasting historical traumas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Crabwalk NERFINISHED
Im Krebsgang NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED
associatedWithShip MV Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme German victimhood discourse
intergenerational trauma
memory and forgetting
rise of neo-Nazism
centralCharacterIn Crabwalk NERFINISHED
characterTrait bitter
domineering
manipulative
resentful
stubborn
countryOfCitizenship Germany
creator Günter Grass NERFINISHED
ethnicIdentity German
fictionalBirthContext Free City of Danzig milieu
fictionalStatus survivor of a maritime disaster
firstPublicationOfWork 2002
fixatedOn German civilian suffering in World War II
gender female
grandmotherOf Konrad Pokriefke NERFINISHED
hasChild Paul Pokriefke NERFINISHED
ideologicalRole carrier of German expellee memory
influences Konrad Pokriefke NERFINISHED
languageOfWork German
linkedTo German expellees from the East
literaryGenreOfWork historical fiction
novella
mediumOfAppearance novella
motherOf Paul Pokriefke NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction embodiment of unresolved German wartime trauma
narrativeRole driving force of the plot
obsessedWith Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy NERFINISHED
politicalAttitude nationalistic
right-wing
pressures Paul Pokriefke NERFINISHED
relatedWorkBySameAuthor The Tin Drum NERFINISHED
survivorOf sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED
symbolizes difficulty of confronting Nazi past
persistence of nationalist narratives in postwar Germany
timePeriodOfFictionalLife 20th century
World War II and postwar Germany NERFINISHED
workAuthor Günter Grass NERFINISHED

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Crabwalk character Tulla Pokriefke