Die Nachkriegskinder beginnen ihre Memoiren zu schreiben. Karl-Markus Gauß’ Das Erste, was ich sah und Friedrich Brandls Ziegelgassler und Glock’n’Roll

The theme of Friedrich Brandl’s books Ziegelgassler. Eine Kindheit nach dem Krieg and Glock’n’Roll. Eine Jugend im Schatten der Martinskirche as well as Karl-Markus Gauß’s Das Erste, was ich sah and the in many aspects autobigraphical novel Folgen by Ludwig laher represent the return into the authors’ childhood, it means into 1950s and the first half of 1960s. The author of the article compares these memories with his own remembrances and in spite of different geographical and political spaces (Bavaria – Austria – Czechoslovakia) he found surprising correspondences in the way of life in that time and also in the initial low standard of living and how it began to change at the beginning of the sixties. These correspondences are firstly ontogenetic and secondly time specific – the building of states after the war and their transition from consequences of war economy to an individual consume oriented economy (as well in the socialistic Czechoslovakia).