Wroclaw is one of the largest urban centers of the Western and Northern Territories - areas attached to Poland in 1945. The politically imposed context of the birth of Wroclaw made it impossible for the next generations of inhabitants to get to know and understand the cultural landscape of the city which was alien to their civilization and ideology. As a consequence, Wroclaw became a ghost town for many decades - the German heritage that defined it did not exist in the public or colloquial discourse. After 1989, the heritage of Breslau began to be present in the discourse of the elites. It was assumed that Wroclaw "has already been conquered" and that the inhabitants know and accept the city's pre-war heritage - because they were born there and lived in it.
In my research work, I am interested in the construction of that German heritage of the pre-war city in the common discourse of contemporary Wroclaw residents. The starting point for the analyses presented during the speech is the title issue (and at the same time one of the questions asked during the interview) - "what does post-German mean?". I will present and compare the narrative patterns used by representatives of two generations of Wroclaw residents to answer this question.
I base my analyses on the research material I have collected - these are 30 in-depth interviews conducted in the years 2018-2019 with the second (born in the 1950s and 1960s) and the third (born in the 1970s and 1980s) generation of the inhabitants of Wroclaw.
