13. Under the horse’s tail

Fig. 16 Theaterplatz in Dresden. Photo by author, CC BY-SA 4.0. My real subject in this chapter is ‘lieux de mémoire’, ‘Erinnerungsorte’, ‘loci memoriae’ or ‘places of memory’. I shall be looking at three examples in a German context and will be examining them as they affect the national memory and its myths, but also the way the nation viewed its national poets and the emergent canon that served to galvanize national cultural aspirations. If we look at the ‘Urtext’ of this cult of memory, P.