Pasts renewed in new German graphic storytelling : The past re-told in: Flix: ”Da war mal was”; Nora Krug: ”Belonging”; Mawil: ”Kinderland”; Birgit Weyhe: ”Madgermanes” and ”Im Himmel ist Jahrmarkt”.

Narrations codify perspectives on the past. Individual narrations and opinions detail stages in that process and are part of the negotiation on the meaning of things. Comics contribute visual negotiations of the past and its artefacts. They primarily document how the past is re-told at that particular moment in time (i.e. their present). They codify generational and cultural perspectives (plural!) on the past in their narratives. They participate in negotiation of the ”floating gap of memory” (Assmann). Narratives about recent history are selectively institutionalised and documented / codified. With growing historic and biographical distance, situations, events, behaviours are re-evalued and re-told. Individual involvement in collective actions becomes re-evalued from focus on a person’s behaviour and responsibility to focusing on the collectives ethical state of mind and actions. BUT: ancestorial involvement can keep excusatory myths intact despite historic evidence against them. With growing biographical / historical distance it becomes easier to be judgemental on individual and collective responsibility: other narratives compete and complement the formation of identity and can limit dependence on particular older narratives if these are not considered crucial by involved individuals.