ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the growing interest in political narratives, and offers one elaborated example to illustrate this discussion. While politics encompasses the broad spectrum of stories about power who has it; how it is shared or abused; the particular contexts which inform its various manifestations, national narratives are concerned with those negotiations which happen explicitly around questions of the nation. The chapter discusses the meaning and function of political narratives in the abstract. It offers a framework which will assist in making sense of political narratives which are 'at once so complex and so simple'. Weißhuhn describes to me in detail the geography of the corner of Berlin upon which his psychological transformation was played out. In order to make sense of what is being said, the reader must make the linkages between the micro and the macro narrative, between Weißhuhn's personal biography and momentous historical change.
