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This study attempts to determine what methodological approach is suitable for studying speeches about Germanness that were written in Germany in the 1980s. The corpus of the speeches was chosen to cover multiple areas and disciplines. It includes literary, political and historiographical speeches authored by G. Grass ('Geschenkte Freiheit'), M. Walser ('Über Deutschland reden'), R. von Weizsäcker ('Der 8. Mai 1945'), E. Nolte ('Vergangenheit, die nicht vergehen will') and H. Lübbe ('Der Nationalsozialismus im Bewußtsein der deutschen Gegenwart'). The study illustrates the limitations of the ideological and purely disciplinary methodological approach. Instead it seeks a starting point for an analysis which proceeds in an intertextual and interdisciplinary manner.