UID:
edocfu_9958355338502883
Format:
1 online resource(vi,352p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2000. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110935554
Series Statement:
Conditio Judaica; 30
Content:
What was the driving force that motivated Austrians driven out of their homeland after 1938 and seeking refuge in the United States and Canada to devote their professional lives to the cultivation of literature in German, thus becoming intermediaries re-tilling the intellectual subsoil of the 'perpetrator cultures' Germany and Austria in their new home? Alongside practical considerations it was certainly a love of literature, of Kafka, Rilke, Werfel, Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig and their literary worlds, all of which held out the prospect of regaining a finer, more humane homeland. Throughout, however, their suspicion of German literary studies (a discipline which as early as the 1920s had vigorously supported the dissemination of nationalist and national socialist cultural ideology at Germany's universities) remained very marked indeed. At the same time, the analytic re-acquisition of literature, philosophy and art was a way of rebelling against the enforced abandonment not only of murdered friends, slaughtered relatives and confiscated property but also everything which had started to represent a home from home culturally, intellectually and emotionally.
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Frontmatter --
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Inhaltsverzeichnis --
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Lebenswege und Lieblingslektüren österreichischer NS-Vertriebener in den USA und Kanada /
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Abkürzungsverzeichnis --
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...das wäre der Tod. Und so erfand ich mir eine Person /
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Mit der Psychoanalyse in der rechten und dem Marxismus in der linken Hand /
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Mein kulturelles Erbe ist Wien /
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Es sind die Menschen, die Heimat ausmachen /
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Ich wurde also ein Grenzgänger zwischen den Gebieten und Kontinenten /
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Ich habe mir meine Muttersprache nicht vermiesen oder rauben lassen /
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Emigranten, alles Emigranten... /
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Man lernt sich irgendwie ausbreiten in der eigenen Sprache /
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Ich habe die ganze Sache irgendwie überlebt mit dem Lesen /
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Personenregister.
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Also available in print edition.
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In German.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783484651302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111818351
Language:
German
DOI:
10.1515/9783110935554
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110935554
