Format:
1 Online-Ressource (176 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004365261
Series Statement:
Studia imagologica Band 24
Content:
Stereotypical characters that promoted the Nazi worldview were repurposed by antifascist authors in Weimar Germany, argues Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. This is the first book to trace Nazi characters through the German and Austrian literature. Until the defeat of the Third Reich, pro-Nazi literature was widely distributed. However, after the war, Nazi publications were suppressed or even banned, and new writers began to dominate the market alongside exile and resistance authors. The fact that Nazi figures remained consistent suggests that, rather than representing real people, they functioned as ideological signifiers. Recent literature and films set in the Nazi era show that "the Nazis", ambiguous characters with a sinister appeal, live on as an established trope in the cultural imagination.
Content:
Critical Responses to the Nazi Typology Hans Reimann's and Hugo Bettauer's Political Satires; Joseph Roth's Society Novel Das Spinnennetz; Gertrud Kolmar's Novella Die Jüdische Mutter; 2 Contested Nazi Characters; Literature Exploring the Turning Point of 1932/3 through Nazi Figures; Lion Feuchtwanger's Family Saga Die Geschwister Oppenheim; Ferdinand Bruckner's Drama Die Rassen; Friedrich Wolf's Drama Professor Mamlock; Transfigured Germans. Leni Riefenstahl's Celebration of the National Community in the Propaganda Film Triumph des Willens
Content:
Intro; Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Origins and Conceptualization of Nazi Figures after the First World War; The Utopian Typology of a Nazi State and Its Citizens; The Program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party; Artur Dinter's Anti-Semitic Novel Die Sünde wider das Blut; Hans F.K. Günther's Racial Theory in Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes; Adolf Hitler's Autobiographical Manifesto Mein Kampf; Alfred Rosenberg's Racialized Cultural History Der Mythus des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts
Content:
Representations of Nazi Characters in Exile LiteratureHermynia Zur Mühlen's Novel Unsere Töchter, die Nazinen; Klaus Mann's Roman á Clef Mephisto; Bertolt Brecht's Epic Drama Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches; Veza Canetti's Novel Die Schildkröten; Anna Seghers's Narrative Der Ausflug der toten Mädchen; 3 The Problem of Nazi Identity and Representation after 1945; Processing Defeat; The Memoir of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höß; Marta Hillers's Anonymous Memoir Eine Frau in Berlin; Ingeborg Bachmann's Wartime Diary Kriegstagebuch; Writing about Nazis-A Postwar Dilemma
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004365254
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lorenz, Dagmar C. G., 1948 - Nazi characters in German propaganda and literature Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2018 ISBN 9789004365254
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Propaganda
;
Rezeption
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Identität
;
Stereotypisierung
;
Geschichte 1918-2000
DOI:
10.1163/9789004365261
Author information:
Lorenz, Dagmar C. G. 1948-
