Nazi characters in German propaganda and literature
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Nazi characters in German propaganda and literature
(Studia imagologica, v. 24)
Brill Rodopi, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Winner of the 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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.
Table of 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 Sunde wider das Blut
Hans F.K. Gunther'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
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 Judische 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
Representations of Nazi Characters in Exile Literature
Hermynia Zur Muhlen's Novel Unsere Toechter, die Nazinen
Klaus Mann's Roman a Clef Mephisto
Bertolt Brecht's Epic Drama Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches
Veza Canetti's Novel Die Schildkroeten
Anna Seghers's Narrative Der Ausflug der toten Madchen
3 The Problem of Nazi Identity and Representation after 1945
Processing Defeat
The Memoir of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess
Marta Hillers's Anonymous Memoir Eine Frau in Berlin
Ingeborg Bachmann's Wartime Diary Kriegstagebuch
Writing about Nazis-A Postwar Dilemma
Carl Zuckmayer's Drama Des Teufels General
Wolfgang Borchert's Play Drau en vor der Tur
Heinrich Boell's Narrative Der Zug war punktlich
Ilse Aichinger's Novel Die groe ere Hoffnung
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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