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The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany
This is the most comprehensive account to date of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the institutions, organizations and people who controlled German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian details a media dictatorship-involving the persecution and control of writers, publishers and libraries, but also voluntary assimilation and pre-emptive self-censorship-that began almost immediately under the National Socialists, leading to authors' forced declarations of loyalty, literary propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given to Nazi regulation of the publishing industry and command over all forms of publication and dissemination, from the most presitigious publishing houses to the smallest municipal and school libraries. Barbian also shows that, although the Nazis censored books not in line with Party aims, many publishers and writers took advantage of loopholes in their system of control. Supporting his work with exhaustive research of original sources, Barbian describes a society in which everybody who was not openly opposed to it, participated in the system, whether as a writer, an editor, or even as an ordinary visitor to a library.
Information Hunters
The country of the mind must also attack -- Librarians and collectors go to war -- The wild scramble for documents -- Acquisitions on a Grand Scale -- Fugitive Records of War -- Book Burning-American Style -- Not a Library, but a Large Depot of Loot.
'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Germany
A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.
Goering’s Man in Paris
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art worldBruno Lohse (1911–2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler’s special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art collection; and staged twenty private exhibitions of stolen art in Paris’s Jeu de Paume museum during the war. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but back in the art dealing world, offering looted masterpieces to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home.Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse’s life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.
Gertrud Kolmar
Linda Marianiello here translates into English for the first time Dieter Kühn’s highly praised and definitive biography of one of Germany’s greatest poets, Gertrud Kolmar. Kolmar carried German-language poetry to new heights, speaking truth in a time when many poets collapsed in the face of increasing Nazi repression. Born Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner in Berlin in 1894, she completed her first collection, Poems, in 1917. She took her pen name, Kolmar, from the name of the town where her family originated. Kolmar’s third collection of poems appeared in 1938 but soon disappeared in the wake of the overall repression of Jewish authors. At the time, she served as secretary to her father, Lu...
The Arts in Nazi Germany
"Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945 ... This volume's essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National Socialism ..."--Cover.
Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy
The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that literature and print media can be manipulated and made into vehicles of mass deception. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy is the first comprehensive account of how the Fascists attempted to control Italy's literary production. Guido Bonsaver looks at how the country's major publishing houses and individual authors responded to the new cultural directives imposed by the Fascists. Throughout his study, Bonsaver uses rare and previously unexamined materials to shed light on important episodes in Italy's literary history, such as relationships between the regime and particular publishers, as well as individual cases invol...
Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany
An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
The Germanic Isle
An account of Nazi preoccupation with Britain as a role model, even during the war.
Engagement und esoterische Kommunikation unterm Hakenkreuz
Formen nicht-nationalsozialistischer, aber zensurrelevanter und deshalb camouflierter Publikationen werden in der Literaturwissenschaft seit geraumer Zeit unter dem terminologisierten Ausdruck ‚verdeckte Schreibweise‘ diskutiert. Bislang hat sich die Forschung vornehmlich auf die produktionsästhetische Seite und das textuelle Ergebnis auktorial intendierter ‚Verdeckung‘ konzentriert. Die vorliegende Studie erweitert das Untersuchungsfeld um konkrete Praktiken und Funktionen ‚aufdeckenden Lesens‘ und bietet ein hermeneutisches Modell zur Detektion und Analyse dissidenter Kommunikation, das erlaubt, nonkonforme Schreib-, Publikations- und Lesepraktiken als zusammengehöriges Repertoire kontextsensibler und historisch spezifischer Textumgangsformen zu erfassen. An den textsortenübergreifenden Erzeugnissen des sogenannten Hochland-Kreises, der sich um das gleichnamige katholische Kulturjournal formierte, wird schließlich die Komplexität nonkonformistischer literarischer Verständigung ganz konkret an einem Fallbeispiel diskutiert und reflektiert.
