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Alfred Andersch
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Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile
In contrast to the sometimes overly generous treatment of German writers forced into exile by Hitler's fascist regime, Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile applies the strict aesthetic and historical standards of literary criticism, putting aside any special pleading for their anti-Nazi political views. This critical approach leads to two important conclusions: that the emigrant writers' sacrifices and opposition to Hitler's Germany, however courageous, were ultimately futile and that the literature they produced was largely an aesthetic failure, due in part to the very nature of the exile experience. Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile includes a brief description of literary life in the Third Reich, but then concentrates on the United States as the scene of the exile's greatest activity after the outbreak of World War II. Krispyn concludes that the exiles' failure to achieve their political and artistic aims constitutes an important political case history within the larger history of Nazi Germany. Artistic and intellectual activities seem powerless to oppose terror, and the turn of the creative mind to political ends seemingly undermines the aesthetic force of creation.
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States. Wagnleitner traces the intimate relationship between the political and economic reconstruction of a democratic Austria and the parallel process of cultural assimilation. Initially, U.S. cultural programs had been developed to impress Europeans with the achievements of American high culture. However, popular culture was more readily acce...
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2016/2017
Das Benn Forum erscheint in Verbindung mit der Gottfried Benn-Gesellschaft und veröffentlicht Aufsätze, Vorträge, Miszellen und Dokumente zu Benn und zur literarischen Moderne. Darüber hinaus gibt es einen ausführlichen Rezensionsteil, der speziell Neuerscheinungen zu Benn und seinem literarischen Umfeld im Blick hat. Eine umfassende, periodisch angelegte Personalbibliographie beschließt das im Zweijahresrhythmus erscheinende Benn Forum und informiert in einer systematischen Übersicht über neue Titel der Primär- und Sekundärliteratur zu Benn.
Amerika
Das 'Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten' in der westdeutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Nicht ungebrochen sind die Erfahrungen deutscher Literaten im US-amerikanischen Exil. Oskar Maria Graf findet seine Heimat in New York und bleibt doch ein bayerischer Schriftsteller, Ulrich Becher entdeckt die New Yorker Kneipen als spannungsreiche Lokalitäten, die Geschwister Mann feiern landesweite Erfolge und hadern mit den politischen Zuständen, als fruchtbar erweist sich Adornos Auseinandersetzung mit der Massenkultur. Wolfgang Koeppens Reiseerzähler beobachtet das Land unter magisch wechselnden Lichtverhältnissen. Eine große Entdeckung in ihrer Komplexität von Alterität und poetischer Vertrauthe...
Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) and the Reception of French Thought in the Federal Republic of Germany
This work is a reassessment of the long-term effects of the writing of Alfred Andersch, a prominent figure in the literary life of the post-war Federal Republic. Besides his novels and short stories, he is remembered as a talented journalist-broadcaster, and played a crucial role as a mediator of unknown foreign literature in the cultural vacuum left by the defeat of Socialism in Germany.
