Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945

Published by Berghahn Books 2003

Flight of Fantasy

New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature 1933-1945

Edited by: Neil H. Donahue and Doris Kirchner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389651

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During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers have been hotly debated to this day. Though the reception of Inner Emigration has often been confounded by disputes over the term itself, the issue is ultimately not a matter of nomenclature, but of more far-reaching issues of literary evaluation, moral discernment and the writing of history. This volume presents, for the first time, to an English-speaking readership the complexity of Inner Emigration through the analysis of problematic individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise.

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Neil H. Donahue is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.

Doris Kirchner is Associate Professor of German at the University of Rhode Island.

Neil H. Donahue is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University.

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"This fine volume…exemplifies German scholarship at its best…It is a singular accomplishment. Although written by eighteen authors, the essays seem of a piece. They are uniformly well written, clear, insightful, and free of annoying jargon." · German Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION: “Coming to Terms” with the German Past Neil H. Donahue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Past of the Term
Chapter 1. INNER EMIGRATION The Term and Its Origins in Postwar Debates Stephen Brockmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Foundational Essays
Chapter 2. IN THE THICKET OF INNER EMIGRATION Reinhold Grimm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3. THE YOUNG GENERATION’S NON-NATIONAL SOCIALIST LITERATURE DURING THE THIRD REICH Hans Dieter Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
New Perspectives: Synoptic Studies
Chapter 4. CULTURE AS SIMULATION The Third Reich and Postmodernity Hans Dieter Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 5. TARGETING THE READER, ENTERING HISTORY ANew Epitaph for the Inner Emigration Frank Trommler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 6. ABSENCES OF TIME AND HISTORY Poetry of Inner Emigration Leonard Olschner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 7. DEPICTIONS OF THE STATE IN WORKS OF THE INNER EMIGRATION Colin Riordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 8. THE LIMITS ON LITERARY LIFE IN THE THIRD REICH Volker Dahm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
New Perspectives: Case Studies
Chapter 9. OPPOSITION OR OPPORTUNISM? Günter Eich’s Status as Inner Emigrant Glenn R. Cuomo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter 10. CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen’s Antifascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria Karl-Heinz Schoeps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Chapter 11. LUISE RINSER’S ESCAPE INTO INNER EMIGRATION Diana Orendi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 12. SURVIVAL WITHOUT COMPROMISE? Reconfiguring the Past in the Works of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch Rhys W. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 13. EXILE HONORIS CAUSA The Image of Erich Kästner among Writers in Exile Guy Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 14. GÜNTHER WEISENBORN’S BALLAD OF HIS LIFE Wulf Koepke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter 15. BETWEEN APOCALYPSE AND ARCADIA Horst Lange’s Visionary Imagination during the Third Reich Gerald Funk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Chapter 16. “I MOUNTED RESISTANCE, THOUGH I HID THE FACT” Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Early Biography David Basker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Chapter 17. ELISABETH LANGGÄSSER AND THE QUESTION OF INNER EMIGRATION Cathy S. Gelbin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The Turn Inward Outside of Literature
History
Chapter 18. THE UNSETTLING HISTORY OF GERMAN HISTORIANS IN THE THIRD REICH Amy R. Sims Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Film
Chapter 19. STATE OF THE ART AS ART OF THE NAZI STATE The Limits of Cinematic Resistance David Bathrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 332
Keywords: Literary Studies; History: World War II

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Published: December 1, 2003
ISBN: 9781782389651