Lebenswege Und Lekturen: Osterreichische NS-Vertriebene in Den USA Und Kanada

ISBN-13: 9783484651302 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2000 / 358 str.

Müller-Kampel, Beatrix

Opis

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews, and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference - initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified in them.
From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers, determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

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Inhalt: Beatrix Müller-Kampel, Lebenswege und Lieblingslektüren österreichischer NS-Vertriebener in den USA und Kanada. - Interviews: Walter Herbert Sokel, ... das wäre der Tod. Und so erfand ich mir eine Person. - Peter Heller, Mit der Psychoanalyse in der rechten und dem Marxismus in der linken Hand. - Herbert Lederer, Mein kulturelles Erbe ist Wien. - Hans Eichner, Es sind die Menschen, die Heimat ausmachen. - Egon Schwarz, Ich wurde also ein Grenzgänger zwischen den Gebieten und Kontinenten. - Harry Zohn, Ich habe mir meine Muttersprache nicht vermiesen oder rauben lassen. - Dorrit Claire Cohn, Emigranten, alles Emigranten. - Ruth Klüger, Man lernt sich irgendwie ausbreiten in der eigenen Sprache. - Evelyn Torton Beck, Ich habe die ganze Sache irgendwie überlebt mit dem Lesen.

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Beatrix Müller-Kampel ist Professorin für Neuere Deutsche Literatur am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Graz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind u. a. : Theater des 18. Jahrhunderts, Themen- und Figurengeschichte, Literatursoziologie.