"The legend that the satirist responded to Hitler's seizure of power with stunned silence is refuted in the final section of the book, 'Into the Third Reich', which highlights his analysis of 'creeping fascism' and of the swastika as the 'twisted cross' of politicised religiosity. His career culminated in Dritte Walpurgisnacht, an analysis of Nazi ideology that has proved enduringly influential."--Jacket.
The volume presents a unique cross-section of contemporary research in the broad field of migration and exile studies. Its particular focus is on the manner in which ideas, methodologies, scholarship and innovation, developed in German-speaking Europe, were transferred to Britain and the USA after 1933. The transformative effect of this exodus of talent upon the host cultures, and the corresponding impact of the host cultures upon the refugees, helped produce the groundbreaking work of German-speaking refugees in diverse areas. The essays include surveys of the contributions of exiles to academic disciplines and to art and design, and fresh examinations of the work of prominent refugees like Wittgenstein, as well as less well known figures such as Nina Rubinstein and Gaby Schreiber.
Probably the best-known Turkish poet of the twentieth century, Nazim Hikmet spent much of his life in prison or in exile because his Marxist beliefs. Now reissued with corrections and revisions, this was the first full-length biography of him to appear in any language.
Introduces English and American readers to an important and evolving field of historical and cultural studies through intellectual autobiography. This title documents the formative experiences of a scholar who was to become a pioneering teacher and researcher in the field of German culture and politics.
Following the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and the intensified persecution of the Jews, the British and American governments relaxed their restrictions on immigration and issued entry visas to tens of thousands of German-speaking refugees. The resulting exodus can be seen as the most significant cultural migration of modern times. For the majority of the refugees from National Socialism came from educated backgrounds, and they included some of the most gifted members of the cultural elite.The remarkable contributions made by refugees from Austria to the cultural life of the English-speaking world form the subject of this book, which reviews the achievements both of refugee organisations and of outstanding individual authors, including Stefan Zweig, Erich Fried, Hilde Spiel, Josef Fraenkel, Felix Pollak and Elias Canetti. Their commitment to the struggle against fascism, exemplified by the political cartoons of Joseph Otto Flatter, also provided an inspiration for the restoration of Austrian independence after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Suggesting that Freud's version of the history of psychoanalysis has triumphed by default, this book presents what aims to be a more balanced view, taking account of the ideas of his dissenting followers and forgotten adversaries.
A Democratic German Feminist’s Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism
How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed German political propaganda day by day, giving her critique a gendered focus by challenging the ethos of masculinity that sustained the Nazi regime. This pioneering study interprets her diaries, secretly written in twenty notebooks now preserved at the Stuttgart City Archive, as a fascinating source for the study of everyday life in the Third Reich. The opening sections sketch the paradigms that shaped Haag’s creativity, analysing the impact of the First World War and the feminist and pacifist commitments that influenced her literary and journalistic writings. Extensive quotations from the diaries are provided, with English translations, to illustrate her responses to the cataclysms that followed the rise of Hitler, from the military conquests and Jewish deportations to the devastation of strategic bombing. The book concludes with a chapter that traces the links between Haag’s critique of military tyranny and her contribution to post-war reconstruction.
Die Stuttgarter Demokratin und Feministin Anna Haag (1888–1982) führte während des Zweiten Weltkriegs ein geheimes Tagebuch, in dem sie die deutsche Propaganda Tag für Tag dekonstruierte. In seiner faszinierenden Studie macht Edward Timms Ausschnitte des zwanzig Bände umfassenden Tagebuchs zum ersten Mal einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich und liefert eine Analyse dieser zeitgenössischen Quelle zum Alltag im Dritten Reich. Der bedeutende englische Germanist und Kulturhistoriker beleuchtet die Grundsätze von Anna Haags Weltanschauung und ihren Werdegang: Sie verbrachte eine beschauliche Kindheit und Jugend in Baden-Württemberg und erlebte den Ersten Weltkrieg als junge Mutter in Budapest. Diese prägenden Erfahrungen ließ sie von Beginn an den Nationalsozialismus kritisch hinterfragen und ihr Kriegstagebuch beginnen. Timms setzt faszinierende Passagen aus Haags Tagebüchern in Zusammenhang zu Zitaten aus weiteren Kriegstagebüchern, von Sympathisantinnen wie Kritikerinnen, Zeitungsartikeln und Rundfunkbeiträgen. Seine Collage illustriert ein vielfältiges Meinungsbild der damaligen Gesellschaft. Anna Haags Kritik an der Nazi-Tyrannei und ihr Engagement in der SPD beim demokratischen Wiederaufbau nach dem Krieg sind maßgeblich dafür verantwortlich, dass im Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland das Recht zur Kriegsdienstverweigerung festgeschrieben steht.
