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Title

When Lucifer cometh : the autobiographical discourse of writers and intellectuals exiled during the Third Reich / Richard D. Critchfield.

Author

Critchfield, Richard, 1941-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, ©1994.

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Details

Description

vii, 189 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Ch. 7 (pp. 75-82) recounts the autobiographical story told by the actor and director Fritz Kortner in "Aller Tage Abend" (1969). As a child growing up in the Vienna of Karl Lueger, Kortner experienced fear of being the object of verbal and physical abuse because he was a Jew. As a young man he sought acceptance by the antisemitic world around him through athletics (soccer) and acting. But after the soccer games the taunts continued, and his antisemitic acting teacher criticized his "Jewish" appearance. After World War I Kortner became well known in Germany for his sympathetic depictions of Jewish figures in theater and film - e.g. Shylock and Dreyfus - for which he was vilified by antisemites and Nazis. He overcame his negative feelings about being a Jew as a refugee in America during the Nazi period and in his later journeys to Israel. After the war he returned to Germany where he worked as a theater director.

Series Statement

Literature and the sciences of man, 1040-7928 ; vol. 7

Uniform Title

Literature and the sciences of man ; vol. 7.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Authors, German > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, Exiled > Germany > Biography
• Authors, German > Foreign countries > Biography
• National socialism and literature
• Authors, German > 20th century > Political and social views
• Autobiography
• autobiography (genre)
• Authors, Exiled
• Authors, German
• Authors, German > Political and social views
• Drittes Reich
• Intellektueller
• Exil
• Exilschriftsteller
• Autobiografie
• Deutsche
• Autobiografieën
• Emigranten
• Emigrantenliteratuur
• Duits
• Exiles' writings, German > History and criticism
• German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
• German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Écrivains allemands > À l'étranger > Biographies
• Écrivains allemands > 20e siècle > Biographies
• Écrivains allemands > 20e siècle > Pensée politique et sociale
• Écrivains exilés > Allemagne > Biographies
• National-socialisme et littérature
• Autobiographie
• Écrivains allemands > Pensée politique et sociale
• Écrivains allemands > 1900-1945 > Biographies
• Ecrivains exilés > Allemagne > Biographies
• Germany
• Deutsche

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-186) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Spiritual and Political Conversions. 1. Alfred Doblin's Schicksalsreise. Bericht und Bekenntnis: Spiritual Crisis and Religious Conversion. 2. Gustav Regler's Das Ohr des Malchus: Political Crusade and Political Conversion in the Autobiography of a Renegade -- Excursus: History and Exile Autobiography -- pt. II. The Marginalization and Exaltation of Self and Individuality. 3. Heinrich Mann's Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt: Inscribing Historiography and Biography in the Autobiographical Text or the Marginality of Self and Individuality. 4. Ludwig Marcuse's Mein Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert: Combatting the Tyranny of Historiography or the Exaltation of Self and Individuality -- pt. III. Witness and Victim: The Autobiographical Text as Indictment. 5. Lion Feuchtwanger's Unholdes Frankreich: Discovering the Devil in France. 6. Hans Marchwitza's In Amerika: The Demon Capitalism and the Land of Limited Opportunities.

ISBN

• 0820423130
• 9780820423135

LCCN

93042551

OCLC

• ocm29359910
• 29359910
• SCSB-2036168

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library