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Description

1. vii, 189 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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

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

Uniform title

1. Literature and the sciences of man ; vol. 7.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Authors, German > 20th century > Biography
3. Authors, Exiled > Germany > Biography
4. Authors, German > Foreign countries > Biography
5. National socialism and literature
6. Authors, German > 20th century > Political and social views
7. Autobiography
8. autobiography (genre)
9. Authors, Exiled
10. Authors, German
11. Authors, German > Political and social views
12. Drittes Reich
13. Intellektueller
14. Exil
15. Exilschriftsteller
16. Autobiografie
17. Deutsche
18. Autobiografieën
19. Emigranten
20. Emigrantenliteratuur
21. Duits
22. Exiles' writings, German > History and criticism
23. German literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
24. German literature > 20th century > History and criticism
25. Écrivains allemands > À l'étranger > Biographies
26. Écrivains allemands > 20e siècle > Biographies
27. Écrivains allemands > 20e siècle > Pensée politique et sociale
28. Écrivains exilés > Allemagne > Biographies
29. National-socialisme et littérature
30. Autobiographie
31. Écrivains allemands > Pensée politique et sociale
32. Écrivains allemands > 1900-1945 > Biographies
33. Ecrivains exilés > Allemagne > Biographies
34. Germany
35. Deutsche

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

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