Comrades, Friends and Companions. Utopian Projections and Social Action in German Literature for Young People 1926-1934
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11637330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fritz H König, Luke Springman (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 643-643 |
| Publication date | 1991-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7952 • E-ISSN: 2164-8646 |
| Publisher | German Studies Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1431006 |
| OpenAlex | W591394162 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Schenzinger's Der Hitlerjunge Quex (1932) exemplify "realism" in books for young people.5Similar distortions appear in a number of "adult" literary histories regarding "Neue Sachlichkeit," the return to an objective reproduction of life in prose, a new facticity in art and literature dur ing the late Weimar period.Hence, Wilhelm Speyer and Erich Ebermayer, whose novels for young people project a decidedly volkisch5 idealism, are commonly grouped with Marxists such as Hans Fallada and Anna Seghers under the rubric of "Neue Sachlichkeit."7Because of the inherent social contradictions, scholars m d critics in the GDR dispute categories of realism outside the author's ideological context.8Orthodox East German criticism distinguishes authors according to political atti tudes: Kastner belongs to the "bourgeios-apologetic" class of liberal authors, Schenzinger to fascist literature and Wedding has been accorded a
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |