Flight of Fantasy: New Perspectives on Inner Emigration in German Literature, 1933-1945Neil H. Donahue, Doris Kirchner Berghahn Books, 2003 - 318 During the Nazi era many German writers chose, or were forced into, exile. Many others stayed and, after the end of this period, claimed to have retreated into "Inner Emigration". The nature of this kind of emigration and the underlying motives of these writers have been hotly debated to this day. Though the reception of Inner Emigration has often been confounded by disputes over the term itself, the issue is ultimately not a matter of nomenclature, but of more far-reaching issues of literary evaluation, moral discernment and the writing of history. This volume presents, for the first time, to an English-speaking readership the complexity of Inner Emigration through the analysis of problematic individual cases of writers who, under constant pressure from a watchful dictatorship to conform and to collaborate, were caught between conscience and compromise. |
Spis treści
Coming to Terms with the German Past | 1 |
Case Studies | 6 |
Foundational Essays | 27 |
The Young Generations NonNational Socialist Literature | 46 |
Synoptic Studies | 82 |
A New Epitaph | 113 |
Poetry of Inner Emigration | 131 |
Depictions of the State in Works of the Inner Emigration | 152 |
Luise Rinsers Escape into Inner Emigration | 199 |
Survival without Compromise? Reconfiguring the Past | 211 |
The Image of Erich Kästner among | 223 |
Günther Weissenborns Ballad of His Life | 235 |
Horst Langes Visionary | 248 |
Elisabeth Langgässer and the Question of Inner Emigration | 269 |
The Unsettling History of German Historians in | 277 |
Film | 292 |
The Limits on Literary Life in the Third Reich | 168 |
Opposition or Opportunism? Günter Eichs Status | 176 |
Friedrich ReckMalleczewens | 188 |