Flight of Fantasy

by Donahue, Neil H.; Kirchner, Doris

• ISBN13: 9781571810021
• ISBN10: 1571810021
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-20
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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. Neil H. Donahueis Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University. Doris Kirchneris Associate Professor of German at the University of Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction: ``Coming to Terms'' with the German Past	1	(10)
Neil H. Donahue
The Past of the Term
Inner Emigration: The Term and Its Origins in Postwar Debates	11	(16)
Stephen Brockmann
Foundational Essays
In the Thicket of Inner Emigration	27	(19)
Reinhold Grimm
The Young Generation's Non-National Socialist Literature during the Third Reich	46	(36)
Hans Dieter Schafer
New Perspectives: Synoptic Studies
Culture as Simulation: The Third Reich and Postmodernity	82	(31)
Hans Dieter Schafer
Targeting the Reader, Entering History: A New Epitaph for the Inner Emigration	113	(18)
Frank Trommler
Absences of Time and History: Poetry of Inner Emigration	131	(21)
Leonard Olschner
Depictions of the State in Works of the Inner Emigration	152	(16)
Colin Riordan
The Limits on Literary Life in the Third Reich	168	(8)
Volker Dahm
New Perspectives: Case Studies
Opposition or Opportunism? Gunter Eich's Status as Inner Emigrant	176	(12)
Glenn R. Cuomo
Conservative Opposition: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Antifascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria	188	(11)
Karl-Heinz Schoeps
Luise Rinser's Escape into Inner Emigration	199	(12)
Diana Orendi
Survival without Compromise? Reconfiguring the Past in the Works of Hans Werner Richter and Alfred Andersch	211	(12)
Rhys W. Williams
Exile honoris causa: The Image of Erich Kastner among Writers in Exile	223	(12)
Guy Stern
Gunther Weissenborn's Ballad of His Life	235	(13)
Wulf Koepke
Between Apocalypse and Arcadia: Horst Lange's Visionary Imagination during the Third Reich	248	(10)
Gerald Funk
``I mounted resistance, though I hid the fact'': Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen's Early Biography	258	(11)
David Basker
Elisabeth Langgasser and the Question of Inner Emigration	269	(8)
Cathy S. Gelbin
The Turn Inward Outside of Literature
History
The Unsettling History of German Historians in the Third Reich	277	(15)
Amy R. Sims
Film
State of the Art as Art of the Nazi State: The Limits of Cinematic Resistance	292	(13)
David Bathrick
Selected Bibliography	305	(4)
Index	309