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Ernst Toller and German Society - Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914-1939 (Paperback)
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Ernst Toller and German Society - Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914-1939 (Paperback)
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During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of
the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A
leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the
Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best
playwrights. Indeed, during the years of the Weimar Republic, the
popularity of his works was unquestioned. His first play, Die
Wandlung, was soon sold out and required a second edition; his
dramatic works and poems were translated into twenty-seven
languages. During the 1920's it was said that he "dominated the
German and Russian theatre" and that he was the "most spectacular
personality in modern German literature." It was common for
contemporaries to classify him as one of the foremost German
writers of the Weimar era. During the 1930s, as an exile, he
popularized to foreign audiences the idea of "the other Germany"
and became a leading spokesman against Hitler. However, it is
Toller the social critic rather than Toller the dramatist with
which thisbook is concerned, his ideas, his visions for Germany and
Europe as transmitted in his works of fiction and prose. The book
reflects on the responsibility an intellectual-critic has when
writing about a democratic society (the Weimar Republic) that is
unsuccessfully balancing between survival and annihilation. Toller
was furthermore a Jewish intellectual. How did his religious
traditions shape his views? He was also German and this raises a
whole host of specifically Germanic patterns of looking at the
world. He was also a left-wing intellectual and Toller is set in
the broader context of left-wing intellectuals in Weimar and the
Nazi era. A related reflection is to ask: so what? What difference
did it make? How much of an influence do intellectuals have in the
development of society? What is the relationship between
intellectuals and their readers in a troubled society?
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