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New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar
period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in
German history. Characterized by economic and political
instability, polarization, and radicalism, the period witnessed the
efforts of many German writers to play a leading political role,
whether directly, in the chaotic years of 1918-1919, or indirectly,
through their works. The novelists chosen range from such
now-canonical authors as Alfred Doeblin, Hermann Hesse, and
Heinrich Mann to bestselling writers of the time such as Erich
Maria Remarque, B. Traven, Vicki Baum, and Hans Fallada. They also
span the political spectrum, from the right-wing Ernst Junger to
pacifists such as Remarque. The journalistic engagement of
JosephRoth, otherwise well known as a novelist, and of the recently
rediscovered writer Gabriele Tergit is also represented.
Contributors: Paul Bishop, Roland Dollinger, Helen Chambers, Karin
V. Gunnemann, David Midgley, Brian Murdoch, Fiona Sutton, Heather
Valencia, Jenny Williams, Roger Woods. Karl Leydecker is Reader in
German at the University of Kent.
The first full-length study in English of Heinrich Mann's literary
work and political activism. Heinrich Mann, once counted among the
most important literary figures in Germany, is known to most
English-speaking readers only as the brother of Thomas Mann, or in
connection with Marlene Dietrich and the film "The Blue
Angel,"which was based on one of his novels. Only a few of his
novels and stories and virtually none of his hundreds of
provocative essays are available in English. But he deserves
special attention for the window his work provides ontothe
intellectual, social, and political history of Germany, especially
Germany's struggle with the question of democracy in the early
twentieth century. In his essays and novels, Mann exposed Germany's
resistance to democracy wellbefore the First World War, and
especially during the Revolution of 1918/19 and the Weimar Republic
he made the education of the German people to democratic values and
a democratic form of government the center of his life and work.
Professor Gunnemann's book is the first work in English that
explores Heinrich Mann's work in detail. Special attention is given
to the history of the reception of Mann's works in Germany, which
is also a history of that nation's self-understanding. Karin Verena
Gunnemann is professor of German at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
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