Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2002) 311-316
Keywords:
Neumann, Robert,
;
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract:
In "Der Tatbestand oder Der gute Glaube der Deutschen" (1968), the Jewish writer Robert Neumann, like Martin Walser in "Tod eines Kritikers", presents a repulsive Jewish figure based on Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Neumann had met Reich-Ranicki and admired him; he confessed that he himself did not understand why he made him so odious. Sahl-Sobuski, the character in the novel, hands himself over to German justice at the time of the Auschwitz trial because in April 1945 he betrayed two Jews to an SS-man in order to save himself. The state prosecutor, also a Jew (based on the figure of Fritz Bauer), muses that if every perpetrator or passive onlooker got his due, Germany would be depopulated.
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