Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
German Life and Letters
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,2 (1988) 145-158
Keywords:
Doderer, Heimito von,
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
After the war, Heimito von Doderer was highly respected as an Austrian novelist until his connections with the Nazi Party were exposed in the 1970s. Doderer joined the party in 1933 and left Vienna to live in the town of Dachau in 1937. However, he became disillusioned with Nazi Germany and in 1940 converted to Catholicism and left the party. Analyzes the influence of antisemitic ideas current at Vienna University in the 1920s and of Spengler and Otto Weininger on his prewar works and private diaries, as well as his relationships with Jewish women and belief that the Jewish-dominated Vienna intellectual world had obstructed his writing career. Concludes that despite his obsession with Jews and his hostile remarks, these works were not simplistic antisemitic tracts, and that by 1939 Doderer had already rejected German nationalism.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-0483.1988.tb00926.x
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