Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
New German Critique
Angaben zur Quelle:
38 (1986) 39-56
Keywords:
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner,
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism
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Antisemitism in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
German drama History and criticism
;
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) In literature
Abstract:
Analyzes arguments of the mainly left-wing supporters of the production of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play "Garbage, the City and Death" in Frankfurt. They accused conservatives and Jews, who opposed the performance of the play, of hypocrisy and evasion of open discussion of antisemitism, speaking in the name of "normality". States, however, that the leftists are also hypocritical. Their accusations that the Jewish community was threatening free speech and protecting "financial speculation" (referring to the housing crisis in Frankfurt, which is the motif of this play) recall traditional left-wing stereotypes of the all-powerful Jewish capitalists. For the Left, "normality" means freedom to attack Jews without being accused of antisemitism, and the belief that they know what is in the Jews’ best interests.
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