Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1992) 42-76
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Discusses German political culture in the decade after 1945 as expressed in public reception of plays and films. Describes this culture as righteously philosemitic, but with antisemitism close beneath the surface and constantly breaking through; what was illegitimate in politics seemed permissible in the cultural realm. Philosemitic stereotypes of the Jew (e.g. "Nathan the Wise") easily turned into their opposites. Jews and liberals who protested against screenings of the British movie "Oliver Twist" or against performances (in themselves harmless) with actors or directors who previously worked for the Nazis, such as Veit Harlan, were attacked by mobs and by the German police and were stigmatized by the press as foreign black-marketeers. Films and plays avoided Jewish themes; the public did not want to be reminded of the past. Fassbinder recoiled from philosemitic stereotypes and adopted antisemitic ones instead. After the reunification of Germany, Syberberg called for a German culture free of the Jewish domination which in his view had been imposed on it after Germany's defeat.
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