Language:
German
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2014) 12 pp.
Keywords:
Mann, Thomas, Film adaptations
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German fiction History and criticism
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Jews in literature
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Motion pictures
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Jews in motion pictures
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Jews
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Germany History 1945-
Abstract:
Thomas Mann is the single best representative of German culture to authenticate the Federal Republic of Germany's foundation narrative. As an exile, he was beyond any suspicion that he might have in any way supported the Nazi regime. As an American residing in Switzerland, he was more easily included in the Western camp than, for example, his brother Heinrich. As a Nobel price winner and internationally respected author, he embodied the German cultural nation. As a member of the grandfathers' generation, he represented a better Germany with traditions that reached far beyond January 1933 - traditions which the Federal Republic wanted to latch onto. The desire to divorce this older tradition from the Nazi past via the person of Thomas Mann is demonstrated more than anything by the author's academic reception. His treatment in popular culture- the transposition of his works into the mass medium film- was obviously even more effective, however. This lecture addressed how the Jewish figures in his novels and novellas were successively made to disappear or vanished in the works' post-war film treatments.
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