Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Debatte; Review of Contemporary German Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,2 (1999) 175-184
Keywords:
Walser, Martin,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
In his acceptance speech for the German publishers' Peace Prize in 1998, Martin Walser referred to the Holocaust as a "moral cudgel" used against the German people and spoke against the proposed Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. States that Walser was always a leftist intellectual and that his new discourse must not be misconstrued as his having joined the rightist camp. However, in his writings Walser has maintained that everyone has a right to his own memory, a view similar to that of Edgar Reitz. Walser expressed this stand in his last novel, "Ein springender Brunnen, " which depicts the time of his youth without any mention of Auschwitz. The German nation has accepted both Walser's speech and his novel of 1998. Walser expressed the common state of mind - the postwar period is over, a new era has begun, and Germany's past must be treated like every other nation's past.
Note:
On Martin Walser.
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