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245 0 0 _aFractured biographies /
_cedited by Ian Wallace.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York :
_bRodopi,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aGerman monitor,
_x0144-6355 ;
_vno. 57
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rIan Wallace --
_t‘A GENIUS FOR FRIENDSHIP’: FRITZ HABER /
_rIan Wallace --
_tBLENDE AUF: JOSEF BREITENBACH /
_rWolfgang Schopf --
_t‘WAS AUSGEWANDERT SEIN HEISST, ERFÄHRT MAN ERST NACH JAHRZEHNTEN’ – JOHN HENNIG IM (IRISCHEN) EXIL /
_rGisela Holfter and Hermann Rasche --
_tJULIUS POKORNY: AN OUTSIDER BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM, ETHNICITY AND CELTICISM /
_rPól O’Dochartaigh --
_t‘LOB DER EMIGRATION’: ALBIN STUEBS /
_rIan Wallace --
_tA LIFE AMONG GYPSIES AND WOLVES: OTTO ALSCHER’S QUEST FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO MODERN CIVILISATION /
_rAxel Goodbody --
_tGEORG KREISLER – THE PESSIMISTIC OPTIMIST /
_rColin Beaven --
_tINDEX OF NAMES /
_rIan Wallace --
_tLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS /
_rIan Wallace.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aA physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies (John Hennig) and a Celtic philologist (Julius Pokorny) are the focus of this volume. What they have in common is a biography fractured by the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. Six were forced into exile; the life of the seventh, the Romanian-German writer Otto Alscher, shows that even the biography of a Nazi sympathiser could be dislocated by the years of dictatorship. As the previously unpublished letters which are reproduced here show, Fritz Haber, a Nobel prize winner, spent ‘his last lonely months’ seeking a dignified way to leave the country to which he had once felt the deepest attachment. Although a prominent member of Germany’s academic élite, Julius Pokorny had to retire because of his Jewish ancestry in December 1935 and yet was allowed to continue publishing on ethnic themes until his exile in 1943. Albin Stuebs was forced to seek refuge in Prague and later England when his left-wing political convictions made him a certain target for the Nazis. Because of his marriage into a liberal Jewish family, John Hennig had to renounce all hope of an academic career in Nazi Germany and, after his exile to Ireland, struggled in straitened circumstances to support his family while at the same time developing into an unusually prolific scholar. Proof that exile may stimulate creative energy is provided by Josef Breitenbach, whose remarkable biography appears to show that loss and uprootedness may release otherwise undeveloped creative potential. Similarly, the flight of Georg Kreisler from Vienna in 1938 was the start of ‘a remarkable voyage of discovery’ which saw him grow into a major, if consistently undervalued figure in the world of post-war German cabaret.
650 0 _aExiles
_zGermany
_vBiography.
650 0 _aNational socialism
_xPsychological aspects.
650 7 _aEthnic relations.
_2fast
650 7 _aExiles.
_2fast
650 7 _aNational socialism
_xPsychological aspects.
_2fast
651 0 _aGermany
_xEthnic relations.
651 7 _aGermany.
_2fast
655 7 _aBiography.
_2fast
700 1 _aWallace, Ian,
_d1942-
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tFractured Biographies
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2003,
_z9789042009660
830 0 _aGerman Monitor
_v57.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004334342
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