Arnold Dreyblatt LESEZEICHEN BOOKMARKS

Jakob Wassermann Deutscher und Jude German and Jew

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Dreyblatt, ArnoldHeimann-Jelinek, FelicitasWinkler, KurtEisenstein, Daniela F.Hrsg.

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

95 Seiten

Deutsch

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PrefaceDaniela F. Eisenstein[...] It is in vain to live for them and die for them. They say: he is a Jew. The Fürth-born author Jakob Wassermann wrote these lines in 1921 in his autobiographical essay My Life As German and Jew . Twelve years before the beginning of the National Socialist regime, he unsparingly described in this work the antisemitism he experienced.Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) was one of the most widely read authors of his era. He initially viewed the success of his books as proof of the successful German-Jewish symbi- osis. However, growing antisemitism and the beginning of National Socialism forced him back into the spiritual ghetto from which he had once set out. Throughout his life, Was- sermann suffered, believing his attempt to be accepted by the German society as a Jew had failed. His almost manic preoccupation with German-Jewish identity in his writings is shocking; in terms of language and content, they reflect Wassermann s time and are yet still current. [...]mehr

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KlappentextPrefaceDaniela F. Eisenstein[...] It is in vain to live for them and die for them. They say: he is a Jew. The Fürth-born author Jakob Wassermann wrote these lines in 1921 in his autobiographical essay My Life As German and Jew . Twelve years before the beginning of the National Socialist regime, he unsparingly described in this work the antisemitism he experienced.Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) was one of the most widely read authors of his era. He initially viewed the success of his books as proof of the successful German-Jewish symbi- osis. However, growing antisemitism and the beginning of National Socialism forced him back into the spiritual ghetto from which he had once set out. Throughout his life, Was- sermann suffered, believing his attempt to be accepted by the German society as a Jew had failed. His almost manic preoccupation with German-Jewish identity in his writings is shocking; in terms of language and content, they reflect Wassermann s time and are yet still current. [...]

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-9825997-0-0

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatPaperback (Deutsch)

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Jüdisches Museum Franken

ErscheinungsortFürth

ErscheinungslandDeutschland

Erscheinungsjahr2023

Erscheinungsdatum24.11.2023

AuflageNeuauflage

Seiten95 Seiten

SpracheDeutsch

Artikel-Nr.55689486

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4 Vorwort / PrefaceDaniela F. Eisenstein9 Text - Bild - Geste. Arnold Dreyblatts Installation Lesezeichen. Jakob Wassermann. Deutscher und Jude / Text - Image - Gesture: Arnold Dreyblatt´s Installation Bookmarks. Jakob Wassermann - German and Jew Dr. Kurt Winkler23 Zur Installation Lesezeichen von Arnold DreyblattOn the Installation Lesezeichen (Bookmarks) by Arnold DreyblattDr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek37 Mein Weg zu Jakob Wassermann / My Path to Jakob Wassermann Arnold Dreyblatt 53 LESEZEICHEN Gelesene Passagen, Video InstallationBOOKMARKS Read Passages, Video Installation Zu Arnold Dreyblatt / About Arnold Dreyblatt Zu den Autoren / About the Authors82 Zu Arnold Dreyblatt / About Arnold Dreyblatt90 Zu den Autoren / About the Authors92 Impressum / Imprint94 Literatur- und Bildnachweis / Literature and Photo Credits 94 Dank / Acknowledgementmehr

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Kurt Winkler[...] A few days ago, May 10, marked the commemoration of the book burnings that occurred ninety years ago. The events are well-known: On this day, thousands of works by writers and scholars were burned on the Opernplatz (today known as Bebelplatz) in Berlin as well as in 18 other university cities across Germany. The au- thors were personae non gratae due to their Jewish origins, their political views, or their forms of artistic expression. May 10, 1933 marked both the symbolic and the factual beginning of an unparalleled regime of exclusion, persecution, and annihila- tion, through which National Socialism spread its terror across Germany and Europe accompanied by the applause of a large part of the German population.A particularly shameful aspect of the book burnings is the fact that they were sup- ported by professors and carried out by organized student groups. The ideological motto was Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist (Operation against the Un-German Spirit), a message that indicated who was to be selected as belonging to German culture and who was to be excluded, even eradicated, from this culture.Jakob Wassermann´s works also numbered among the incriminated and discredit- ed literature that fell victim to the flames. His books had already been banned in the weeks following January 30, 1933, and Wassermann personally was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Arts. He experienced these developments as the ultimate step toward rejection and exclusion and as the ultimate disappointment of his hopes of being accepted as a Jewish author, as a Jew in the world of German literature, and - in the words of the time - as a member of the German cultural nation. At the time, Wassermann was living in Altaussee in Austria, where he eventually died in poverty and misery on January 1, 1934. His experience of the first year of Nazi rule surely contributed to his early death.The list of authors whose books were to be burned also included Thomas Mann. There is documentary evidence that his works, along with those of his brother Heinrich, were burned at least in the cities of Hannover, Hamburg, Göttingen, and Cologne. Twelve years before the events that unfolded on the Opernplatz in Berlin, Thomas Mann wrote a letter in friendliest veneration to Jakob Wassermann, which must be regarded as one of the most terrible mistakes in German literary history. [...]mehr