Essays on German Literature and the Holocaust

Essays on German Literature and the Holocaust

Festschrift for David A. Scrase in
Celebration of
His Eightieth Birthday

Wolfgang Mieder, EDITOR

PETER LANG

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Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw

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DOI 10.3726/b14905

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About the editor

Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he has taught for many years together with his colleague and friend David A. Scrase. He is an internationally recognized proverb scholar with honorary doctorate degrees from the universities of Athens and Bucharest. Among his most recent books are Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics and Proverbs and the American Worldview.

About the book

This celebratory volume consists of nineteen previously published essays by Professor David A. Scrase. These English-language essays are divided into three sections: (1) studies on the twentieth-century German author Wilhelm Lehmann; (2) literary studies on Johannes Bobrowski, Ludwig Greve, Stephan Hermlin, and others; and (3) studies on the literature, art, and film of the Holocaust. The book addresses German literature of the twentieth century in particular, with an emphasis on modern poetry and fiction by East and West German authors. Another theme concerns itself with biographical matters of various authors. While there is an empha- sis on the poetry and fiction of Wilhelm Lehmann, the third section on the Holocaust also addresses the important factor of teaching about the Holocaust at schools and on the undergraduate level of colleges and uni- versities. In its entirety the book includes an impressive overview of the rich German literary world of the twentieth century while also stressing the necessary study of the Holocaust through literary and artistic expressions. The detailed analysis of numerous poems will be of much use to students, and some of the articles on the Holocaust will be useful to instructors as they prepare courses on the literature, art, and film dealing with various aspects of the Holocaust.

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Contents

Tabula gratulatoria

Preface

Studies on Wilhelm Lehmann

Chapter 1

Wilhelm Lehmann

Chapter 2

Wilhelm Lehmann as Translator

Chapter 3

“Leicht” and “Schwer” in the Poetry of Wilhelm Lehmann←v | vi→

Chapter 4

Discussing “This and That” and Modern German Literature—The Correspondence of Jethro Bithell with Wilhelm Lehmann (1952–59)

Chapter 5

Wilhelm Lehmann’s Michael Lippstock: A Reassessment of an Erstwhile “Poeta Pittore” and His Repudiated Work

Chapter 6

Wilhelm Lehmann (4 May 1882–17 November 1968)

Literary Studies

Chapter 7

Point Counterpoint: Variations on the “Fest” Theme in Johannes Bobrowski’s Levins Mühle

Chapter 8

The Role and Relevance of the Movable Feast: The Fest Motif in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Chapter 9

Dimensions of Reality: West German Poetry of the Seventies

Chapter 10

Correcting Emotion: The Poetry of Ludwig Greve within the Context of West German Trends

Chapter 11

The Poetry of Johannes Bobrowski←vi | vii→

Chapter 12

“Wo gehörten sie hin?” The Berlin Autobiographies of Stephan Hermlin and Ludwig Greve

Studies on the Holocaust

Chapter 13

Literature of the Holocaust

Chapter 14

Art and the Holocaust

Chapter 15

The Holocaust Through Literature and Film

Chapter 16

Fact, Fiction, Truth, Lies: The Rights of Imagination and the Rights of History in Four Holocaust Accounts

Chapter 17

Building a Holocaust Studies Program for Both Town and Gown

Chapter 18

Hermann Friedrich Gräbe: Rescue in Rovno

Chapter 19

“To Leave or Not to Leave—That Was Just One of the Questions”: Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich

List of Publications←vii | viii→ ←viii | ix→

Tabula gratulatoria

Joseph Acquisto

University of Vermont

Z. Philip Ambrose

University of Vermont

Howard Ball

University of Vermont

Jake Barickman

University of Vermont

Gideon Bavly

University of Vermont

Doris Bergen

University of Toronto

Robert Bernheim

University of Maine at Augusta

Adriana Borra

University of Vermont

Antonello Borra

University of Vermont

Kathrin Bower

University of Richmond

Tony Bradley

University of Vermont

Roger Cooke

University of Vermont

Patricia Corcoran

University of Vermont

Moustapha Diouf

University of Vermont←ix | x→

University of Vermont←x | xi→

Amherst, Massachusetts←xi | xii→