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  1. Lebenswege und Lektüren
    Österreichische NS-Vertriebene in den USA und Kanada
    Contributor: Müller-Kampel, Beatrix (Publisher)
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Müller-Kampel, Beatrix (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110935554; 9783111818351
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    RVK Categories: NQ 4305
    Series: Conditio Judaica ; 30
    Subjects: Juden; Lektüre; Interview; Österreicher; Exil
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 352 S.), Ill.
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    Main description: What was the driving force that motivated Austrians driven out of their homeland after 1938 and seeking refuge in the United States and Canada to devote their professional lives to the cultivation of literature in German, thus becoming intermediaries re-tilling the intellectual subsoil of the 'perpetrator cultures' Germany and Austria in their new home? Alongside practical considerations it was certainly a love of literature, of Kafka, Rilke, Werfel, Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig and their literary worlds, all of which held out the prospect of regaining a finer, more humane homeland. Throughout, however, their suspicion of German literary studies (a discipline which as early as the 1920s had vigorously supported the dissemination of nationalist and national socialist cultural ideology at Germany's universities) remained very marked indeed. At the same time, the analytic re-acquisition of literature, philosophy and art was a way of rebelling against the enforced abandonment not only of murdered friends, slaughtered relatives and confiscated property but also everything which had started to represent a home from home culturally, intellectually and emotionally

  2. Lebenswege und Lektüren
    Österreichische NS-Vertriebene in den USA und Kanada
    Contributor: Müller-Kampel, Beatrix (Publisher)
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Hochschule Kempten, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Universität der Bundeswehr München, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Müller-Kampel, Beatrix (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110935554; 9783111818351
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: NQ 4305
    Series: Conditio Judaica ; 30
    Subjects: Juden; Lektüre; Interview; Österreicher; Exil
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 352 S.), Ill.
    Notes:

    Main description: What was the driving force that motivated Austrians driven out of their homeland after 1938 and seeking refuge in the United States and Canada to devote their professional lives to the cultivation of literature in German, thus becoming intermediaries re-tilling the intellectual subsoil of the 'perpetrator cultures' Germany and Austria in their new home? Alongside practical considerations it was certainly a love of literature, of Kafka, Rilke, Werfel, Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig and their literary worlds, all of which held out the prospect of regaining a finer, more humane homeland. Throughout, however, their suspicion of German literary studies (a discipline which as early as the 1920s had vigorously supported the dissemination of nationalist and national socialist cultural ideology at Germany's universities) remained very marked indeed. At the same time, the analytic re-acquisition of literature, philosophy and art was a way of rebelling against the enforced abandonment not only of murdered friends, slaughtered relatives and confiscated property but also everything which had started to represent a home from home culturally, intellectually and emotionally