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Die vorliegende Monographie vereint Studien zu fünf bedeutenden Dramen der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur: 'Toller' und 'Harrys Kopf' von Tankred Dorst, 'Die Plebejer proben den Aufstand' von Günter Grass, 'In Goethes Hand' von Martin Walser und 'Hölderlin' von Peter Weiss. Die genannten Werke werden in detailgenauen Analysen interpretiert, wobei nicht nur der geschichtliche Kontext der jeweiligen historischen Dichtergestalten genauestens erörtert, sondern auch der Kontext der Werke der genannten zeitgenössischen Dramatiker eingehend untersucht wird. Politische und zeitgeschichtliche Aspekte treten hierbei ebenso hervor wie Aspekte der Intertextualität und der epochenübergreifenden Dialogizität. Historie und Literarhistorie erweisen sich dabei als Projektionsfläche für die poetische Selbstreflexion, die selbst noch unter dem Schein des Dokumentarischen fiktionale Palimpseste dichterischer Selbstaussage hervorbringt.

Poets in literature --- Authors, German, in literature --- Weiss, Peter, --- Dorst, Tankred --- Grass, Günter, --- Walser, Martin, --- Characters --- Poets --- Théâtre --- Dorst, Tankred, --- Grass, Günter, --- Critique et interprétation --- Weiss, Peter, - 1916-1982 - Hölderlin --- Weiss, Peter, - 1916-1982 - Characters - Poets --- Dorst, Tankred - Characters - Poets --- Grass, Günter, - 1927- - Plebejer proben den Aufstand --- Grass, Günter, - 1927- - Characters - Poets --- Walser, Martin, - 1927- - In Goethes Hand --- Walser, Martin, - 1927- - Characters - Poets --- Weiss, Peter, - 1916-1982 --- Grass, Günter, - 1927 --- -Walser, Martin, - 1927- - In Goethes Hand --- Walser, Martin, - 1927 --- -Théâtre --- -Poets in literature --- Walser, Martin, - 1927-

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The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement 'Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon,' thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the 'Walser-Bubis Debate.' The speech continues to loom large in Germany's struggle to acknowledge responsibility for Nazi crimes yet escape a suffocating burden of remembrance. But in spite of its notoriety, little attention has been paid to what the speech actually says, as opposed to the public outcry and debate that followed it. This book presents the text of the speech, along with several of Walser's other essays and speeches about the Holocaust and its impact on German identity, in English translation. It examines them as texts, a process that involves a discussion of literary complexities and an attempt to distinguish valid criticism of German intellectual life from what is justifiably problematic. And it places this textual examination in the context of Walser's and other postwar German intellectuals' attempts to deal with the Nazi past, of German-Jewish relations in the postwar era, and of the once hidden and now - due in part to Walser's speech - increasingly open discourse about Germans as victims during and immediately after the Nazi era. Thomas A. Kovach is professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona.

Walser, Martin, --- Political and social views. --- Germany --- Third Reich, 1933-1945 --- History. --- History --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. --- Germany -- History. --- Walser, Martin, -- 1927- -- Political and social views. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- German-Jewish Relations. --- Germans as Victims. --- Martin Walser. --- Nazi Past. --- Peace Prize Speech. --- 1927 --- -Political and social views.

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82:159.9 --- 82-31 --- German fiction --- -Mental illness in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- German literature --- 82-31 Roman --- Roman --- 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- History and criticism --- Handke, Peter --- -Meckel, Christoph --- -Walser, Martin --- -מקל, כריסטוף --- Meckel, Christophe --- Meckel, Christopher --- Hantʻukʻe --- Hantʻukʻe, Pʻetʻŏ --- Handke, P. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mental illness in literature --- Meckel, Christoph --- Walser, Martin, --- מקל, כריסטוף --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Roman allemand --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature. --- Psychanalyse et littérature. --- German fiction. --- Romans. --- Psychische stoornissen. --- Duits. --- Deutsch. --- Psychoanalyse. --- Roman. --- Roman allemand - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique. --- Histoire et critique --- Handke, Peter. --- Meckel, Christoph. --- Handke, Peter, --- Meckel, Christoph, --- Andrae, A. --- Walser, Martin. --- Handke, Peter - Critique et interprétation. --- Meckel, Christoph - Critique et interprétation. --- Walser, Martin <1927-> - Critique et interprétation. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Geschichte 1972-1982. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1900-2000.