Sprachkunst Jahrgang LI/2020, 2. Halbband, pp. 69-100, 2021/01/26
Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
Jahrgang LI/2020, 2. Halbband
“And if the last racial Jew had been eliminated from the world”: Overview and previously hiddeninformation on Heimito von Doderer’s anti-Semitism.The article provides an overview of the anti-Semitism of the Austrian novelist Heimito vonDoderer (1896–1966). It presents his anti-Semitic novel project ›The Demons of the Ostmark‹,which was pursued in the 1930s, and shows problematic passages in texts after 1945 as well. Inaddition, explanations for also recognizable philo-Semitic traces are sought. A reading of the asyet unpublished ›Speech about the Jews‹ (1936) provides explosive results.