The burden of the past: Martin Walser on modern German identity : texts, contexts, commentary
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 inciti...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| spelling | Kovach, Thomas A. 1949- Verfasser (DE-588)110821939 aut The burden of the past Martin Walser on modern German identity : texts, contexts, commentary Thomas A. Kovach and Martin Walser Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2008 1 online resource (viii, 141 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) Introduction Our Auschwitz (1965) No end to Auschwitz (1979) Handshake with ghosts (1979) Speaking of Germany (a report) (1988) Experiences while composing a Sunday speech: The Peace Prize speech (1998) On talking to yourself: A flagrant attempt (2000) Conclusion 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 / 1927- / Political and social views Walser, Martin 1927-2023 (DE-588)118628852 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1945-2000 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1965-2000 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Vergangenheitsbewältigung (DE-588)4061672-1 gnd rswk-swf Essay (DE-588)4015553-5 gnd rswk-swf Politisches Denken (DE-588)4115590-7 gnd rswk-swf Nationalbewusstsein (DE-588)4041282-9 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland Germany / History / 1933-1945 Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Walser, Martin 1927-2023 (DE-588)118628852 p Essay (DE-588)4015553-5 s Deutschland (DE-588)4011882-4 g Politisches Denken (DE-588)4115590-7 s Geschichte 1965-2000 z 2\p DE-604 Nationalbewusstsein (DE-588)4041282-9 s Vergangenheitsbewältigung (DE-588)4061672-1 s Geschichte 1945-2000 z 3\p DE-604 Walser, Martin 1927-2023 Sonstige (DE-588)118628852 oth Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-1-57113-368-7 http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571137890/type/BOOK Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The burden of the past Martin Walser on modern German identity : texts, contexts, commentary |
| title_alt | Our Auschwitz (1965) No end to Auschwitz (1979) Handshake with ghosts (1979) Speaking of Germany (a report) (1988) Experiences while composing a Sunday speech: The Peace Prize speech (1998) On talking to yourself: A flagrant attempt (2000) |
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| title_full | The burden of the past Martin Walser on modern German identity : texts, contexts, commentary Thomas A. Kovach and Martin Walser |
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| title_sub | Martin Walser on modern German identity : texts, contexts, commentary |
| topic | Walser, Martin / 1927- / Political and social views Walser, Martin 1927-2023 (DE-588)118628852 gnd Geschichte Vergangenheitsbewältigung (DE-588)4061672-1 gnd Essay (DE-588)4015553-5 gnd Politisches Denken (DE-588)4115590-7 gnd Nationalbewusstsein (DE-588)4041282-9 gnd |
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