German Writers and Politics 1918–39

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction: Commitment and the Illusion of Power

   • Richard Dove, Stephen Lamb

   Pages 1-12

3. Artists, Intellectuals and the German Independent Socialist Party (USP): Some Preliminary Reflections

   • Richard Sheppard

   Pages 13-29

4. René Schickele and the 1918 Revolution

   • Margaret Rogister

   Pages 30-43

5. Kurt Tucholsky’s Analysis of the 1918–19 Revolution

   • Ian King

   Pages 44-59

6. Ernst Toller: The Redemptive Power of the Failed Revolutionary

   • Frank Trommler

   Pages 60-75

7. Weimar and the Political Film: From Die Weber to Kuhle Wampe

   • John Warren

   Pages 76-88

8. From Social Fascism to Popular Front: KPD Policy as Reflected in the Works of Friedrich Wolf, Anna Seghers and Willi Bredel, 1928–1938

   • Anthony Grenville

   Pages 89-102

9. Politics and the War Novel: the Political Conception and Reception of Novels about the First World War

   • Hans-Harald Müller

   Pages 103-120

10. ‘Militant Humanism’: a Concept of the Third Way in Exile 1933–1945

    • Thomas Koebner

    Pages 121-148

11. Literary Exile in Great Britain

    • J. M. Ritchie

    Pages 149-162

12. Forms of Conviction: The Problem of Belief in Anti-Fascist Plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf

    • Tom Kuhn

    Pages 163-177

13. Ernst Toller and the Exigencies of Exile

    • N. A. Furness

    Pages 178-191

14. Ernst Toller and Ireland

    • Joachim Fischer

    Pages 192-206

15. Adventurism, Propaganda or Commitment? German Writers in the Spanish Civil War

    • Alexander Ostmann

    Pages 207-219

16. Back Matter

    Pages 220-225

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Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writers' relationship to political parties and ideology, their treatment of the legacy of World War I, and their response to the rise of fascism.

• communism
• novel
• Policy
• politics
• revolution

• Thames Polytechnic, UK

  Richard Dove

• University of Warwick, UK

  Stephen Lamb

Policies and ethics