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The novella "The Judge" by Ernst Wiechert gives testimony to the poet’s critical analysis and examination
of the immediate National Socialist past and, at the same time, tries to provide some
forward-looking re-orientation in terms of a comprehensive humanism based on Christian ideals.
Wiechert’s narrative follows a dramatic structure in accordance with the tragedies of Classical
Greek...
Ernst Wiechert’s prose written in the 1930s is best symbolized by Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem
"Abendphantasie" (1799), in which the persona describes his loneliness and resignation, describing
them as a thorn in his chest. The question of the identification of these feelings with the East
Prussian writer is a major problem raised in the article. Wiechert certainly belongs to the group...
National Socialism did not only constitute a political doctrine; it was also a kind of worldview that left its mark on German and pan-European culture of the 20th century. The drastic changes that were linked to Hitler’s takeover of power confronted writers and poets with a completely new reality and wholly new conditions of the creative process. Those who could not or would not emigrate had to submit...
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