Journey of No Return : Five German-Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1933-1945

, by Dove, Richard

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ISBN: 9781870352369 | 187035236X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/2000

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List of Illustrations

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Note on Sources

Introduction

(14)

PART ONE: The Flight of Intellectuals

Departure...

(20)

The King of Critics

(3)

Alfred Kerr

The Poet as Outsider

(3)

Max Herrmann-Neiße

A Writer of Conviction

(4)

Karl Otten

With the Pens of Others

(4)

Robert Neumann

The World's Most Translated Living Author

(4)

Stefan Zweig

...and Arrival

(62)

PART TWO: The Waiting Room (1933--1936)

The Cultural Context

(5)

`Miles away from Politics'

(20)

Stefan Zweig

Lost in Translation

(11)

Robert Neumann

`My Life is ever Emptier'

(14)

Max Herrmann-Neiße

`An Irreproachable and Harmless Young Man of 67 Years'

(9)

Alfred Kerr

PART THREE: Isolation or Integration (1936--1939)

Aspects of Appeasement

(42)

The Shadow of Spain

102

(16)

Karl Otten

Living `from Miracle to Miracle'

118

(8)

Alfred Kerr

`Monologue on a Foreign Stage'

126

(13)

Max Herrmann-Neiße

The End of Austria

139

(20)

The Burden of Success

142

(9)

Stefan Zweig

An Expert in Survival

151

(8)

Robert Neumann

Peace in Our Time

159

(9)

PART FOUR: Enemy Aliens (1939--41)

The Phoney War and Internment

168

(27)

`Concentration Camp, English Style': Robert Neumann's Internment Diary

174

(10)

The World of Yesterday

184

(5)

`Quietly and Inconspicuously'

189

(6)

`Doing Their Bit' -- German Writers at the BBC

195

(12)

`Marching On': Karl Otten as Scriptwriter

197

(6)

`Serving the Cause': Alfred Kerr and the BBC

203

(4)

PART FIVE: No Man's Land (1941--45)

Writers without Language

207

(22)

Death of a European

209

(7)

Metamorphosis: The Making of an `English' Author

216

(7)

The Limits of Cultural Mobility

223

(6)

Alfred Kerr

`After the War is Over...'

229

(26)

Thoughts on Germany

231

(16)

Free Austria

247

(8)

PART SIX: Return Journey

`Once an Emigre, Always an Emigre': the Reception of Exile Literature in Post-War Germany

255

(12)

Notes

267

(23)

Bibliography

290

(11)

Index

301

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