German Writers and Politics 1918–39

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Commitment and the Illusion of Power....Pages 1-12
Artists, Intellectuals and the German Independent Socialist Party (USP): Some Preliminary Reflections....Pages 13-29
René Schickele and the 1918 Revolution....Pages 30-43
Kurt Tucholsky’s Analysis of the 1918–19 Revolution....Pages 44-59
Ernst Toller: The Redemptive Power of the Failed Revolutionary....Pages 60-75
Weimar and the Political Film: From Die Weber to Kuhle Wampe ....Pages 76-88
From Social Fascism to Popular Front: KPD Policy as Reflected in the Works of Friedrich Wolf, Anna Seghers and Willi Bredel, 1928–1938....Pages 89-102
Politics and the War Novel: the Political Conception and Reception of Novels about the First World War....Pages 103-120
‘Militant Humanism’: a Concept of the Third Way in Exile 1933–1945....Pages 121-148
Literary Exile in Great Britain....Pages 149-162
Forms of Conviction: The Problem of Belief in Anti-Fascist Plays by Bruckner, Toller and Wolf....Pages 163-177
Ernst Toller and the Exigencies of Exile....Pages 178-191
Ernst Toller and Ireland....Pages 192-206
Adventurism, Propaganda or Commitment? German Writers in the Spanish Civil War....Pages 207-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-225