Author： Tourlamain Guy
Publisher： Maney Publishing
ISSN： 1745-9214
Source： Oxford German Studies, Vol.39, Iss.3, 2010-12, pp. : 228-249
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Abstract
Taking Hans Grimm and the Lippoldsberger Dichtertage as a case study, this article examines the position of völkisch writers in the Third Reich and the development of their ideology after 1945. Grimm's efforts to popularize a nationalist and racial worldview independently of the NSDAP's cultural monopoly later provided him with an alibi on which he based his rejection of the idea of collective guilt after the Second World War. As a representative of an independent, right-wing intellectual tradition, his attitudes found ready reception among many Germans after 1945, identifying the German people as victims of the War rather than perpetrators of war-crimes and crimes against humanity. In new works and through public engagement after the Second World War, Grimm and his colleagues sought to rescue völkisch-nationalism from the Nazi label. Their own accounts of their activities emphasized the difficulties they had experienced during the Third Reich, seeking to mitigate their ideological similarities with the Nazis. A short examination of Grimm's life and worldview will provide an introduction to the themes that dominated the works — both fiction and non-fiction — of the writers who attended the Lippoldsberger Dichtertage. A closer analysis of the meetings in Lippoldsberg follows, both during the Third Reich and after 1949, with a particular emphasis on cultural life in Germany in the 1950s as a response to the new political order.
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