Der große Krieg im Osten und die tragische Selbstbehauptung des Individuums. Antitotalitarismus und individualistischer Anarchismus in Theodor Plieviers Kriegstrilogie Moskau. Stalingrad. Berlin.

Author: Bernig Jörg  

Publisher: Rodopi

ISSN: 0304-6257

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Vol.50, Iss.1, 2001-06, pp. : 113-125

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Abstract

This paper examines some aspects of the significance of Theodor Plievier's novels "Moskau. Stalingrad. Berlin." (1945-54) for the literary discourse of war and totalitarianism. The novels are viewed as literary texts in the context of Hannah Arendt's (and others) analyses of the origins of totalitarianism. This paper also tries to unearth the link between Plievier's early anarchism in the wake of Max Stirner and the defence of the individual in the author's war trilogy, see in the light of Plievier's essay "Humanität und Staat." (1952).

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