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Ludwig Winder als Journalist in der Deutschen Zeitung Bohemia. Stichprobe 1919 - 1920
| Title in English | Ludwig Winder as a journalist in the Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia. Sample 1919 - 1920 |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter analyses Winder's journalism in 1919 and 1920. It is characterised by profound scepticism. He saw war everywhere in 1920. For him, the world war is not over, and at several points in his texts he is at least hypothetically concerned with how ‘passive resistance’ to the war could have come about. His reaction to declared militarism, on the other hand, is uncompromising. Winder is also very sensitive to systemic, institutionalised mechanisms of discrimination against Germans in Czechoslovakia (negotiations on war loans in parliament). However, she also observes seemingly minor, sometimes even unintentional intimidation and belittlement in the cultural sphere, be it in the form of the Czechs' disregard for German-Bohemian literature or the German language. He is also sceptical of fashions and artistic calculation as a literary reviewer. While he is particularly opposed to literary avant-gardes, he is far from rejecting all the products of literary expressionism, but can muster a great deal of enthusiasm for certain expressionist texts. The texts he praised, above all the cycle Versöhnungsfest by Ernst Weiß, have in common that they can restore the expressionist ideal of the human being in a way that Winder finds convincing, even in the situation of the war or the immediate post-war period. They start from the loss of the subject in war - and reconcile it with God, with itself, with others. In this sense, Winder, who analyses in the sharpest possible terms, remains an expressionist humanist. |
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