Publication details
Heimatfeindlich - angeheimelt. Ke vztahu německy píšících spisovatelů k Moravě
| Title in English | Heimatfeindlich - angeheimelt. On the relationship of authors writing in German to Moravia. |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Rozrazil |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Czech and Germans; nationalism; Jews in Moravia; Moravian identity |
| Description | The relationship of Moravian authors writing in German to Moravia at the end of 19C and in the first half of 20C was ambiguous at best. This paper illustrates this ambiguity on the example of the German-speaking inhabitant of Brno sketched out in the fragment of Nationen-Kapitel of Der Mann ohne Eingenschaften by Robert Musil. He defends his city when it's denigrated by others, in an indirect expression of affection, but rejects praise by foreigners as well. Paradoxical seem also statements of Huga Sonneschein-Sonka, a Jewish anarchist and Trotskyite writer from the small South-Moravian town of Kyjov, "my homeland is Maehrische Slovakei and Israel". Although few generalizations are flawless, Moravian identity is the stronger, the more generous the writers were in their acknowledgement of the prevalence of the Czech element in Moravia. |