Post war literature
With post-war literature is called after the Second World War created and under the influence of war and Nazi literature. Historically, the end of the post-war period in Germany is difficult to define. German-language post-war literature can be dated from 1945 to the dissolution of Group 47 in 1967.
German Democratic Republic
A relatively homogeneous literature developed in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR that emerged from it. State influence and the dominant position of returning communist émigrés shaped the first main topic of accounting for National Socialism as a criminal form of capitalism. Thereafter, literature was largely used to build a socialist society.
Federal Republic of Germany
In West Germany, literary life was initially dominated by authors who thematically and stylistically linked to the interwar period or even older traditions. They often responded to the catastrophe of National Socialism with a return to Christian and bourgeois values. Well-read authors in this direction included Ernst Wiechert , Werner Bergengruen and Hans Carossa .
Other writers found it wrong to continue writing in the old style after the war. Due to language skepticism , post-war literature split into three different types: literature with natural magic tendencies ( magical realism ), rubble and clear-cut literature, and hermetics .
Most of the West German authors who appear today as protagonists of post-war literature were debutants and were only gradually gaining public acceptance. Wolfgang Borchert, who died in 1947 ( outside the door ), is considered the author of the post-war period . Alfred Andersch's story The Cherries of Freedom , in which he justified his desertion, caused a stir . In 1952 , Heinrich Böll wrote about the initially critical reception of the young authors : “The first literary attempts of our generation after 1945 were described as rubble literature, they tried to dismiss it. We did not defend ourselves against this designation because it rightly existed: in fact, the people we wrote about lived in ruins, they came from the war, men and women equally injured. "
See also
Web links
- Post-war literature (1945–1950) . In Zeit Online Lernplattform , February 24, 2012 (accessed January 15, 2017).