Anglophilia
Anglophilia (word formation with a suffix from the ancient Greek φιλία philía “friendship”, “love”, “affection”) describes the love of non- English people for English. The form of exaggeration is Anglomania . The antonym to anglophilia is anglophobia , the fear of English.
One of the fathers of continental Anglophilia was the French Voltaire , who in his "Lettres philosophiques" (also known as "Lettres anglaises") in 1733/1734 sang the song of English freedom in order to create a positive counter-image to the conditions in continental Europe (see Voltaire in England ).
Anglophilia in Germany is a movement that has its roots in literature and has made its way into politics. Thomas Mann , for example, said: “If only I had been born into Anglo-Saxon culture!” Anglophilia and Germanophilia , the love for everything German, functioned partly as a mirror image. The German Anglophilia was followed by the English reception of German classics and romantics, and then in turn the reception of English Germanophile writers in Germany.
The Hanseatic people are known for their Anglophilia (cf. in detail the Anglophilia of the Hanseatic people ), who also emulated the English lifestyle. Under the impression of its Anglophilia, Hamburg is still referred to as “the most English city on the continent”.
literature
- Josef Brüch : Anglomania in France. 1941
- Hans-Christof Kraus: Voltaire and Rapin de Thoryas. On the early history of political anglophilia in France , in: Academies in the 18th Century , 2001 ISBN 3-89244-461-7 , p. 97
- Roland Ludwig, The Reception of the English Revolution in German Political Thought and German Historiography in the 18th and 19th Centuries , Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-937209-27-1
- Michael Maurer, Enlightenment and Anglophilia in Germany , 1987, ISBN 3-525-36304-4
- Maurer, Michael: Anglophilia , European History Online , ed. from the Institute for European History (Mainz) , 2011, accessed on: June 22, 2011.
- Jutta Meise, Lessing's Anglophilie , 1997, ISBN 3-631-31301-2
- Stefan Neuhaus : Freedom, Inequality, Selfishness? Fontane and Great Britain. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49736-9 .
- Carl von Siemens, little gentlemen. A German in Oxford , 2010, ISBN 978-3-502-15159-3
- Ian Buruma : Europe's English Dream , 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34421-0
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter of November 23, 1948 to Agnes E. Meyer, quoted from: Hans Rudolf Vaget : Fontane, Wagner, Thomas Mann. On the beginnings of the modern novel in Germany , in: Eckhard Heftrich (Ed.): Theodor Fontane and Thomas Mann: the lectures of the international colloquium in Lübeck 1997 , 1998, ISBN 3-465-02991-7 , p. 252.
- ↑ Guenther Roth, Max Weber's German-English Family History 1800–1950 , 2001, ISBN 3-16-147557-7 , p. 489.
- ^ Böhme, Helmut, Frankfurt and Hamburg. The German Empire's silver and gold hole and the most English city on the continent , Frankfurt am Main 1968.
- ↑ a work within the framework of Nazi cultural policy , Romanist part of the sub-project "Confrontation with Western Europe", directed by Fritz Neubert, most recently FU Berlin, who served four German regimes (Weimar, NS, GDR, FRG) without any problems. The initiator of the overall project was Paul Ritterbusch , Kiel, on behalf of the REM Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education , shortly before the Wehrmacht's western offensive. More details: Patricia Oster: At the turning point. Germany and France around 1945 Transcript, Bielefeld 2008 ISBN 978-3-89942-668-7 , readable online