Asphalt literature

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As asphalt literature , "metropolitan heimatlich no longer rooted literature" is one from 1918 called. The term became popular in the Third Reich when Joseph Goebbels used it in his speech on May 10, 1933 on the occasion of the book burning on Berlin's Opernplatz . In the edition published from 1936 onwards, Meyer's Lexicon defined the asphalt literature as a "term for rootless metropolitan literature", which before 1933 was a "fashion and decay phenomenon, in part of alien origin".

Works by Alfred Döblin , Bertolt Brecht , Lion Feuchtwanger , Erich Kästner and other writers who were persecuted by the Nazi regime were considered asphalt literature .

literature

  • Thomas B. Schumann: Asphaltliteratur: 45 essays and references to authors ostracized and persecuted in the Third Reich (Library Adaptation and Resistance) . Klaus Guhl, 1983, ISBN 978-3-88220-152-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Küpper, Heinz: Dictionary of German colloquial language, 1755, sv Asphaltliteratur
  2. ↑ Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism, page 72.
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of National Socialism , p. 825.