Blood and Soil Literature

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The expression blood-and-soil literature (or blood-and-soil poetry ) denotes a special, especially heroic peasant, natural way of life in the folk literature of National Socialist Germany , but also in the literatures of other linguistic areas. In addition to this literary-historical term, the mostly derogatory or polemical short name Blubo literature can already be found in contemporary sources .

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“Blood and Soil Literature” differs from other currents of Nazi fiction in its glorification of rural life, nature and the return to nature. In addition to the inclusion of Germanic-pagan myths (e.g. from the saga of the Nibelungs ), it played an important role in creating the National Socialist worldview .

Nature and nature-loving or "natural" life are made the subject of a political myth by the writers of the Blood and Soil style . The focus is on the farmer and the farmer's wife as symbols of the “pure” German par excellence. The village society appears as a National Socialist microcosm. In addition to the “ living space ” ideology, National Socialist racism is also propagated through the blood-and-soil literature.

Authors belonging to this direction are Albert Bauer , Heinrich Anacker , Josefa Berens-Totenohl , Herbert Böhme , Hermann Eris Busse , Hermann Claudius , Friedrich Griese , Herybert Menzel and Gerhard Schumann . In addition to Richard Billinger , Joseph Georg Oberkofler and Karl Heinrich Waggerl, numerous other Austrian writers of the time belong to the Blubo literati. Most of these authors received considerable government funding - for example through the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

"Blubo literature"

The expression "Blubo literature" was coined in the 1930s in the context of discussions among writers critical of the regime in exile. Thomas Mann used it in his diary on July 25, 1934 . In 1938 it appears in the magazine Das Wort published by Brecht , Feuchtwanger and Bredel . After 1945 it can be found in many places, even in the literature lists of German libraries. In German-language literary studies, the expression was only accepted to a limited extent. In other contexts, the " Blubo ideology " is spoken of, but its focus is on the area of ​​agricultural policy. In France, however, the expression - u. a. in Heidegger - and the disciples already been used during the sixties and seventies widely - -Research. As in Dutch German studies, it is sometimes used to denote the entire inventory of National Socialist fiction literature.

See also

Contemporary writings

  • Gotthilf Stecher: Literature from blood and soil. Bonneß & Hachfeld, Potsdam & Leipzig [1936]
  • Hellmuth Langenbucher : Folk-like poetry of the time. 3rd edition Berlin 1937
  • Association of German writers Austria (ed.): Confession book of Austrian poets. Krystall Published by Wien 1938.

literature

  • Ernst Loewy (ed.): Literature under the swastika. The Third Reich and its poetry. A documentation. Foreword by Hans-Jochen Gamm . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1966
  • Günter Scholdt : Authors about Hitler. German-speaking writers 1919–1945 and their picture of the “Führer”. Bouvier, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-416-02451-6 .
  • Meret Forster: “Radicalism in the Middle”. Cultural criticism between blubo and asphalt: Ernst Krenek out and about in the Austrian Alps. In: Erhard Schütz , Gregor Streim (Ed.): Reflexes and reflections of modernity 1933–1945. Peter Lang, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-906770-14-1 , pp. 261-272 ( publications on the journal for German studies 6).
  • Anna Bramwell: Blood and Soil. In: Étienne François , Hagen Schulze (Ed.): German places of memory. Volume 3. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50989-4 , pp. 380-391
  • Franziska Schärli: The development of the peasant novel to blood and soil literature and the interest of the Third Reich in Jeremias Gotthelf . Bern 2007 (Bern, Univ., Licensed thesis, 2007)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Word. Literary Monthly 1938. Issue 1/3, p. 144.
  2. ^ Library and Education [journal]. Published by the Association of German People's Librarians, 1st year 1948/49, p. 667.
  3. ↑ See e.g. B. http://www.duitsland.nl/site/achtergronden/Literatuur/LiteratuurindeNazitijd.html