Nibelungen ideology

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The Nibelungen ideology describes those values ​​that can be found in the Nibelungenlied and that were associated with the German mentality and history (in the 19th and 20th centuries). One should think in particular of loyalty , German nationalism and militarism .

literature

  • Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : On the history of the impact of German heroic sagas , in: Michael Benedikt u. a. (Ed.): Displaced Humanism - Delayed Enlightenment , Vol. V: ... Philosophy in Austria 1920-1951, Vienna 2005, pp. 1047-1057.
  • Joachim Heinzle: The Nibelungenlied. Starting point of a German mythology of doom? In: Stefan Krimm, Wieland Zirbs (ed.): Wendezeiten (Acta Hohenschwangau 1997, Dialogue School - Science: German and History). Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1998, pp. 52–67.
  • Joachim Heinzle , Anneliese Waldschmidt (ed.): The Nibelungs. A German madness, a German nightmare. Studies and documents on the reception of the Nibelung material in the 19th and 20th centuries. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1991, Part II: Origin and development of the Nibelungen ideology in the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 41–190).
  • Herfried Münkler : The Germans and their Myths . Rowohlt, Berlin 2009, pp. 69-107.