Nibelungen ideology
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.