Zwischen Geist und Macht

The dissertation is dealing with four conservative bestselling authors who celebrated their first successes in the Weimar Republic, did not leave Germany after 1933 and dominated the literary field until the 1950s: Werner Bergengruen, Hans Carossa, Reinhold Schneider and Ernst Wiechert. The work does not focus on the question of the proximity or distance of these authors to the Nazi regime, but on their interpretation of the present and their self-presentation between 1930 and 1950. The search for orientation and self-positioning of these authors are outlined in case studies. In addition, the common poetic strategies are presented systematically.