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Sehnsucht und Krisenbewusstsein. Studien zum frühen Erzählwerk Klaus Manns (1924–1926). Mit einem Exkurs zur Verbindung zwischen Klaus Mann und Ernst Bloch in den Weimarer Jahren und der Exilzeit

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2022-07-04

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This study systematically examines Klaus Mann’s early prose work that he wrote when he was not yet twenty years old and which has been neglected by previous research. It conducts three individual, work-oriented hermeneutic studies on “Die Jungen” (1924), “Der fromme Tanz” (1925) and “Kindernovelle” (1926), thereby serving a double purpose. First of all, these style-defining texts are analyzed with regard to their development and content. In addition, they are compared with each other under the aspect of “longing and crisis awareness” in the context of Klaus Mann’s complete genesis of work and the general intellectual and historical framework of the Weimar Republic. The main goal of the study is to identify the artistic and socio-critical qualities of these writings. Underlining their aesthetic autonomy, the analysis counters reductive readings that either search for biographical dependencies on Thomas Mann as a person and his work or consider these texts to be inferior to Klaus Mann’s more political exile novels from the 1930s. Beyond such “stereotypes of reception” (Nicole Schaenzler) and in addition to the results of the individual text analyses, the investigation gives new insights into Klaus Mann’s early narrative work, highlighting that Herman Bang and André Gide were more important literary role models for him than Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann. Even his early prose work, which seems neo-romantic and non-contemporary at first glance, conveys a surprisingly clear criticism of society as well as presenting plenty of utopian images. This explains his growing interest in the philosophy of Ernst Bloch since 1927 and the personal connection between the two authors until the end of the 1930s. In fact, the engagement with Bloch (which is the subject of an excursus in this study) was very important to Klaus Mann’s artistic self-image before and after the turning point in 1933. This underlines the hitherto neglected thematic and poetological continuity between his early days and exile writings under the sign of concrete utopia.

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Created: 2021Issued: 2022-07-04Updated: 2022-09-01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17192/z2021.0511
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Fachbereich Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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ger
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Vor dem LebenTraum des verlorenen Sohnes von der HeimkehrHerman Bangcrisis awarenessSpielende Kinderfrühe Werkeearly worksErnst BlochKlaus MannKrisenbewusstsein
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KriseExpressionismusSehnsuchtDer fromme TanzKindernovelleWeimarer RepublikDie JungenMann, KlausNeoromantikFrühwerk
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830
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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https://open.uni-marburg.de/handle/10.17192/z2021.0511
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Brühl, Christian: Sehnsucht und Krisenbewusstsein. Studien zum frühen Erzählwerk Klaus Manns (1924–1926). Mit einem Exkurs zur Verbindung zwischen Klaus Mann und Ernst Bloch in den Weimarer Jahren und der Exilzeit. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2022-07-04. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2021.0511.

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