DEUTSCH-ÖSTERREICHISCHE HEIMAT: NS-LYRIK UND EXILLYRIK IM VERGLEICH
GERMAN-AUSTRIAN HOMELAND: NS-POETRY VERSUS POETRY OF EXILES - A COMPARISON

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this essay is to analyze and compare the language used in lyric poetry during the era of National Socialism in Germany and Austria. The two main fields of analysis are the rhetorical characteristics of poetry used by the proponents of the National Socialist movement to promote their fascist ideology, which is mainly based on terms like homeland or Germany. These words are also used by political opponents or people persecuted due to their race or origin, who had been forced to leave Germany. These exiled poets, like e.g. Bertolt Brecht, give a completely different meaning to terms like homeland. The different perception of these terms is being depicted in detail comparing the main representatives of both groups and contrasting some exemplary poems with each other.

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