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Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory

Long, Jonathan J.

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Hans Lebert’s Die Wolfshaut [The Wolf ’s Fell, 1960] and Gerhard Fritsch’s Fasching [Shrovetide, 1967] are powerful narratives that address the continued existence of the fascist mentality in 1950s rural Austria. Though both contain allusions to Germany’s racial war in Eastern Europe, neither of them deals explicitly with the Holocaust. Nevertheless, the status of the Nazi period within post-war Austrian collective memory is central to an understanding of both the novels themselves and their reception history. After situating the novels in the context of post-war Austria, I analyse them from the perspective of collective memory, before turning to the question of the texts’ reception and their position within Austrian literary history.

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Long, J. J. (2003). Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory. Austrian Studies, 11(1), 85-101

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2003-09
Deposit Date Apr 3, 2009
Publicly Available Date Apr 3, 2009
Journal Austrian Studies
Print ISSN 1350-7532
Publisher Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 1
Pages 85-101
Keywords Literature, Fascism, Nazism, Austria.
Publisher URL http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/aus/2003/00000011/00000001/art00006

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