My scholarly work continues to intersect in sometimes surprising ways with the questions and interests of my students, and so I would also like to express my thanks to them. Stein, and the staff at the Hunt Library my research on this book would have been far more difficult. Dick Tucker, the head of the Department of Modern Languages, has, as always, provided support and encouragement, as has John Lehoczky, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In particular I would like to thank my two colleagues in the German program, Christian Hallstein and Anne Green, who have continued to support me and to help the German program grow and thrive. At my own university, Carnegie Mellon, I owe thanks to a great many people.

I remember them not only with sadness, but also with great fondness and affection, and I am grateful for having had the opportunity to know them. I would like to express thanks to both of the Zantops, even after their deaths, for providing me with an excellent working and living space in 1999. It is outrageous and horrible that she was deprived of that chance.

I cannot help but remember the wish that Susanne expressed to me when she visited her Berlin apartment in 1999: that she would soon get a chance to spend real time there herself. The completion of this book is made much sadder than it should be by the untimely death of the Zantops in January of 2001. Both of them were leaders in their respective scholarly fields: Half as a geologist and Susanne in my own field, as a Germanist. I spent the year 1999 working at the Institut für Deutsche Literatur at Berlin’s Humboldt-Universität, and during that year I lived in a beautiful apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg that belonged to Half and Susanne Zantop. Claus and Erika Keiper lived through the zero hour itself as young people in northern Germany, and I am grateful to them for sharing their sometimes very difficult memories with me. In addition, I am grateful to Michael Markert in Leipzig, who helped me with research for parts of chapter seven, as well as with previous research and to Rita Wegner and Thorsten Hinz in Berlin, who have been a constant source of support and encouragement. My gratitude also goes to Christine Lubkoll, Ursula Heukenkamp, Ursula Reinhold, Leonore Krenzlin, and Helmuth Kiesel, who have all helped me in various ways during my visits to Germany.

I also owe a great debt of gratitude to Erhard Schütz, who has helped me in numerous ways with this project, particularly during several study visits I made to Berlin. WOULD LIKE to express my deep thanks to Frank Trommler, who first suggested to me a decade ago that I should investigate the culture of the German zero hour, and who has provided support and encouragement to me throughout the long process of work on this book. To the memory of my grandparents Sam and Betty Samuelson and Harry and Maria Brockmann The Writer, the Conscience, and Absolute Presence This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) PT405.B683 2004 830.9-dc22 2004004013 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Germany - Intellectual life-20th century.

Authors, German -20th century -Political and social views. Literature and society -Germany -History -20th century. German literature-20th century -History and criticism. (Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. German literary culture at the zero hour / Stephen Brockmann. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA and of Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK ISBN: 1–57113–298–8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brockmann, Stephen. First published 2004 by Camden House Camden House is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture Edited by James Hardin (South Carolina)Ĭopyright © 2004 Stephen Brockmann All Rights Reserved.

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