Heinrich Mann
Paperback | Pages: 494 pages Rating: 3.8 | 3025 Users | 74 Reviews
Identify Books As Der Untertan (Das Kaiserreich #1)
| Original Title: | Der Untertan |
| ISBN: | 3596136407 (ISBN13: 9783596136407) |
| Edition Language: | German |
| Series: | Das Kaiserreich #1 |
| Characters: | Diederich Heßling |
| Setting: | Netzig,1880(Germany) Berlin,1890(Germany) |
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"Hurraahhhh!!! Da kommt der Kaiser!!!" Diederich Heßling, ein ewig deutsches Thema. Kurt Tucholsky brachte es wie immer auf den Punkt, als er Heinrich Manns Roman über den Aufstieg eines Erzopportunisten als "Herbarium des deutschen Mannes" bezeichnete. "Hier ist er ganz -- in seiner Religiosität, seiner Erfolgsanbeterei und namenlosen Zivilfeigheit".Der Untertan, die Geschichte Diederich Heßlings, in jungen Jahren von einem drakonisch strafenden Vater und einer saumseligen Mutter großgezogen, anschließend weiter zurechtgeschliffen im Schul- und Militärdrill der wilhelminischen Ära, gerät bei Heinrich Mann zum Fallbeispiel deutscher Katzbuckelei und Tyrannenmentalität, die sich Macht und Gewaltstrukturen unterwirft, um letztlich an ihnen teilhaben zu dürfen. Heßling, vordergründig als Aufsteiger gefeiert, übernimmt die väterliche Papierfabrik und wird zum mächtigsten Bürger der fiktiven Kleinstadt Netzig. In seiner Mimikri geht er dabei soweit, neben der chauvinistischen Phrasendrescherei der Deutschnationalen auch noch das äußere Erscheinungsbild des Kaisers zu imitieren. Eine "Bilderbuchkarriere", wie sie nur durch "ein Sinken der Menschenwürde unter jedes bekannte Maß" zustande kommen konnte, wie Heinrich Mann in einem Brief von 1906 festhielt.
Mention Containing Books Der Untertan (Das Kaiserreich #1)
| Title | : | Der Untertan (Das Kaiserreich #1) |
| Author | : | Heinrich Mann |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 494 pages |
| Published | : | September 7th 1997 by Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag (first published 1918) |
| Categories | : | Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Fiction. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 3025 Users | 74 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Der Untertan (Das Kaiserreich #1)
Stylistically, it is as dry as could be. The novel moves very slowly and there are virtually no likable characters nor are there interesting plot devices. At times it is quite moralistic, though when considering the subject-matter (the Imperial German society that paved the way for Hitler's bureaucratically realized atrocities), I wonder if such an approach is not uncalled for. With regard to content, it is a fascinating look at Wilhelmine society as reflected by the impossibly vain, egotisticThe Child is father to the Man (view spoiler)[https://poets.org/poem/my-heart-leaps (hide spoiler)]The Untertan (view spoiler)[translated with a variety of titles in English because the literal unmeaning of the Subject is a little ambiguous, in this case the main character is chiefly defined by their relationship to the German Emperor that of (view spoiler)[ over? or excessively (hide spoiler)] loyal or devoted subject of the Emperor. This is not a novel about grammar as in verb, subject, object
Man of Straw -- also translated as The Loyal Subject -- is a razor-sharp take-down of the upper middle class buffoons who fervently supported Kaiser Wilhelm --the same type of power-worshipping nativists who later embraced the Third Reich. The subject in question is Diederich Hessling, who spends his college years swilling beer with his frat brothers in their exclusive secret society, the "Neo-Teutons" (ha!), and avoiding any type of intellectual pursuits, while challenging anyone and everyone
review of Heinrich Mann's Little Superman by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - January 9, 2012 I learned about this author in the course of research for my movie Robopaths. I learned that his bks were burned by the nazis so I decided to read something by him & to check out any movies that might've been based on any bks by him. This lead me to taking Little Superman out from the library as well as the movie The Kaiser's Lackey as well as to my buying a used copy of the novel Man of Straw. &,
The Child is father to the Man (view spoiler)[https://poets.org/poem/my-heart-leaps (hide spoiler)]The Untertan (view spoiler)[translated with a variety of titles in English because the literal unmeaning of the Subject is a little ambiguous, in this case the main character is chiefly defined by their relationship to the German Emperor that of (view spoiler)[ over? or excessively (hide spoiler)] loyal or devoted subject of the Emperor. This is not a novel about grammar as in verb, subject, object
So far, Diederich is a very interesting contrast of one person. one might even say he is somewhat bi-polar in his actions. Took me a while to find this book as I am reading it under the new title of "The Loyal Subject."
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