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"Diederich und sein Prolet”. Zur judenfeindlichen Markierung Napoleon Fischers in Heinrich Manns Untertan

Reichen, Roland

In: Neophilologus, 2009, vol. 93, no. 1, p. 123-148

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    Titre
    • "Diederich und sein Prolet”. Zur judenfeindlichen Markierung Napoleon Fischers in Heinrich Manns Untertan
    Auteur
    • Reichen, Roland. Institut für Germanistik, Universität Bern, Länggass-Str. 49, 3000, Bern 9, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:311680
    Summary
    In the few existing studies on Jewish characters in Heinrich Mann's narratives, the novel Der Untertan, written between 1912 and 1914, is cited as evidence that by this time, the author had overcome the blatant antisemitism expressed in his early essays. Yet an analysis of the social democrat Napoleon Fischer, a character neglected in the studies mentioned, contradicts this assumption: With his black skin and beard, his deformed arms and legs, his affinity to betrayal and falseness and his craving for power, Fischer bears the marks of a traditional ‹dangerous Jew', thereby confirming the notion of social democracy being a ‹party of Jews'