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Add, Delete, Replace: The Revisionist Project of Workers' Poetry
Ist Teil von
The Germanic review, 2021-01, Vol.96 (1), p.67-86
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis Online
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Worker's poetry emerged within the working-class culture of the Wilhelmine Empire and maintained close ties to Social Democracy during the Weimar years. After 1933 well-known worker poets Heinrich Lersch and Max Barthel converted to National Socialism and rewrote earlier poems in line with Nazi discourses of Arbeitertum (translated as workerdom). Today their poetic revisionism offers a welcome opportunity for reconstructing the emotional qualities of workers' poetry, for probing its political investment in the notion of class and the myth of community, and for analyzing the hidden affinities between socialist, nationalist, and populist identifications organized through the overdetermined figure of the worker.