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While forms of a “new-nobility (
Neuadel
) discourse” arise and are discussed in the German cultural landscape of the early twentieth century, concepts of
exclusiveness
and
inclusiveness
are constantly aestheticized in German literature until the middle of the century by means of a renewed aristocratic semantics. In different ways, both Thomas Mann’s novel
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers
[
Felix Krull, Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man
] (1954) and Ernst Wiechert’s novel
Das einfache Leben
[
The Simple Life
] (1939) show that aristocratic, noble protagonists attain a considerable new significance in modern literature via their connection to specific historical contexts as well as to a putative timelessness.