...Christoph Schaub Recent modernism studies have largely ignored the literature of the workers' movement. They perpetuate a historically influential dichotomy between modernism and workers' movement literature that can be traced back to the Weimar Republic. The article situates Anna Seghers's Revolt...

... into the center of its literary imagination. In works by Franz Jung, Anna Seghers, Egon Erwin Kisch, and many other authors, it imagined a transnational modernity from the (alleged) perspective(s) of proletarians and the global proletariat. This construction of transnational proletarian worlds through...

... University she published extensively on Anna Seghers and coedited the multivolume critical edition of Seghers’s works. We dedicate this issue to Helen’s memory. ...

... to largely conservative aesthetic and cultural presuppositions. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 postwar German culture Anna Seghers Willi Bredel Bertolt Brecht Hermann Hesse The Postwar Restoration in East and West Stephen Brockmann...

... refugees, including André Breton, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lion Feuchtwanger, Siegfried Kracauer, Max Ophüls, Heinrich Mann, Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, and Franz Werfel. See, e.g., Fry’s memoir, Surrender on Demand (1945; Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, in conjunction with the United...

... of his old friends and comrades Anna Seghers, Johannes R. Becher, and Ludwig Janka. 5 Lukács was repeatedly declared dead not merely by politicians but also by theoreticians: by Vladimir Lenin, who condemned him as a left-wing dissenter for his antiparliamentarism; by the Comintern philosopher...

... support of the communist regime by placing the “Workers of the World, Unite!” slogan in his store window?74 Already in June 1947, shortly after her return to Berlin, Anna Seghers contemplated a similar phenomenon in post- war Germany. She describes a baker who for ten years had exhibited in his...

... called Biermann a class enemy and worse. But PEN members Kant (who became head of the East German Writers’ Union in May 1978), Kamnitzer, and Seghers published far more restrained responses. Kamnitzer’s essay invoked the statue The Climbing Man by East German artist and PEN member Fritz Cremer...

.... Gladkov’s book suggested that it is in fact simpler to implement revolutionary political slogans than to transform the stubborn habits of everyday existence. At the moment when “the revolution is entering into its second phase, into revolutionary everyday life,” Anna Seghers wrote in a 1927 review...

... und Form 43 (1991): 429–86. 26 Müllerʼs Production Plays Umsiedlerin, the SED suppressed opposition not only by applying the coer- cive methods of the Stasi but also by appealing to the loyalty of intellectuals, like Weigel and Writers Union president Anna Seghers, to the idea...

... the mid-1950s. The counter- position to Lukács was articulated by Anna Seghers, Brecht, and Bloch, who already in the 1930s argued for modernism as a realism for the twentieth century. 5 5. For some of the key texts of this debate, see Ernst Bloch et al., Aesthetics and Politics (Lon- don...