V. Neue Politische Und/Oder Kulturelle Orientierung in Frankreich, USA, Deutschland Und China Margot Taureck

V. Neue Politische Und/Oder Kulturelle Orientierung in Frankreich, USA, Deutschland Und China Margot Taureck

V. Neue politische und/oder kulturelle Orientierung in Frankreich, USA, Deutschland und China Margot Taureck Dem Schicksal ausgeliefert: Walter Hasenclevers Exilwerke Münchhausen, Irrtum und Leidenschaft und Die Rechtlosen One of the authors whose work was staged most frequently in Germany between 1913 and 1932, Walter Hasenclever turned to pacifism after World War I. He continued to be celebrated as a political poet and a representative of Expressionism even after he had liberated himself from the illusion that a writer can have real influence on politics. His disengagement was particularly noticeable during his exile in France from 1934 onward. As he feared for his life in exile, he completely retired from public activity. From then on, he was interested above all in the “bare” human being who follows his own special laws no matter what the current political conditions. For him, the “necessity of reality” turned out to be a permanent personal adventure, and he became a “metaphysician of suffering and redemption”. He tried to find this redemp- tion in the mysticism of Swedenborg and Buddhist Karma, subjects he had been preoc- cupied with since the beginning of the twenties. It was only during the last years of his life that, encircled by a feeling of homelessness, Walter Hasenclever finally began to write in prose. In his novel Irrtum und Leidenschaft (Error and Passion) he perceived that he only had one more year to live. There he describes his planned suicide in a cool and prosaic way. As the German troops approached the internment camp of ‘Les Milles’, he decided to turn this plan into reality on June 22, 1940. “Ich werde am Ende dieser Zeit beweisen können, daß ich nicht umsonst gelebt habe. Ich bin endlich zur Prosa gelangt” – so Walter Hasenclever in einem Brief vom 29. August 1938 an seinen Bruder Paul.1 Der vorliegende Beitrag entspringt einer langjährigen Beschäftigung mit dem Journalisten und Schriftsteller Friedrich Sieburg und dessen schillern- der opportunistischer Haltung während des Dritten Reiches. Zu Sieburgs Freundeskreis zählten in den Zwanziger Jahren auch Kurt Tucholsky, Rudolf 1 Walter Hasenclever: Ich hänge, leider, noch am Leben. Briefwechsel mit dem Bruder. Hg. von Bert Kasties. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1997. S. 86. Der vorliegende Bei- trag stützt sich in wesentlichen Teilen auf: Walter Hasenclever:Ausgewählte Werke in fünf Bänden. Hg. von Bert Kasties. Aachen: Shaker Verlag 2003–2005; Walter Hasenclever: Briefe 1907–1940. Hg. von Bert Kasties in Zusammenarbeit mit Dieter Breuer. Mainz: v. Hase und Koehler 1994; sowie folgende Veröffentlichungen: Bert Kasties:Walter Hasenclever. Eine Biographie der deutschen Moderne. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1994; Dieter Breuer (Hg.): Walter Hasenclever 1890–1940. Ausstellung zu Leben und Werk. Aachen: Alano 1990 und 1996; Bert Kasties und Manfred Sicking (Hg.): Aachener machen Geschichte. Aachen: Shaker 1997; Miriam Raggan: Walter Hasenclever. Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Verlag Dr. H.A. Gerstenberg 1973; Bernhard F. Reiter: Walter Hasenclevers mystische Periode. Die Dramen der Jahre 1917–1925. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1997..

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