Thomas Mann's Antifascist Radio Addresses, 1940-1945 (eBook)

Listen, Germany!

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2025
216 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-707-9 (ISBN)

Infos

First complete English translation of Mann's uncannily insightful wartime anti-Nazi radio addresses, once again urgently topical in the context of the current worldwide rise of anti-democratic movements.Upon Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the great German writer Thomas Mann, 1929 Nobel Prize laureate on the strength of his monumental novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, chose exile, eventually moving to the United States in 1938. An early critic of National Socialism, he gave over 150 public lectures with titles such as "e;The Coming Victory of Democracy."e; From 1940 to 1945, he authored and narrated a series of anti-Nazi radio addresses that were broadcast to Germany by the BBC; German listeners risked severe punishment.Mann's radio addresses constitute his most sustained contribution to the Allied war effort. In them, he comments on the progress of the war, contrasts fascism with democracy, measures Hitler against Roosevelt, and counters German propaganda with international consensus, lies with facts. After initially encouraging the Germans to resist the Nazi regime, Mann prepares them for the consequences of defeat, but also instills hope in them for future reconciliation with the community of nations.Today, when democracy is again endangered in much of the world, Mann's antifascist radio addresses have once again acquired urgency. This edition presents for the first time English translations of all of Mann's 58 radio addresses, with a foreword by Mann's grandson Frido Mann, an introduction by leading Mann scholar Hans Rudolf Vaget, careful annotations and a selection of photographs.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Foreword: Thomas Mann's Listen, Germany!-Today an Appeal to the World
Frido Mann
Illustrations
Introduction: Thomas Mann's War on Fascism
Hans Rudolf Vaget
Foreword to the Book Edition of 1943
Thomas Mann
Translators' Note
Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen
The Addresses
October 1940
November 1940
December 1940
February 1941
March 1941
April 1941
Mai 1941
June 1941
July 1941
August 1941
August 1941 (Special Broadcast)
September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
24 December 1941 (Special Broadcast)
December 1941
January 1942
February 1942
March 1942
April 1942 (Special Broadcast)
April 1942
May 1942
June 1942
July 1942
August 1942
27 September 1942
Address to Americans of German Descent [15 October 1942]
24 October 1942
29 November 1942
27 December 1942
[15 January 1943]
24 January 1943
23 February 1943
28 March 1943
25 April 1943
25 May 1943
[27 June 1943]
27 July 1943
29 August 1943
29 September 1943
30 October 1943
9 December 1943
31 December 1943
30 January 1944
28 February 1944
28 March 1944
[1 May 1944]
29 May 1944
1 January 1945
14 January 1945
16 January 1945
[31 January 1945]
[16 February 1945]
[4 March 1945]
20 March 1945
5 April 1945
19 April 1945
10 May 1945
[8 November 1945]
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
• Übersetzer: Elaine Chen, Jeffrey L. High, Hans Rudolf Vaget
• Vorwort: Frido Mann
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Schlagworte: 1940-1945 • antifascist • Anti-Nazi • BBC • Democracy vs Fascism • exile • Hitler • National Socialism • Radio Addresses • Roosevelt • Thomas Mann • wartime broadcasts
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-707-0 / 1805437070
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-707-9 / 9781805437079