Abstract
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.
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