Abstract
Heinrich B11l's reception in West Germany seems to offer a confusing and contradictory image: on the one hand, an astonishing popularity reflected in the increasing number of editions and, following the rules of cultural schizophrenia, a corresponding arrogant and skeptical reception on the part of the cultural elite and the literary supplements of the national newspapers. On the other hand, the proliferating indictments of B611 by the masscirculated Springer Press and the rather cautious defense by liberal reviewers. Naturally qualifications must be made for the critiques of individual works. The tendency of the fronts, however, remains within the bounds of these contradictions, emerging even more explicitly as a result of the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1972. This award caused a dilemma for the reactionary press, similar to the time when Willy Brandt won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
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