„Und hätte man gleich den letzten Rassejuden aus der Welt geschafft“. Überblick und bisher Verborgenes zu Heimito von Doderers Antisemitismus.

Abstract

“And if the last racial Jew had been eliminated from the world”: Overview and previously hiddeninformation on Heimito von Doderer’s anti-Semitism.The article provides an overview of the anti-Semitism of the Austrian novelist Heimito vonDoderer (1896–1966). It presents his anti-Semitic novel project ›The Demons of the Ostmark‹,which was pursued in the 1930s, and shows problematic passages in texts after 1945 as well. Inaddition, explanations for also recognizable philo-Semitic traces are sought. A reading of the asyet unpublished ›Speech about the Jews‹ (1936) provides explosive results.