Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Heinrich Mann and the Struggle for Democracy
- 2 Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic
- 3 In Defense of Reason and Justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's Historical Novels of the Weimar Republic
- 4 The Case of Jakob Wassermann: Social, Legal, and Personal Crises in the Weimar Republic
- 5 Signs of the Times: Joseph Roth's Weimar Journalism
- 6 Ernst Jünger, the New Nationalists, and the Memory of the First World War
- 7 Innocent Killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar Anti-War Novels
- 8 In “A Far-Off Land”: B. Traven
- 9 Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic
- 10 Radical Realism and Historical Fantasy: Alfred Döblin
- 11 Vicki Baum: “A First-Rate Second-Rate Writer”?
- 12 Hans Fallada's Literary Breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and Kleiner Mann — was nun?
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
9 - Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Heinrich Mann and the Struggle for Democracy
- 2 Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic
- 3 In Defense of Reason and Justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's Historical Novels of the Weimar Republic
- 4 The Case of Jakob Wassermann: Social, Legal, and Personal Crises in the Weimar Republic
- 5 Signs of the Times: Joseph Roth's Weimar Journalism
- 6 Ernst Jünger, the New Nationalists, and the Memory of the First World War
- 7 Innocent Killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar Anti-War Novels
- 8 In “A Far-Off Land”: B. Traven
- 9 Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic
- 10 Radical Realism and Historical Fantasy: Alfred Döblin
- 11 Vicki Baum: “A First-Rate Second-Rate Writer”?
- 12 Hans Fallada's Literary Breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and Kleiner Mann — was nun?
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Summary
The writings of journalist and novelist Gabriele Tergit during the Weimar Republic exhibit a powerful urge to chart and evaluate the conflicts arising from shifting social and cultural values and from contemporary economic and political instability. Although Tergit wrote feuilletons (subjective impressions), travel reports, and reviews, her main focus as a journalist during the Weimar Republic was reporting from the law courts at Moabit in Berlin, because she felt they offered her insight into the essence of the age: “Moabit ist seit einigen Jahren Quelle für die Erkenntnis der Zeit” (For some years now, Moabit has been the source for understanding our time). It is in these civil and criminal trials that conflicts of shifting social values are thrown into sharp relief, where some resolution must be sought for the aftermath of political turmoil, and where both poverty and the desire to take full advantage of the new opportunities in the Weimar Republic spill over into theft, fraud, and murder. The question of an appropriate response to a crisis-ridden modern age is also at the heart of Tergit's first novel, Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (Cheesebeer Conquers the Kurfürstendamm, 1931).
Better Late than Never: Biographical Overview
Gabriele Tergit's success was at its height during the Weimar Republic. In her autobiography, she refers to her time as legal correspondent for the left-liberal newspaper Berliner Tageblatt from 1925 until 1933 as her seven years of plenty.
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- German Novelists of the Weimar RepublicIntersections of Literature and Politics, pp. 193 - 210Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006