Der Einbruch der Transzendenz: Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) als literarische Durchführung der Theologie der Krise
This contribution interprets Döblin 's Berlin Alexanderplatz as a novel which rejlects the apparent hopelessness of the social experience of crisis in the story of Franz Biberkopf. The individual Franz Biberkopf becomes the example of a man who not only fails because of social circumstances but...
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| Language: | German |
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Lit-Verlag
2013
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| Summary: | This contribution interprets Döblin 's Berlin Alexanderplatz as a novel which rejlects the apparent hopelessness of the social experience of crisis in the story of Franz Biberkopf. The individual Franz Biberkopf becomes the example of a man who not only fails because of social circumstances but also because of overestimating his moral and political abilities. However, just as he seems to be running out of options, his life takes a surprising turn. Döblin depicts this as a religious salvation experience. In doing so, he realizes the core idea of theology in the 1920s through literature. The threat of the Weimar Republic by totalitarian ideologies and their promises of salvation were thus confronted with a religious alternative. In the end, Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz presents the eschatological expectation of the redemptive break-in of transcendence, of the redeeming coming of a god. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 121 |
| ISBN: | 3643104995 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15496/publikation-36703 HDL: 10900/95320 |