Celebrity and the Cultural Nation.Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar

Maryann Piel
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Abstract Mann’s 1939 Goethe novel, Lotte in Weimar, is a valuable text through which to understand the role of celebrity in the literary and political landscape of the early 20th century. I explore the ways in which an engagement with the field of Celebrity Studies makes possible a reading of Mann’s Goethe as a palimpsest of the historical celebrity author, Mann, a 20th century celebrity author, and Hitler, Germany’s most famous politician in the media age. Mann’s own experiences in the spotlight, especially those gathered in his exile years, inform the social and familial relationships at the center of the novel. Furthermore, Mann takes an ironic stance towards the “Goethe Mythos,” thereby undermining the validity of the cult of genius and inviting a reading that recognizes its shared features with the cult of modern celebrity that made possible Hitler’s rise to power.
名人与文化民族。托马斯·曼在魏玛的乐天
曼1939年的歌德小说《魏玛的乐天》是一部有价值的文本,通过它可以理解名人在20世纪初文学和政治景观中的作用。我探索了与名人研究领域的接触如何使曼的歌德作为历史名人作家的重写成为可能,曼是20世纪的名人作家,希特勒是媒体时代德国最著名的政治家。曼在聚光灯下的个人经历,尤其是他流亡期间的经历,揭示了小说中心的社会和家庭关系。此外,曼恩对“歌德神话”采取了一种讽刺的立场,从而削弱了天才崇拜的有效性,并引发了一种认识到它与现代名人崇拜的共同特征的阅读,这种崇拜使希特勒有可能上台。
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