Die Familie in Georg K. Glasers ‚Geheimnis und Gewalt‘ vor dem geschichtlichen Hintergrund

Abstract

The article focuses on the aspect of family in the period after the First World War as portrayed in Georg K. Glaser’s novel Secret and Violence (Geheimnis und Gewalt). The novel depicts the division of a family caused by the brutality of the father, who has returned from the war and has become completely estranged from his family. The paper finds a parallel between the plot of the novel and the political and social events that unfolded in Germany during the first half of the 20th century, which split society and thus often caused a complete alienation among people. In the novel, the Weimar Republic is presented as a battleground of progressive and radically ideological forces, whose success the study seeks to elucidate.