This study explores Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking', as it is expressed in the author's disparate and voluminous writings on literature. Böll's work in this field is situated in the ...multi-faceted context of social, political, and cultural developments in post-war Germany, and is shown to be an important adjunct to the novels and stories which were honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature. An understanding of Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking' can illuminate the writer's fiction in an intriguing way. In particular, Böll's defence of the 'rationality of poetry' raises issues which reverberate in continuing debates on the social validity of literature.
This article presents an analysis of three works of non-fiction by Heinrich Böll, all addressing the question of German guilt for the Holocaust and all appearing between 1956 and 1960. The argument ...is that Böll favoured open public discussion of the Holocaust, but that his view was also complex and ambivalent. Especially at issue was whether ordinary Germans who suffered during the war should be counted as 'victims' alongside Jews and other specifically targeted by the Nazi regime. Böll tended to insist on this comparison, but was also vexed by the issue, as he was by the problem of postwar German-Jewish personal contact.
When I look at a map of Israel, the vulnerable borders, the smallness compared to your enemies, something tugs at my heart. I start to fear, I start to fear." Heinrich Boell, winner of the Nobel ...Prize for Literature, said at his arrival to Haifa Port. Photo shows: Heinrich Boell, Nobel Prize winner (Centre) on his arrival at Haifa Port. He was flanked as he left the ship by the West German Hon. Consul in Haifa, Mr. Kiesler and the German Ambassador Jesco von Puttkamer".
המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני
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When I look at a map of Israel, the vulnerable borders, the smallness compared to your enemies, something tugs at my heart. I start to fear, I start to fear." Heinrich Boell, winner of the Nobel ...Prize for Literature, said at his arrival to Haifa Port. Photo shows: Heinrich Boell, Nobel Prize winner (Centre) on his arrival at Haifa Port. He was flanked as he left the ship by the West German Hon. Consul in Haifa, Mr. Kiesler and the German Ambassador Jesco von Puttkamer".
המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני
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When I look at a map of Israel, the vulnerable borders, the smallness compared to your enemies, something tugs at my heart. Photo shows: Heinrich Boell, Nobel Prize winner on his arrival at Haifa ...Port. His son, Vinente, is living in Jerusalem for a time and works as a volunteere in a Centre for blind people.
המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני
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When I look at a map of Israel, the vulnerable borders, the smallness compared to your enemies, something tugs at my heart. Photo shows: Heinrich Boell, Nobel Prize winner on his arrival at Haifa ...Port. His son, Vinente, is living in Jerusalem for a time and works as a volunteere in a Centre for blind people.
המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני
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