"Der beste und lebendigste Hasser" : Joseph Roths Antipathie und deren Hintergründe
Lughofer, Johann Georg
Even in exile Joseph Roth stood out as "the best hater", as Irmgard Keun described him. His intense antipathy was not only directed against Nazis; rather, in emotional terms it was a generalized ...antipathy against Prussians and Germans. This is particularly surprising, since in his works he speaks out against stereotypes and generalizations. He even declares the idea of determining a "national character" to be illegitimate. In light of this, Roth's attitude towards the Germans and how he portrays them in his work must be analyzed as the consequence of an emotional hatred. His hatred seems to be based on the long and unrequited love he had felt for the German culture. A native of Galicia, in his home region Roth defended the German culture that was on the decline. And yet in Vienna he did not feel truly accepted, and he felt even less accepted in Berlin. In the nationalist and anti-Semitic environment of both German-speaking capitals, he became distanced from Germans and came up with a prophetic assessment of Germanyʼs political development. That his attitude to Germany is to be interpreted as the irrational emotion of hatred is also confirmed by the fact that Roth, from early on, used stereotypes of Germans and an enemy-friend pattern with regard to them.
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