The Fox Fables. Otto Michael Knab's Literary Critique of Nazism

Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature

2018

Review of The End, the final part of the monumental novel series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

German Studies Review, Vol. 33, Nr. 2 (May 2010): 262-84, 2010

In no other country under German occupation during World War II was clandestine (resistance) literature more published than in the Netherlands. Although the aesthetic quality of these books is generally poor, clandestine literature represents a unique perspective on the reaction by the Dutch resistance against Nazi propaganda. Particularly interesting is Albert Helman’s study of the German national character in his Tarnschrift in the form of a German literary history entitled "Aldus Sprak Zarathustra" (1944).

Kári Driscoll, Eva Hoffmann (Eds.): What Is Zoopoetics. Texts, Bodies, Entanglement. Basingstoke 2018, S. 81–100., 2018

Central European History, 2010

1998

In: Piotr Dyczek (ed.), Acta of the International Conference Wykno, Poland, 18-22 November 1995, NOVENSIA 10, 1998, 211-230.

Esprit Createur 2017

This article reconsiders the power of myth in light of the rise of neo-fascist or new fascist leaders who cast a shadow on the contemporary political scene. Taking its starting point from Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s seminal essay, “The Nazi Myth,” the article offers a genealogy of the affective and infective power of myth rooted in the ancient problematic of mimesis. It argues that stepping back to texts central to the rise of the Nazi movement like Alfred Rosenberg’s The Myth of the 20th Century can help us diagnose what Nietzsche calls the representational (or Apollonian) and affective (or Dionysian) power of mythic mimesis, a mimetic power that is currently reloaded by apprentice presidents with (new) fascist aspirations in need of unmasking operations.