Variationen des Diener-Typus bei Ludwig Winder und Ernst Weiß
| Title in English | Variations of the Servant Stereotype in Texts by Ludwig Winder and Ernst Weiss |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Regionalforschung zur Literatur der Moderne, vol. 22 |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | stereotype; servant; alterity; Czech; German literature; Prague; Moravia |
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| Description | The aim of the paper is to describe the nature of fictional characters in selected stories and novels by Ludwig Winder and Ernst Weiss based on nation stereotypes. These characters are marked as Czechs (Bohemian, Moravian, Slavic) and as far as their personalities are concerned, they appear to be connected to the stereotype of the Czech servant which was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Weiss and Winder, German Moravian authors of high artistic quality, however, do not use the stereotype in order to sharpen it but nonetheless they employ it for artistic purposes. To make this possible, they use various strategies, such as splitting the contents of the stereotype in more characters to show possibilities of overcoming it, or they put the stereotype in unusual settings to soften it. The paper tries to analyze some of these strategies. |