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“Transzendental heimatlos”. Zum kultur- und sozialgeschichtlichen Ort literarischer Hotels in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts

  • Bettina Matthias
Published/Copyright: August 11, 2005
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From the journal Volume 40 Issue 1

Abstract

Hotels were a favorite setting in early twentieth-century German prose. Drawing on theories by sociologists Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, and Siegfried Kracauer, the paper sketches the sociocultural conditions under which hotels became a meeting place for a growing segment of society. As a symbol of life’s commercialization and the increasing anonymity of social communication, the hotel emerges as a setting par excellence to observe and study in fiction the relationship between individual and society. In texts by the modernist writers Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, and Stefan Zweig the semi-anonymous space of the hotel has a special impact on female characters.

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Online erschienen: 2005-08-11
Erschienen im Druck: 2005-07-20

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