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Undersåtten

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Gennem skildringen af lokalpolitiske og personlige intriger i en tysk lilleby i 1890'erne søger forfatteren at karakterisere og pege på farerne ved blind underkastelse og magtdyrkelse.

Man ved i Danmark alt for lidt om, hvad der gjorde det muligt for en Hitler at komme til magten i Tyskland. Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) vidste det allerede, da han i 1914 skrev sin roman "Undersåtten" - og fik offentliggørelsen standset, så den først så dagens lys i Weimar-republikkens år: Nationalsocialismen blev båret frem af den kombination af underdanighed og aggresivitet, der skabte småborgeren, for hvem den brune skjorte var som skræddersyet.

"Her er den tyske mand i sin helhed: i sin sygelige lyst til at befale og adlyde, i sin råhed og religiøsitet, i sin blinde succestilbedelse - og navnløse fejhed."

389 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1914

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Heinrich Mann

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A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.

Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist.

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