Instrumentelle Indienstnahme, stereotype Sinnstiftung: Konstellationen des literarischen Antisemitismus in der Literatur der DDR.

Abstract

Instrumentalization and stereotypical sensemaking: Constellations of literary anti-Semitism in EastGerman literature.The article explores constellations of literary anti-Semitism in the literature of the GDR, focusingon depictions of the National Socialist extermination of the Jews. Using Bruno Apitz’snovella ›Esther‹ and Rolf Schneider’s folk play ›Die Geschichte vom Moischele‹ as examples,forms of instrumentalization and stereotyping of the Jewish are examined.