Published: 22025-05-09 — Updated on 2025-05-10

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Crossing borders in political communication. New objective and ethnic-National Socialist literarization of the conflict between democratic state and economic interests of the rural rural people

Andrea Rudolph
Germanistische Werkstatt
Section: Literary Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5852

Abstract

The economic situation of German and European farmers is currently one of the top topics, not just
in daily newspapers and news. The article first reflects on the communication design in historical and current
farmers’ demonstrations, and then places Hans Fallada’s novel Bauern, Bomben, Bonzen (1931) in the historical
context of the rural people‘s movement. The article then compares the semantic meaning of “substance” in
Hans Fallada’s farmer’s novel with Max Geißler’s farmer’s novel Schollentreue. Der rote Feind im Waldhof
(1929). This is intended to enable a context-sensitive assignment of the works of Fallada and Max Geißler to
the literary-historical development of the first decades of the 20th century.

Keywords:

Hans Fallada, Max Geißler, political peasant demonstrations, Weimar Republic New Objectivity, blood and soil literature

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Rudolph, A. (2025). Crossing borders in political communication. New objective and ethnic-National Socialist literarization of the conflict between democratic state and economic interests of the rural rural people. Germanistische Werkstatt, (13), 121–135. https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5852 (Original work published May 9, 2025)
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