Vom Schutzwall zur Wall Street Ingo Schulzes Schelmenroman Peter Holtz, die Mauer und das System des Geldes

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https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/15473

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picaresque novel; Berlin Wall; global financial crisis; democracy; globalization; occupy

Abstract

In the years of the 2008 world financial crisis and of the global protests of the Occupy-Movement, the German author Ingo Schulze writes a novel about the German reunification, in which he tells the story of the ‘GDR-rogue’ Peter Holtz fighting for a fairer society. In this novel Schulze challenges the question of the democratic quality of the political and economic world order arisen at the historical moment of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Why does Schulze decide to write just a picaresque novel about the German reunification during the financial crisis after 2007? What is the additional value of this literary elaboration of the historical turning point of 1989? Why does money play such a significant role in this novel? The contribution expounds that Schulze retrospectively and critically retraces in his picaresque novel the way from the ‘anti-fascist rampart’ of the GDR to the moneycentred financial world of Wall Street. The article illustrates at the same time Schulze’s diagnosis according to which during the process of German reunification the West betrayed its own democratic values and against the background of the peaceful revolution in the GDR missed the historical chance to build a fairer future society.

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Biografia autore

Paolo Panizzo, Università degli Studi di Trieste

Paolo Panizzo Dr. phil., Ricercatore RTDb für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Triest, Promotion 2006 (Ästhetizismus und Demagogie. Der Dilettant in Thomas Manns Frühwerk, Würzburg 2007), Habilitation 2017 (Die heroische Moral des Nihilismus: Schiller und Alfieri, Berlin/Boston 2019). Forschungsschwerpunkte: Literarische Anthropologie, Ästhetik und Politik in den Kulturdebatten ab dem 18. Jahrhundert, Theater der europäischen Spätaufklärung, Dilettantismusproblematik im frühen 20. Jahrhundert, Aufklärung um 1900, deutsch-italienische Literaturbeziehungen.

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Pubblicato

2021-05-31

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Panizzo, Paolo. 2021. «Vom Schutzwall Zur Wall Street Ingo Schulzes Schelmenroman Peter Holtz, Die Mauer Und Das System Des Geldes». Altre Modernità, n. 25 (maggio):23-36. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/15473.