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Article: Anna Seghers, Friedrich Wolf, and the Austrian civil war of 1934.
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Unlike the Anschluss of March 1938, which moved many prominent writers to an almost immediate reaction, Chancellor Dollfuss's crushing of the short but bloody Socialist counter-revolution of February 1934 went virtually unrecorded in Austrian literature. One reason may be that the assassination of Dollfuss himself followed so soon afterwards; equally, however, the Right-wing politics of such authors as Heimito von Doderer, Joseph Roth, and Franz Werfel may explain their silence at the savage end to constitutional government in Austria. Even Karl Kraus, from whom much might have been expected, had lent his support to Dollfuss's clerical-fascist regime, believing it the only ...