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Even if the title of Wolfgang Koeppen's last novel, "Der Tod in Rom", alludes quite obviously to Thomas Mann's novella, "Der Tod in Venedig", Koeppen's text must be understood first and foremost as a response to Mann's most controversial novel, "Doktor Faustus". The novels of Mann and Koeppen rank among the most well-known literary examinations of National Socialism but stand in a complementary relation to each other. "Doktor Faustus", published in 1947, analyses the cultural and intellectual origins of German fascism, while "Der Tod in Rom", published only seven years later in 1954, criticizes the continuity of National Socialist ideologies in post-war Germany. Both authors focus their analyses of fascism on fictional avant-garde composers who seem at first glance detached from any political context. [.] The actual starting point of Florian Trabert's paper, however, is the fact that both novels are preceded by epigraphs taken from Dante's "Inferno". Trabert begins by commenting on the references to Dante in "Doktor Faustus" and then continues by analysing the allusions to the "Commedia" in Koeppen's novel, which constitute, as Trabert demonstrates, a complex constellation among the three texts.

Even if the title of Wolfgang Koeppen's last novel, Der Tod in Rom, alludes quite obviously to Thomas Mann's novella, Der Tod in Venedig, Koeppen's text must be understood first and foremost as a response to Mann's most controversial novel, Doktor Faustus. The novels of Mann and Koeppen rank among the most well-known literary examinations of National Socialism but stand in a complementary relation to each other. Doktor Faustus, published in 1947, analyses the cultural and intellectual origins of German fascism, while Der Tod in Rom, published only seven years later in 1954, criticizes the continuity of National Socialist ideologies in post-war Germany. Both authors focus their analyses of fascism on a fictional avant-garde composer who seems at first glance detached from any political context. Doktor Faustus is the fictional biography of the composer Adrian Leverkühn, written by his friend Serenus Zeitblom in the last years of the Second World War. Leverkühn agrees to a pact with the devil, symbolically confirmed by the composer's syphilitic infection; through this pact, Leverkühn tries to overcome the crisis of modern music. The conception of the novel is based, as the author himself has emphasized, on 'die Parallelisierung verderblicher, in den Collaps mündender Euphorie mit dem fascistischen Völkerrausch'. By contrast, Siegfried Pfaffrath, the fictive composer of Koeppen's novel, understands his avant-garde compositions as a form of resistance against the reactionary climate in the economically booming post-war Germany. These reactionary tendencies are embodied by Siegfried's parents, who are trying, less than ten years after the end of the war, to repatriate their relative Gottlieb Judejahn, a former SS general and wanted war criminal. The actual starting point of my paper, however, is the fact that both novels are preceded by mottos taken from Dante's Inferno. I will begin by commenting on the references to Dante in Doktor Faustus and then continue by analysing the allusions to the Commedia in Koeppen's ...

Comicadaptionen literarischer Texte haben sich in den letzten Jahren als enorm produktive Kunstform etabliert. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von eng an die literarische Vorlage angelehnten Umsetzungen bis zu Adaptionen, die den Prätext hochgradig verfremden. Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren die für Literaturcomics charakteristischen Transformationsprozesse, die sich sehr dynamisch gestalten. Der medial bedingten Reduktion der literarischen Vorlage auf textueller Ebene steht die Erweiterung um eine visuelle Dimension gegenüber, die neben comicspezifischen Gestaltungsmitteln auch Motive und Verfahren der bildenden Kunst und des Films einbezieht

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Einleitung: Alter(n) in der Populärkultur -- Alter(n) im Film -- No Country for Old Men: -- Filmische Tragikomödien über Demenz: -- Zwischen seniler Komik und Desillusionierung: -- Alter(n) in Fernsehserien -- »Revenge is the best revenge«: -- »Face to face«: -- Age – the final frontier? -- Zwischen Zeitreisen, Zukunftsvisionen und außerirdischer Technologie: -- Verhandlungen des Populären: -- Alter(n) im Comic -- »Jeder wehrt sich gegen die Zeit«: -- »Ich bleibe hier«: -- Alter(n) in Literatur und Hörspiel -- Sind Hexen wirklich alte Frauen? -- ›Alter Schwede!‹ -- »Ich war ein Sack voller vergammelnder Träume«: -- Die Sprache des Alters: