The literary space of Nazi Germany from the viewpoint of bestsellers

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K00500
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02040:European literature-related
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: Takeoka Kenichi 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域法文学系, 教授 (30216874)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: ナチス・ドイツ / 第三帝国 / ベストセラー / 文学空間 / 文学受容

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project selected the top 100 titles of bestsellers in the Nazi era based on the number of publications, classified these into 12 genres, and examined an overview and representative works of each genre. As a result, it has been revealed that there was a free and diverse space of literary reception in Germany at the time. This is because non-ideological works such as non-fiction, humor and amusement literature works account for three quarters of the 100 titles, and because these also include works of writers who are against the establishment as well as translations of writers of enemy nations.

Free Research Field

ドイツ文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、ベストセラーという新しい観点を交えて研究することによって、ナチス時代の文学を代表する著作が非イデオロギー的な作品であり、当時のドイツに自由で多様な文学受容の余地があったことを明らかにし、ナチズムと文学のかかわりに関する研究に、これまでの常識にとらわれない新たな局面を切り開いた。これらの成果は、関連する幅広い分野の研究に応用が可能であると同時に、ナチズムという社会的関心の高い問題の論究に資するものである。