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Tables of Contents for Journey of No Return
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Note on Sources
ix
Introduction
1
14
PART ONE: The Flight of Intellectuals
Departure...
15
20
The King of Critics
17
3
Alfred Kerr
The Poet as Outsider
20
3
Max Herrmann-Neiße
A Writer of Conviction
23
4
Karl Otten
With the Pens of Others
27
4
Robert Neumann
The World's Most Translated Living Author
31
4
Stefan Zweig
...and Arrival
35
62
PART TWO: The Waiting Room (1933--1936)
The Cultural Context
38
5
`Miles away from Politics'
43
20
Stefan Zweig
Lost in Translation
63
11
Robert Neumann
`My Life is ever Emptier'
74
14
Max Herrmann-Neiße
`An Irreproachable and Harmless Young Man of 67 Years'
88
9
Alfred Kerr
PART THREE: Isolation or Integration (1936--1939)
Aspects of Appeasement
97
42
The Shadow of Spain
102
16
Karl Otten
Living `from Miracle to Miracle'
118
8
Alfred Kerr
`Monologue on a Foreign Stage'
126
13
Max Herrmann-Neiße
The End of Austria
139
20
The Burden of Success
142
9
Stefan Zweig
An Expert in Survival
151
8
Robert Neumann
Peace in Our Time
159
9
PART FOUR: Enemy Aliens (1939--41)
The Phoney War and Internment
168
27
`Concentration Camp, English Style': Robert Neumann's Internment Diary
174
10
The World of Yesterday
184
5
`Quietly and Inconspicuously'
189
6
`Doing Their Bit' -- German Writers at the BBC
195
12
`Marching On': Karl Otten as Scriptwriter
197
6
`Serving the Cause': Alfred Kerr and the BBC
203
4
PART FIVE: No Man's Land (1941--45)
Writers without Language
207
22
Death of a European
209
7
Metamorphosis: The Making of an `English' Author
216
7
The Limits of Cultural Mobility
223
6
Alfred Kerr
`After the War is Over...'
229
26
Thoughts on Germany
231
16
Free Austria
247
8
PART SIX: Return Journey
`Once an Emigre, Always an Emigre': the Reception of Exile Literature in Post-War Germany
255
12
Notes
267
23
Bibliography
290
11
Index
301