LEADER 03974ctm a2200385Ia 4500001 209156 005 20240621212328.0 008 100331s2009 xx b 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn670788869 035 209156 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PT747.D4 |bU73 2009 100 1 Urbaniak, Erick Francis. 245 10 Criminals and artists : |bdetecting the artist in German crime literature of the twentieth century / |cErick Francis Urbaniak. 264 0 |c2009. 300 ix, 211 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211). 520 My dissertation, Criminals and Artists: Detecting the Artist in German Crime Literature of the Twentieth Century, examines how German speaking authors of the twentieth century reflect upon their identity as artists through writing about criminals both real and fictional. Moreover, each case represents a response to a specific era. This project begins with Thomas Mann's crime novel Die Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Mann's work draws on a long, but rarely examined tradition of linking the criminal to the artist that stretches back to Plato and forward to Michel Foucault. Mann's novel establishes the nexus in which the artist and the criminal are united. Felix Krull, a confidence man, is a unique case because he is simultaneously a criminal deceiving society for one's personal gain, and an artist, performing a role for an audience like a masterful actor. This novel not only uncovers points of intersection for the criminal and the artist, but also reveals the surprising function the public/audience has in differentiating the two. This study also considers a little known and short-lived series of reports on contemporary criminal cases by a variety of authors called the Aussenseiter der Gesellschaft. Die Verbrechen der Gegenwart edited by Rudolf Leonhard. The specific volumes discussed are Der Mord am Polizeiagenten Blau by Eduard Trautner, Karl Otten's Der Fall Strauss, and Freiherr von Egloffstein by Thomas Schramek. This group is responding to the criminalization of the artist in the Weimar Republic which threatens their own personal freedom and livelihood. Interestingly, they discuss contemporary criminal cases without the aid of fiction to defend the freedom of speech and combat the labeling of artists as criminals. The artist and the criminal are also linked by seriality. An analysis of the fictional serial killer in Doron Rabinovici's novel Die Suche nach M, provides a new way to approach the main characters of the work which illuminates new insights to the process of identity formation and re-formation for the surviving generations of Jewish-Austrians living in Vienna in the decades following the Holocaust. Read alongside Rabinovici's short story "Ich schriebe Dir" and Mark Seltzer's Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture, this novel discovers the serial bahavior that authors might exhibit through writing. 530 Also available via the World Wide Web. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Detective and mystery stories, German |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 German fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Artists in literature. 650 0 Crime in literature. 856 41 |uhttps://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?6982305329471::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:82635 |zElectronic version from OhioLINK's ETD Center 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1697737031&sid=21&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 852 0 |bstacks |hPT747.D4 |iU73 2009 852 |bwww