20. Jahrhundert: 1914-1945 | Erster Weltkrieg
The First World War in Literature
"Death donned the helmet. War reached for the torch. The apocalyptic horsemen took their horses from the stable. And fate stepped into the ant-hill of Europe with a heavy boot." Erich Kastner is drafted for military service in 1917 and returns with a lifelong heart condition. He is one of many authors to write about the era of the First World War and the immense suffering of soldiers and civilians alike. Edlef Köppen, Wilfred Owen, Stefan Zweig, Adrienne Thomas and Irmgard Keun are also among them. Our film recites excerpts from selected novels and poems.
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weapons technology, soldiers, enthusiasm for technology, annihilation, Wilfred Owen, Edlef Köppen, Higher Command, war machines, inferno, hand-to-hand combat, Ernst Jünger, raiding party’s, dead, wounded, military hospitals. Adrienne Thomas, nurse, convalesce leave, Richard Arlington, war experiences, censorship, newspapers, press, moral, Edith Wharton, propaganda, Karl Kraus, sensationalism, Germany, German Reich, Germans, Emperor, murderers, incendiaries, huns, allies, enemy stereotype, placards, cinema, film, John Dos Passos, United States, American soldiers, patriotism, conscription, France, Western Front, battlefields, democracy, Russia, October revolution, peace, John Reed, Tzar, truce, Eastern Front, Western front, German Empire, Irmgard Keun, revolution, republic, Austria, Stefan Zweig, monarchy, lamentation of the dead, victims, Thomas Hardy, revenge, Erich Kästner
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