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This chapter focuses on genres of ‘private’ writing by authors in states of ‘inner exile’. Style criticism is represented by Mechtilde Lichnowsky (a protegee of Karl Kraus), whose private annotations on Hitler’s style in Mein Kampf have been preserved. Lexicographic inventorizing and categorizing of language use is represented by Seidel and Seidel-Slotty’s encyclopaedic Sprachwandel im Dritten Reich (problematically published at the height of the Cold War in 1961 and containing observations relating to the post-1945 period). The greater part of the chapter is devoted to a review of six diarists (Anna Haag, Theodor Haecker, Ursula von Kardorff, Erich Kastner, Victor Klemperer, and Thea Sternheim) and the various degrees of language awareness and forthright opposition contained in their diaries, including the re-telling of jokes and critical anecdotes. |
