Three witnesses to our crisis : radio transcripts, [194-?]-1955.

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Three witnesses to our crisis : radio transcripts, [194-?]-1955.

Copies (2) of typed transcripts of a series of radio talks delivered over WOSU-radio by Oskar Seidlin entitled "Three witnesses to our crisis" and relating to the 20th-century German authors Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.

1 folder (96 p.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7033002

Ohio State University Libraries

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Seidlin, Oskar, 1911-1984

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Professor of German, The Ohio State University. From the description of Three witnesses to our crisis : radio transcripts, [194-?]-1955. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 22232916 ...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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Franz Kafka (b. July 3, 1883, Prague, Czech Republic–d. June 3, 1924, Klosterneuburg, Austria) was a novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absur...