Literatura alemã pós-guerra: o Grupo 47 e a representação social em Heinrich Böll e Günter Eich

Abstract

The present study aims at to investigate German Literature mainly the first years after the Second World War and show how the 47 Group was built and developed, since it was composed by young writers mainly ex-prisoners who believed in literature as a new beginning and a way of helping people to find a new way of thinking after have been living by the atrocities of the war. We pay a special attention to this Group which had regularly or twice a year met for twenty years to appreciate the reading of the components presented in colloquies. In the first chapter we introduce the factors that contributed for the composition of this Group approaching literature and the writers of the time of the national-socialist regime pointing the writers who were unsatisfied with the dictatorial politics of Hitler and were exiled abroad, and also the ones who stayed in German living in a kind of "internal emigration" without writing or just for entertainment literature but not being free of the survey of the regime. We also highlight the Der Ruf magazine (The Calling) pressed in American Campus of the German war prisoners as part of a program called "re-education", once German occupation and administration had just been provided right after its defeat. From 1946 to 1947 this magazine was also edited in Monique and worked as a precursor of the 47 Group formation. The second chapter is dedicated to the Group development, to its main components profile and to the phases the Group went through during its 20 years of existence. Therefore, we based mainly on a Study Group called The Göttingen Seminar organized by Heinz Ludwig Arnold among others. The last two chapters were based in the works of Günter Eich and Heinrich Böll as representative writers of the German Literature postwar aiming at the thematic of social representation in Eich's poems and broadcasting plays and in Böll's stories and novels. It is a bibliographic research that searches its theoretical in literary critics, philosophers, sociologists and other writers such as Marcel Reich-Ranicke, Émile Durkheim, Theodor Adorno, Antonio Cândido, Maurice Halbwachs, Forster and Riegel, Alfred Andersch, Heinrich Vormweg, Hans Werner Richter, Heinrich Böll and Günter Eich.