Titel	Heldenplatz (The Prisoner)
Labels
ID	2636
Type	publication >> novel
Date	1945

Collection(s)	Return From Exile
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2636/
Notes	For Lothar, the Heldenplatz was "the most beautiful place on earth" (Return to Vienna, 418) even though it was the place where Hitler was cheered by a large Viennese crowd in 1938. The German version of the novel has the title even though the Heldenplatz is only a minor motif in the novel. Its English title, The Prisoner, seems much more suitable to its content. The setting of the novel is primarily an American prisoner-of-war camp in which the life of a disappointed former adherent of the Nazi ideology is threatened by unreformed fellow inmates of the camp. (see Kriegleder, Wynfrid. "The Case for Austrian Independence. Ernst Lothar’s Exile Novels." in Cultural Politics, Transfer, and Propaganda. Eds. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Siegfried Beer. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2021, 203-19.)
References	Cf. Straub, Importierte Ideologie? in Return from Exile, esp. 138-141.