Young Love – Negotiations of the Self and Society in Selected German Novels of the 1930s

The Author: Anja C. Schmidt-Ott, born 1974 in Wuppertal, Germany. BA (Hons.) in Modern History and Modern Languages, St. John’s College, University of Oxford; M.St. in Research Methods in Modern Languages, Wolfson College, University of Oxford; D.Phil. in Modern Languages (German), Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Published articles on the image of woman in the Third Reich and gender images in exile literature. Lives in London.

• Contents: Disorientation in the 1920s and the 1930s – Love in the times of Versachlichung – Threats to Love – National Socialist measures and their effectiveness – Men and women - the crisis of manhood and a Neue Mütterlichkeit – The New Woman – Woman in National Socialism - the official image and the chaos of reality – Men and love – Women and love – Revisions of Neue Sachlichkeit – Salvation in femininity – The ‘lost generation’.