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- 1920s Silent Film Predicted the Rise of Antisemitism
This silent film was based off of a novel by Jewish-Austrian writer Hugo Bettauer He wanted to combat what was happening in Vienna post World War I – the growing intolerance towards Jews The novel and subsequent adaptation of it into a film was warning of the dangers of intolerance and hatred
- Die Stadt ohne Juden (1924) The City without Jews
Despite the fact that, contrary to Bettauer's book, the film is more a comedy rather than a real plea against antisemitism, and that it includes pretty negative archetypes against Jews, screenings of the film were actually subject to disturbances by NSDAP members
- The silent movie which predicted the rise of anti-Semitism
Jewish-Austrian writer Hugo Bettauer wanted to counter rising intolerance towards Jews in Vienna after WWI One of his novels was adapted into a silent film
- Die Stadt ohne Juden (novel) - Wikipedia
The City Without Jews (German: Die Stadt ohne Juden) is a 1922 novel by Hugo Bettauer This is arguably his best-known novel It portrays a satire on the acutely topical subject of antisemitism : A fictional politician orders the expulsion of all Jews from Vienna
- Why a 1924 satire about antisemitism seems prescient in 2025 - The Forward
There, the city’s cynical chancellor announces the solution: exile the Jews, including those who have been baptized Bettauer had intended his novel to be taken as a satire, written in response to
- 1924 Film That Anticipates the Holocaust Found and Restored
A satire on antisemitism, it was based on a book by the same name by the journalist and writer Hugo Bettauer
- The murder of Hugo Bettauer. - Free Online Library
(27) Bettauer was charged on twenty-three counts of attacks on public decency under paragraph 516 of the criminal code, but a jury court found him not guilty Bettauer's propagation of free love was a constant thorn in the side of the respectable right and prompted antisemites like Hartner-Hnizdo into frenzied outbursts of indignation
- Visions of Vienna
social relationships, growing political tensions, and anti-Semitism become tangible in the various representations of this city on film In starting to address the actual representation of Vienna as a specific
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