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Concepts of ‚Heimat' in the Works of Joachim Ringelnatz
Kaňka, Vlastimil ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Weinberg, Manfred (referee)
Literary history so far has viewed the figure of the writer and painter Joachim Ringelnatz (born Hans Bötticher) mainly as a dadaistically humorous cabaret performer and globetrotter, who became famous for his poems about the everlastingly drunken sailor Kuttel Daddeldu or for his satirical poems about the contemporary reality of the Weimar Republic. Although we can indeed (now and then) observe this layer in his writings, the present work will attempt to dispel this generally received image and show that Ringelnatz's oeuvre is far richer than what has been described so far. In doing so, we will focus primarily on the motif of home, its forms, and the questions associated with it: what conception of home does Ringelnatz distance himself in his emphasis on homelessness from? What values and functions, on the other hand, is his positive idea of home connected with? Are these notions constant in his work or variable depending on the creative phase, genre, or purpose of the text?
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