Mephisto
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Mephisto is a 1936 novel by Klaus Mann that satirically portrays an opportunistic actor’s moral corruption under Nazi Germany.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mephisto canonical | 12 |
| MEPHISTO | 1 |
| Mephisto (1981 film) | 1 |
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationAward |
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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surface form:
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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| adaptationCountry | Hungary ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | István Szabó ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| author | Klaus Mann ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | banned in West Germany for a period ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticalReception | considered a major work of German exile literature ⓘ |
| depicts | German theatre world under Nazism ⓘ |
| explores |
compromise of artistic integrity for power
ⓘ
personal responsibility under dictatorship ⓘ relationship between art and politics ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| genre |
political novel
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roman à clef ⓘ satirical novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Mephisto
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mephisto (1981 film)
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| hasProtagonist | Hendrik Höfgen ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | named after the demon Mephistopheles from Faust ⓘ |
| legalIssue | subject of a landmark German court case on artistic freedom and personality rights ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Exile literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
collaboration with Nazism
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moral corruption ⓘ opportunism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of artists’ complicity with totalitarian regimes
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satirical portrayal of Nazi-era cultural life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| portrays | an opportunistic actor ⓘ |
| protagonistBasedOn | Gustaf Gründgens ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| publisher | Querido Verlag ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Turning Point (Klaus Mann memoir) ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | rise of an actor under the Nazi regime ⓘ |
| timeOfAction |
Weimar Republic
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surface form:
Weimar Republic and early Nazi era
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| writtenBy | Klaus Mann ⓘ |
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MEPHISTO
this entity surface form:
Mephisto (1981 film)