European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From Page Iii Brilliant  who was a favorite in hitlers court the younger Haushower was imprisoned after the july plot on hitlers life and was shot just before the fall of the third Friedell is another who did not live to see his books he leaped from the window of his Home in Vienna As the Gestapo came in the front the literary heir and leading disciple of Franz is winning in creasing Fame in his own another writer published Only in West Germany is Peter de who emigrated to England and became a Brit ish he now does articles for the Neue Zeitung and the new statesman and some by virtue of established have bridged the East West zonal Boundary and Are published with equal Success in both these include Thomas Anna Seghers and Jakob Heine and Thomas of Are in a class by they both occupy a permanent Niche in world miss the author of the seventh Cross and and was who wrote worlds illusion and Caspar have both gained Fame in the another Biz onal author is theodur regarded by Many As one of the few younger German writers of real stature his a fictional account of the epic struggle for that is one of Germany postwar bestsellers an estimated the East zone in 1948 and is now living in West in the literary split be tween East and West Germany is Rone West German head of the Lime Szerlag firm in it this Way in the East Only publications in political Accord Are it int necessary to be an enemy of if you dont fit into the political you simply Arent All before publication in the East must be submitted to the slate Kultur at cultural Council for a Check paper is still doled out by favored the result is that communist or leftist by Hitler for their views now the favored among these is Johannes now the president of the East German who is collecting royalties on 14 books published in the East zone since the another is the late Egon Erwin a communist journalist who liked to refer to himself As the raving the writings of Heinrich brother of Are an East zone typical of his work is professor a novel critical of he German Middle class and its moral Erich Kaestner n i the evening of May my the writer i took the elevated to Lehrter station in alight ing we ran across the big Iron Bridge and walled tensely for fhe marching columns which were expected of from be Hind the Lessing theater they approached drawing up in Goose tooth Refour in a uniforms preceded like a kind of Prear Orian the first Shing we noticed was the Bronze head of the pro Magnus severed from its it was being carried aloft on the Spear end of a pole by one of the marching in Advance of these intellectual elite of the third he waved the head like s War it could not have been More revolting if Hirschfeldt real bloody head had been pierced on the pole and carried through the streets of trucks piled High with books swayed Between the it was a Rainy Day and the mood of fhe students was equally in spite of the singing and the the pattern of the new masters was fundamentally not quite that books could be not Only but also they but that a government could command that books be burned in they had still to this was in exhibition which would be recorded forever in the annals of Goebbels had Given the Cue to the but it was not the it was the elite he was forcing to execute at the opera Square fhe columns formed a Large my Friend and i stood near the Brown Wall which the students had formed parallel to the facade of fhe uni As a Climax they lighted fhe torches which they the pyre had been build across the of the right of the i blazed sky the trucks drove up of books Slid out and were thrown High up into the air by eager to fall into the precisely at this Goeb bets made his he in the West the literary scene is not so lopsided leftist writers Are judged on the basis of literary not solely on political thus them Are equally popular in both Hans for is an erudite left Wing scholar whose works Are read in both another who places style before politics is Bertold eminent poet and West German publishers today pm that the deciding fac Tor in publishing any Book is its potential for that the East stood on a surrounded by microphones and be stimulated before the glowing he called out fhe names of authors As their books were surrendered to fhe Here rejected Man of letters took vengeance on Here a shrewd to whom the stupidity of the mass was Indis eliminated intellectual opposition for the if seemed almost a travesty that the Only intellectual whom the nazis could include in their was responsible for fhe suppression of those whom he celled intellectual they were eliminated be cause they presented an obstacle in the Way of the nazis on their Road of years i was told by some of their who had stood beside the that they had secretly snatched some of the lying in the mud and had hidden them under their they revealed that they had taken the books had read and reread them and kept them As hidden look heres Kaestner a Young woman who was strolling by with her suddenly her Surprise at seeing me at my own funeral was so great that she even pointed to i must con fess i did not Tike that at jus a few minutes earlier someone else had called my name it had been fhe Man on the platform surrounded by my Friend and i looked closely of the a students around staring steadfastly Inlo the blazing we decided to we Sal Down in fhe front of a West Berlin Beer Garden and stared silently of each what could we say the evening had choked our was if As easy As Alt that to destroy literature could stupidity Triumph in such a vulgar manner was it realty possible that fhe spirit of a people could die so quickly we did not know then what the whole world knows after so Many terrible years of an entire nation can be annihilated by but books never books die Only a natural they die when their time is books cannot be i i zone holds a comfortable Lead in left Wing its not forbidden to publish a communist Book in the West pub Lisher Niedermeyer but nobody buys them and its simply not one of the banned authors towers above All others As a Safe investment for that is Thomas his works Are eagerly sought through out although his caustic observations on the German race and nation have made him a literary whipping boy in Many one in finds it sur prising that Only two minor Mann works have been reprinted in the soviet his popularity literary and upward after a soviet zone speech in Weimar last August when he As a poet whose True Home is a Germany without even is the victim of a disturbing feature which veins the entire banned Book some of his greatest including magic have not been Goethe is the Only rep bashed work of Emil whom jew baiting Julius Streicher always contemptuously identified in his newspaper by using his Ludwig the prolific Franz Werfel is represented Only by the song of Erich Maria Remarque sole Book in print is the inferior Arch of but some observers View with even More alarm the fact that Many banned authors have not been reprinted at the most famous of these is the Brilliant apostle of psychoanalysis whose theories have deeply influenced literature As Well As an explanation for Freud absence from current German Book How is relatively his copyrights Are head by the Freud family in eng land perhaps because of insult and injury suffered at the hands of the they have not permitted his republication in German publishers discount As absurd the existence of any plot to keep the banned books out of among those who reject this theory is Hermann president of the Frankfurt firm of that name and one of Germany leading Fischer moved part of his company to Vienna j in 1936 in order to continue publishing books banned by the in most authors Are not Lis feed because of the Money crisis in the j German Book Fischer the i authors Are not in natural demand and have Little sales this View is echoed by a Hico publications who Points out that High costs and Small especially since the West German currency make publishing in Germany today risky a just because a Book was burned no reason to reprint it unless the Book is of lasting the Hico off Cial in Only 8 half dozen offprint authors rate he predicts that these will reappear soon As the economic crisis to cultural life has the other he were of fleeting interest and Are now m of the same View is a leading Franci Furt University f i am convinced that our will print any Book that is still of India its he a tar i v a a 1 a i s 1 t t s i t 1 the stars and