Hi Folks,
I wonder if any of you can help me with a question I am currently looking into? I am looking at the way Germans have been portrayed/stereotyped both in German literature and outside of Germany. I've got plenty of examples from Russian literature but it would really help my understanding of the subject if I could identify some English examples, especially from the 19th century or earlier.
Anyone got any ideas?
Best wishes,
Steven
Good question. I like to think that I'm reasonably well-read but while I can recall plenty of French and Italian characters in English literature I'm really racking my brains to think of Germans. (Excluding WW2 rubbish of course!)
The only instance which immediately springs to mind is Heisenberg in Micheal Frayn's play Copenhagen (but Heisenberg was a real person of course) and the rather minor character of the chaplain Father Godscalc of Cologne in Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo series of novels.
Ian