ABSTRACT
Lissauer is now remembered for his notorious ‘Haßgesang gegen England’, a venomous patriotic poem composed during the First World War. A Prussian Jew, Lissauer wrote works which could, had he been Aryan, have been accepted as ‘Blut und Boden’ literature (Der Acker (1910), Der Strom (1912)); 1813. Ein Zyklus (1913) and Bach (1916) extol great German figures, as do the dramas Die letzten Stunden Yorcks, Die Anfechtung, Der Royalist and Eckermann (1919). Der inwendige Weg and Pfingsten (1919) are rhapsodic outpourings. Lissauer published in the Eugen Diederichs Verlag, a right-wing publishing house; he bitterly regretted having written the ‘Haßgesang’ and left Germany after the Nazi seizure of power.
