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Note publique d'information : Born into a German-French bilingual environment, the once renowned German-language
author René Schickele (1883-1940) grew up in the Alsace region − today located in
eastern France − during its annexation to the German Empire when links to French culture
were frowned upon. In the aftermath of the First World War the situation was reversed
when Alsace was reclaimed by the French Republic. In both these phases of its troubled
history, Schickele insisted on the importance of Alsace’s right to retain its double
cultural heritage between the borders of its powerful rival neighbours and on its
potential, as mediator between France and Germany, to promote peace in Europe. These
issues are addressed in a critical discussion of a range of Schickele’s works. His
controversial wartime drama Hans im Schnakenloch affords a wry but penetrating insight
into issues of identity in Alsace under German rule up to the war, while his socio-political
essays and a novel trilogy, Das Erbe am Rhein, were written against the backdrop of
the malaise alsacien and life under French rule. The historical background to the
work is examined in detail as it is intimately bound up with the issues of cultural
identity that Schickele explores in his writings
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