Anton Sittinger

An introduction to Graf’s novel about petty-bourgeois supporters of the Nazi movement.

Oskar Maria Graf’s devastating portayal of Spießbürger, the petty bourgeois philistines who voted for, or succumbed to, the Hitler movement. The book was was written in 1934-5 after Graf had gone into exile, and was published in 1937 through Malik-Verlag, a German publisher based in London.

I am currently working on a complete translation.

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Ed Walker

Novelist, translator and publisher at RedLines Press. Author of the Alex Martin novels and translator of Oskar Maria Graf.

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