Hanns Johst

Hanns Johst in 1933

Johst receives a literary prize from Alfred Rosenberg

Hanns Johst (8 July 1890 – 23 November 1978) was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate.

Quotes

• Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!
  • Whenever I hear of culture ... I release the safety catch of my Browning!
    • Schlageter

Quotes about Hanns Johst

• The disdain for culture expressed by Johst and Fanon is not identical, however. Both despise the deceit of culture, but for opposite reasons. For Johst, culture is in itself a fraud, the cheap talk of weaklings; for Fanon, culture deceives by reneging on its promises. Johst and the Nazis hated culture itself; Fanon hated its hypocrisy, a very different notion.
  • Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia (1999), p. 35