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Did Yeats accept a prize of Nazi gold?

ON JANUARY 1ST this year, Yeats finally went out of copyright, 144 years after his birth. It was a long, carefully managed career, before and after death. A notable high point was the poet winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, generally taken as an acknowledgement of Irish independence, writes WJ MCCORMACK

As early as 1909, Yeats thought he was in with a chance, but the winner turned out to be the Swedish novelist, Selma Lagerlöf. Scandinavians featured prominently among the prize’s early recipients, starting with the Norwegian poet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, in 1903, and including his compatriot, Knut Hamsun, in 1920.

In addition to the fame the prize brought with it, Yeats also appreciated the Nobel money. According to legend, he interrupted the telephone call notifying him of the honour with the blunt question: “How much?”

If it remained the greatest prize he garnered, the Nobel was not the last. On February 16th 1934, after Hitler had already come to power in Germany, The Irish Timesannounced that Yeats had been awarded the

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From the Pedestal to the Couch:
Goethe, Freud and Jewish Assimilation

Robert C. Holub, University of California at Berkeley

On 29 August 1930, the day after Sigmund Freud had been awarded the fourth annual Goethe Prize on the occasion of the poet's 181^st birthday, the Völkischer Beobachter printed the following short notice: "The Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt was presented this year to Professor Sigmund Freud, the celebrated scholar and creator of psychoanalysis--this was trumpeted into the world with all pomp and circumstance in the tenth issue of the Israeli Community Newspaper. The Goethe Prize, the greatest scientific and literary prize in Germany, was given to the distinguished awardee on 28 August, Goethe's birthday, as a part of the festivities in Frankfurt am Main. The award carries with it a 10,000 Mark stipend." Aside from the reference to the source of this news item, the article to this point remains fairly neutral, relating only the facts. But the last two sentences of this brief report in the Völkischer Beobachter contain the expec

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Goethe Prize

The Goethe prize was awarded by the city of Frankfurt to Sigmund Freud on August 28, 1930 in Frankfurt-am-Main. The prize, instituted in 1927, was awarded annually on August 28, the anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The sum of ten thousand Deutsche Marks was awarded to individuals "whose creative activity served to honor the memory of Goethe." Before Freud the prize had been given to Stefan George (1927), Albert Schweitzer (1928), and Leopold Ziegler (1929).

In 1927 Heinrich Meng and Stefan Zweig had begun a promotional campaign to propose Freud for the Nobel Prize. Members of the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute (1929-1933), especially Heinrich Meng, also worked to ensure that Freud was awarded the Goethe prize. Because of his poor health, Freud, than seventy-four years old, was unable to accept the prize in person and sent his daughter Anna Freud to Frankfurt for the awards ceremony (1930d).

The award of the Goethe prize by Frankfurt in 1930 was considered by Freud to be the culmination of his public life. Discussions by the award committ