Die exzentrische Bahn: Samuel Beckett and the Madness of Hölderlin

On 7 June 1943 Josef Goebbels as guest of honour proudly attended the founding of the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft. The mad poet from Swabia, on the hundredth anniversary of his death, had made it at last: from relic of lunacy to cultural prophet of the Third Reich, his posthumous reputation was on the march. Had news of this academic knees-up reached Beckett, hiding from the Gestapo in Roussillon after his Resistance cell was infiltrated, it might have struck him as slightly ironic.

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