Hanns Johst



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