Hanns Johst

thumb|Hanns Johst in 1933 thumb|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 External links Category:1890 births Category:1978 deaths Category:Playwrights from Germany Category:Poets from Germany Category:People of Nazi Germany