JOURNALISM FROM EXILE (THOMAS MANN'S RADIO SPEECHES "DEUTSCHE HÖRER!")

Sneshkova Irina Anatolyevna

Thomas Mann is a great representative of German literature of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, known to the general public primarily as the author of numerous novels, short stories and short stories, plays, essays and autobiographical works. However, his speeches are appeals to the German listener "Deutsche Hörer!“ they are known only to a fairly narrow circle of readers and experts of the writer's work. In earlier works, the author of this article has already highlighted the features of expressive techniques and ways to achieve verbal expressiveness of the writer's prose, various linguistic and stylistic aspects of his journalistic texts, and among them, appearances on BBC radio. This article is devoted to the issues of the historical and political context of their origin, the formation of T. Mann in a new capacity for himself – a journalist, commentator, agitator, educator and comforter of the German people, the peculiarities of his "war on the air" against Nazism.

Keywords:address speeches, radio mission, emigration, politicization of thinking, war on the air, propaganda, counter-propaganda