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teach the language. She was, however, able to travel to several international conferences in the company of Victor
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of post-war Europe, her first visit to France took place only in May 1953. She was only ever permitted one "private exchange", to France, which took place in 1954/55. There were, however, one or two French mother-tongue speakers in East
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translation project was completed), teaching and promoting Emile Zola's writings became the centre-piece of Rita
Schober's academic life. In 1974 - unusually for an East German publishing venture - the newly translated series was even sold to West Germany where, as in the east, Zola had hitherto been
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between 1938 and 1940, and then again during 1944/45. As a child her longstanding ambition was to become a school teacher, but after she moved to Prague she modified this goal, setting her sights instead on a career in the universities sector. The focus of her undergraduate university career was
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cycle. Although a literary giant in his native France and well-studied by readers and scholars in the
English-speaking world, Zola had till this point been little known in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, and the RĂĽtten & Loenning, most of it completely newly translated,
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Germany and to which, as a committed communist, she adhered, she was able to demonstrate without too much difficulty Zola's hostility to the "Haute-bourgeois society" which provided the context for Zola's socially critical novels.
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where she took a professorship and a teaching post. Klemperer was by now well past the conventional retirement age, and it was evident that Rita
Schober was being prepared to take over from him as head of the university Institute for
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who surprised and delighted her early in 1945 by offering her an academic job, working for him. The opportunity to embark on a university career at a time like this represented a dream come true. Unfortunately, however,
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during the 1920s and 1930s. Schober would later recall that between 1946 and 1948 she was employed as a research assistant in a university department without its own head. That changed in 1948 with the arrival of
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Aurélie Barjonet (2010). "Chapitre II. Du "mauvais realiste" au "réaliste malgré lui" (RDA, 1949-1956)".
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