Staging West German Democracy

Author : Jan Uelzmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501347122

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Staging West German Democracy by Jan Uelzmann Pdf

Staging West German Democracy examines how political “founding discourses” of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By looking at the institutional history of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship to the Federal Press Office, Jan Uelzmann traces the Adenauer administration's project of maintaining a “government channel” in an increasingly diverse, de-centralized, and democratic West German media landscape. Staging West German Democracy reconstructs the company's integral role in the planning, production, and dissemination of pro-government PR, and through detailed analyses reveals the films to celebrate the FRG as an economically successful and internationally connected democracy under Adenauer's leadership. Apart from providing election propaganda for Adenauer's CDU party, these films provided an important stabilizing factor for the FRG's project of explaining and promoting democracy to its citizens, and of defining its public image against the backdrops of the Third Reich past and a competing, contemporary incarnation of German nationhood, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In this regard, Staging West German Democracy adds in important ways to our understanding of the media's role in the West German nation building process.

Author : Ursula Hoffmann-lange,Peter Jelavich,Robert Rickards,Lewis J Edinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000311655

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Social And Political Structures In West Germany by Ursula Hoffmann-lange,Peter Jelavich,Robert Rickards,Lewis J Edinger Pdf

This book offers a view of West German social structure and political culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the remarkable changes that have taken place in West Germany since World War II, it provides a basis for judging what direction a united Germany is likely to take.

Author : Armin Grünbacher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719080770

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The Making of German Democracy by Armin Grünbacher Pdf

This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. The sources, which include official Allied and German documents, parliamentary debates, contemporary newspapers articles, diaries and a large number of previously unpublished archival materials, allow for the first time a source-based study of post-war Germany for non-German speakers. The sources allow an assessment of the changes of Allied policy in the immediate post-war years which led to the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany; explain the country’s role in the intensifying Cold War; and encourage a re-evaluation of the "economic miracle" and whether the Federal Republic signified a "new start" for Germany or a "restoration" of the old social forces and patterns. The book will be of great benefit to students of German post-war history at all levels. It offers a unique opportunity for teachers and lecturers to go well beyond the traditional sources explaining German History and the Cold War.

Author : Richard Hiscocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : UCAL:B3607604

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Democracy in Western Germany by Richard Hiscocks Pdf

Author : Fritz Erler
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080987907

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Democracy in Germany by Fritz Erler Pdf

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Author : Ursula Hoffmann-Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0429306199

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Social and Political Structures in West Germany by Ursula Hoffmann-Lange Pdf

This book offers a view of West German social structure and political culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Focusing on the remarkable changes that have taken place in West Germany since World War II, it provides a basis for judging what direction a united Germany is likely to take.

Author : Richard Stöss
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022231172

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Politics Against Democracy by Richard Stöss Pdf

The election success of Right-Wing extremists in West Germany is limited, but surveys have shown that up to 40per cent of the public show themselves to be susceptible to anti-democratic slogans. This book examines causes manifestations of Right-Wing extremism, and discusses possible counter measures.

Author : Sophie Duvernoy,Karsten Olson,Ulrich Plass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501391484

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Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film by Sophie Duvernoy,Karsten Olson,Ulrich Plass Pdf

Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality. “Precarity is everywhere now,” sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and “deaths of despair” are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film explores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.

Author : Jennifer M. Kapczynski,Caroline Kita
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132911

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The Arts of Democratization by Jennifer M. Kapczynski,Caroline Kita Pdf

How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

Author : Olivier Morel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765107416

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The "German Illusion" by Olivier Morel Pdf

Examines Jewish-German “tropes” in Hélène Cixous's oeuvre and life and their impact on her work as a feminist, poet, and playwright. Hélène Cixous is a poet, philosopher, and activist known worldwide for her manifesto on Écriture feminine (feminine writing) and for her influential literary texts, plays, and essays. While the themes were rarely present in her earlier writings, Germany and Jewish-German family figures and topics have significantly informed most of Cixous's late works. Born in Algeria in June 1937, she grew up with a mother who had escaped Germany after the rise of Nazism and a grandmother who fled the racial laws of the Third Reich in 1938. In her writing, Cixous refines the primitive scene of a “German” upbringing in French-occupied colonial, antisemitic Algeria. Scholar and filmmaker Olivier Morel delves into the signs and influences that “Germany,” “German,” and “Osnabrück” have exerted over Cixous's work. Featuring an exclusive interview with Hélène Cixous and stills from their travel together to Osnabrück in Morel's 2018 documentary, Ever, Rêve, Hélène Cixous, Morel's The “German Illusion” examines the unique literary meditation on the Holocaust sustained throughout her later texts. Morel helps us to understand an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity's genocidal history in a new way.

Author : Barbara N. Nagel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501352720

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Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond by Barbara N. Nagel Pdf

Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear enough. The reality, however, tends to be more complicated. We are often faced with gestures and utterances that are difficult to interpret; we thus find ourselves wondering about the affective force of what has just been said: "Was that an insult?" "Flirtation?" "Aggression?" Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond looks at three interlocking forms of social violence--flirtation, passive aggression, and domestic violence. In order to understand their circulation, it traces their literary-historical genealogy in German realism and modernism--in scenes from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Robert Walser, and Franz Kafka, covering a historical period from the middle of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century. Reading realist and modernist literature through 21st-century affect theory and vice versa, the analyses collected in this book show the deep literary history of our current cultural predicaments and predilections.

Author : Laurie Ruth Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501375910

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Germany from the Outside by Laurie Ruth Johnson Pdf

The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of German culture and literature often are told from the inside-as the unfolding of a canon of works representing certain core values, with which every person who considers him or herself “German” necessarily must identify. But what happens if we describe German culture and its history from the outside? And as something heterogeneous, shaped by multiple and diverse sources, many of which are not obviously connected to things traditionally considered “German”? Emphasizing current issues of migration, displacement, systemic injustice, and belonging, Germany from the Outside explores new opportunities for understanding and shaping community at a time when many are questioning the ability of cultural practices to effect structural change. Located at the nexus of cultural, political, historiographical, and philosophical discourses, the essays in this volume inform discussions about next directions for German Studies and for the Humanities in a fraught era.

Author : John B. Lyon,Laura Deiulio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351020

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Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture by John B. Lyon,Laura Deiulio Pdf

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose.

Author : Karrin Hanshew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1139549618

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Terror and Democracy in West Germany by Karrin Hanshew Pdf

"In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics"--

Author : Robert von Dassanowsky,Katherine Arens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765112601

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Interwar Salzburg by Robert von Dassanowsky,Katherine Arens Pdf

A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture. For over 300 years, Salzburg had its own legacy as a city-state at an international crossroads, less stratified than Europe's colonial capitals and seeking a political identity based in civic participation with its own economy and politics. After World War I, Salzburg became a refuge. Its urban and bucolic spaces staged encounters that had been brutally cut apart by the war; its deep-seated traditions of citizenship, art, and education guided its path. In Interwar Salzburg, contributors from around the globe recover an evolving but now lost vanguard of European culture, fostering not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public (not an international elite) and a civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities serving a new European ideal.