Writers And Politics In West Germany

Author : K. Stuart Parkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000768091

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Writers and Politics in West Germany by K. Stuart Parkes Pdf

Originally published in 1986, this book is an interpretative survey of the development of political writing in the former Federal Republic of Germany. It illustrates how intertwined writing is with politics, whether by the political commitment of writers like Grass or the analysis of Böll, by the exclusion of writers from political debate under Adenauer or their insistence on involvement in the years of the SPD. So many themes central to German life are themselves political – the division of the German state, the interpretation of the German character, the Green Movement. This wide-ranging and thorough study discusses a central issue of European politics and culture.

Author : Quinn Slobodian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780822351849

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Foreign Front by Quinn Slobodian Pdf

Foreign Front describes the activism that took place in West Germany in the 1960s when more than 10,000 students from Asia, Latin America, and Africa were enrolled in universities there. They served as a spark for local West German students to mobilize and protest the injustices that were occurring wordwide.

Author : K. Stuart Parkes
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571134011

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Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945-2008 by K. Stuart Parkes Pdf

A comprehensive survey of German literary writers' political writing and involvement since 1945.

Author : Jennifer M. Kapczynski,Caroline Kita
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0156687933

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On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983 by Günter Grass Pdf

Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Author : Georg G. Iggers
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0907582788

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The Social History of Politics by Georg G. Iggers Pdf

Author : Phil Leask
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789206562

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Friendship without Borders by Phil Leask Pdf

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

Author : Anthony Edward Waine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1571815228

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Changing Cultural Tastes by Anthony Edward Waine Pdf

Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Socialism and the strong influence from Great Britain and the United States are assessed in this cultural history of a changing nation and society. The period 1920-1980 is given special prominence, and the work of significant writers and artists such as Josef von Sternberg and Bertolt Brecht, Elfriede Jelinek and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erwin Piscator and Heinrich Böll, is closely analysed. Their work has reflected changing tastes and, crucially, helped to make taste more pluralistic and democratic.

Author : Jan-Pieter Barbian
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441168146

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The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany by Jan-Pieter Barbian Pdf

This is the most comprehensive account to date of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the institutions, organizations and people who controlled German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian details a media dictatorship-involving the persecution and control of writers, publishers and libraries, but also voluntary assimilation and pre-emptive self-censorship-that began almost immediately under the National Socialists, leading to authors' forced declarations of loyalty, literary propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given to Nazi regulation of the publishing industry and command over all forms of publication and dissemination, from the most presitigious publishing houses to the smallest municipal and school libraries. Barbian also shows that, although the Nazis censored books not in line with Party aims, many publishers and writers took advantage of loopholes in their system of control. Supporting his work with exhaustive research of original sources, Barbian describes a society in which everybody who was not openly opposed to it, participated in the system, whether as a writer, an editor, or even as an ordinary visitor to a library.

Author : Mererid Puw Davies
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781800085336

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Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany by Mererid Puw Davies Pdf

In the 1960s and 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), or West Germany, newspaper readers and television viewers were appalled by terrible images of fires burning half a world away. The Vietnam War was a decisive catalyst for the era’s wider protest movements and gave rise to an ardent anti-war discourse. This discourse privileged writing in many forms. Within it, poetry and poetic writing were key; and because coverage of the conflict in Vietnam often focused on spectacular, destructive conflagrations ignited by hi-tech machines of war, their dominant trope was fire. Hundreds of poems and related writings about Vietnam circulated in the FRG, yet they are almost entirely forgotten today. Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany uncovers and explores some of this rich production in order to present a new history of engaged poetic writing in the FRG in the 1960s and 1970s, and to draw out distinctive characteristics of wider protest culture. In doing so, it makes the case for attending to marginal, non-canonical or neglected literary and cultural forms, and for critical thinking about why they might, over time, have been obscured. This book offers, too, a case study for reflection on the representation of war, on ways in which German oppositional culture could imagine its others, and the ways in which other voices could speak to it in turn, and on the relationship of poetry to the historical world.

Author : Merle Curtis Krueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UVA:X000835742

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Authors and the Opposition by Merle Curtis Krueger Pdf

Author : Richard W. McCormick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400861644

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Politics of the Self by Richard W. McCormick Pdf

Richard McCormick examines the concepts of postmodernity and postmodernism as they apply to West Germany, discussing them against the background of cultural and political upheaval in that country since the 1960s, rather than exclusively in the more familiar setting of intellectual history. Considering six literary and cinematic texts that are marked by a preoccupation with the self and subjectivity, he underscores the crucial influence of feminism on writers and filmmakers--and on the "postmodern." In a broad international context he describes the conflicting forces that affected the West German student movementthe rationalistic tradition of the Weimar Left and more "irrational" influences such as French existentialism and surrealism (as well as the American "Beat" movement and rock & roll)--and shows how these forces played themselves out so that dogmatic Marxist Leninism was repudiated in favor of a "New Subjectivity.". At the center of the discussion are the novels Lenz by Peter Schneider, Class Love (Klassenliebe) by Karin Struck, and Devotion by Botho Strauss, and the films Wrong Move written by Peter Handke and directed by Wim Wenders, Germany, Pale Mother by Helma Sanders-Brahms, and The Subjective Factor by Helke Sander. The author shows how ongoing attempts to attack the separation of emotion from reason, life from art, the private from the public, and the personal from the political brought about changes in outlook, from the 1960s to the early 1980s, that are related to the rise of new political movements--ecology, nuclear disarmament, and feminism. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 1902653211

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Divided Loyalties by Peter Davies Pdf

This study aims to shed light on the relationship of writers with power in East Germany by setting their work in the context of Soviet and SED German policy after 1945. Peter Davies provides an analysis of the politics of German division as it affected visions of German national identity within the East German artistic community, and shows how this can give us a profound insight into contentious questions of artistic `dissidence' and `conformity'. The second part of the study develops these ideas through a series of case studies of important individuals such as Johannes R. Becher, Peter Huchel, Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler, analysing the complexities of their relationship with the power structures and ideology of the East German state in the institutional context of the Deutsche Akademie der Kunste. The study concludes with an account of the consequences of the June 1953 uprising for these artists' view of their role in the GDR.

Author : William John Niven,James Jordan
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132236

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Politics and Culture in Twentieth-century Germany by William John Niven,James Jordan Pdf

This is the first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics and culture in Germany, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the effects are less obvious.

Author : Jane Kramer
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:39015036034042

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The Politics of Memory by Jane Kramer Pdf

In the Politics of Memory Jane Kramer surveys the moral and political landscape of today's Germany, where the reunification of East and West has brought into conflict two vastly different memories of what it means to "be" German. These essays cut straight to the Zeitgeist of Europe's most politically and economically influential country. Self-styled anarchists destroy a filmmaker's Berlin restaurant to protest its "bourgeois" nature, but their ruthless call for freedom is simply German fascism repackaged. A young East German who escapes to the West doesn't know what to do with himself once he gets there - an example of the deep passivity that is perhaps the Communists' most troubling legacy to the "new" Germany. And the bizarre story of a German holocaust memorial reveals a revisionist desire to portray the country as a victim of World War II by "turning the twelve dark years of Hitler into twelve years of resistance to Hitler and occupation by Hitler; an abandonment, for the sake of settling the past into 'history, ' of the very plain historical truth that Germany had chosen Hitler".