Jost Hermand

die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1945-1965

Kultur im Wiederaufbau

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS—THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles—fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945, with their ownership the object of a bitter struggle between key figures in the Nazi fascist regime, representatives of Inner Emigration, and Germans driven out of the Third Reich.

Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

Culture in Dark Times

Marc Silberman

Weiss's substantial oeuvre has become a casualty of the cold war's end, the collapse of socialism, and the beginning of a new millennium - as one would call it. This strikes us a valid reason to reconsider Peter Weiss - to face the challenge of rethinking the work of a writer and artist who was a committed socialist and utopian thinker at a time when these very categories have been fundamentally called into question.

Rethinking Peter Weiss

Stefan Soldovieri

Paul Levesque

"Old Dreams of a New Reich, the translation of Jost Hermand's comprehensive study of prefascist and fascist utopias (Der alte Traum vom neuen Reich), examines tracts and futuristic novels crucial to the development and final radicalization of German national sentiments from the second part of the eighteenth century. Scholars and propagandists used the glorified virtues of ancient German tribes to create the cult of Germanic values." "These works offer a vivid insight into the public imagination between 1871 and 1945, and into the highly successful media machinations employed by the Right as it used all literary genres - including avant-gardistic works as well as pulp novels and works of science fiction - to manipulate the general public."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Volkish Utopias and National Socialism

Old Dreams of a New Reich

eine Geschichte des deutschen Nationalismus

Verlorene Illusionen

Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period. Hermand also gives background into the camp's creation and development.

The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children During World War II

A Hitler Youth in Poland

Reinhold Grimm

Ranging from Hellenistic pastoral to the contemporary counterculture activities of the "Greens," the essays in this volume underscore the complexity of simplicity. Whether the simple life is located in a culture's past or in its future, in a secluded corner or beyond society's boundaries, it remains a fascinating subject for discussion.

Images of the Simple Life

From the Greeks to the Greens

Dieser Band enthält 30 Essays, Aufsätze, Vorträge, Miszellen und Polemiken zur Methodik der Literaturwissenschaft, mit denen sich ihr Autor zwischen 1959 und 2009 an die germanistische Fachwelt wandte. Ihr Ziel war, den vielfältigen Ausflüchten ins Werkimmanente, Formalästhetische, Allgemeinmenschliche oder Postmodernistische eine sozialgeschichtliche Sehweise entgegenzusetzen, die sich einer historisierenden Optik auf das jeweils Vergangene verpflichtet fühlt und eine gegenwartsbetonte Haltung befürwortet.

Aufsätze, Statements, Polemiken, 1959-2009

Fünfzig Jahre Germanistik

Eight contributions, expanded and revised, from the U. of Wisconsin Dept. of German's Seventeenth Wisconsin Workshop (on title) held in October 1986. The papers extend from historical surveys and general topologies to specifically modern trends and theories. More than three years from workshop to publication, and no index. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Problems of Lyric Poetry

From Ode to Anthem

Jahrbuch für deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur

Basis

Michael Niedermeier

Entgegen vieler nationalistischen, ja sogar präfaschistischen Deutungen der Germanenbilder aus der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts und der Ära der Befreiungskriege sollen in diesem Band sowohl die altständischen, an den Rechten der «alten Freiheit» als auch die an den Gemeinschaftsvorstellungen der alten Germanen orientierten Nationalkonzepte herausgestellt werden. Der Begriff «Revolutio germanica» wird dabei als Parallelvorgang zur Französischen Revolution als Rückumwälzung zu idealisierten nationalen oder regionalen Gemeinschaftsideen im Deutschland dieser Ära verstanden. Dabei handelt es sich um einen Vorgang, der unter ähnlichen Vorzeichen zum Teil früher auch in anderen nordeuropäischen, protestantischen Ländern wie England, Dänemark und Schweden stattgefunden hat. Wie in diesen Ländern fließen dabei auch eine Reihe aufklärerische Gedanken wie Aufhebung der Leibeigenschaft, Abschaffung der Sklaverei, Haß auf absolutistischen Machtmißbrauch, Ächtung der Eroberungskriege, Verstärkung der freiheitlichen Gesinnung und der Egalitäts- und Mitbestimmungsvorstellungen in Anlehnung an Tacitus' Germania sowie einer allgemeinen Wohlfahrt aller Bevölkerungsschichten ein.

die Sehnsucht nach der "alten Freiheit" der Germanen, 1750-1820

Revolutio germanica

Die literarishce Formenwelt des Biedermeiers

This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner's ideological position in German history. The issues discussed range from the biographical--the reasons for Wagner's travels, his spotted political life--to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, and his vegetarianarguments, and, finally, his musical heirs. The essays are written by Tamara S. Evans, Edward R. Haymes, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Peter Morris-Keitel, Alexa Larson-Thorisch, Audrius Dundzila, Marc A. Weiner, Jost Hermand, Frank Trommler, and Hans Rudolf Vaget. Avoiding journalistic or iconoclastic approaches to Wagner, these writers depart from the usual uncritical admiration of earlier scholars to develop a stimulating and ultimately cohesive collection of new perspectives.

Re-reading Wagner

Studien zur deutschen Literatur

Von Mainz nach Weimar (1793–1919)

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the contributors to this volume consider the reactions of German writers, artists and intellectuals to each of these wars. In Germany, the first war evoked a broad base of nationalist feeling that touched even those individuals most remembered today for their stances of opposition during the second war. These essays note the changes or intensifications of earlier positions among the German cultural community.

German Reflections of the Two World Wars

1914/1939

Literatur nach 1945

Gerhard Richter

The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work. The contributors examine the texts of such highly influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács in relation to individual composers including Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler. Their explorations of the complexities that arise in conceptualizing music as a mode of representation and philosophy as a mode of aesthetic practice thematize the ways in which the fields of music and philosophy are altered when either attempts to express itself in terms defined by the other. Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber

German Music and Philosophy

Sound Figures of Modernity

Diese Festschrift ist dem international bekannten Germanisten Klaus L. Berghahn zu seinem 70. Geburtstag gewidmet. Der Band enthält Beiträge von Freunden, Kollegen und ehemaligen Schülern und greift vor allem diejenigen Forschungsgebiete auf, mit denen sich Klaus L. Berghahn im Laufe seiner akademischen Tätigkeit besonders intensiv beschäftigt hat: der ästhetischen Theoriebildung, dem Werk Friedrich Schillers, der deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose und der deutschen Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.

Positive Dialektik

Klaus L. Berghahn

Among the many studies on German National Socialism that have appeared in the last forty to fifty years, one aspect has seldom been treated in detail: the cultural representations of Adolf Hitler from the late 1920s to the present. This book focuses on the image of Hitler in literature, photography, historiography, film, philosophy, theatre, and comic books by major artists and scholars such as Ernst Ottwalt, Heinrich Hoffmann, Bertolt Brecht, John Hearfield, Leni Riefenstahl, Charles Chaplin, Theodor W. Adorno, Heiner Muller, and George Tabori.

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