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Gender and Germanness
The contributors to this volume pursue the standards of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts and language over a period of 300 years in sections devoted to history and the canon, visual culture, language and power.
Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989
A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.
Pavel & I
'Writing in the tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carré ... a stylish update of the Cold War spy thriller ... a proper page-turner' Metro 'An espionage thriller, complete with double-crosses, torture, prostitution, a monkey and summary executions ... There is much to like about this book' The Times ___________________ Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his apartment. So begins the race to take possession of the spy's secret, a race which threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for Sonia, his enigmatic upstairs neighbour. As the action hurtles towards catastrophe, the hunt merges with one for the truth about the novel's protagonist: who exactly is Pavel Richter?
Screening Nostalgia
The Heimat film genre, assumed to be outdated by so many, is very much alive. Who would have thought that this genre - which has been almost unanimously denounced within academic circles, but which seems to resonate so deeply with the general public - would experience a renaissance in the 21st century? The genre's recent resurgence is perhaps due less to an obsession with generic storylines and stereotyped figures than to a basic human need for grounding that has resulted in a passionate debate about issues of past and present. This book traces the history of the Heimat film genre from the early mountain films to Fatih Akin's contemporary interpretations of Heimat.
Over the Wall/after the Fall
Annotation A rich and appealing tour of post-communist cultures in Eastern Europe as seen from East and West.
Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27 1952
A photographic portrait of a single boulevard in Berlin, taken before the buildings' demolition In 1952, East Berlin's municipal authorities commissioned Fritz Tiedemann to photograph a section of Fruchtstraße, where the buildings were set for demolition in the following decades. In this volume, German photographer Arwed Messmer (born 1964) assembles 32 archival images into a panoramic portrait of a bygone place.
Neue deutsche Literatur
Issues for Mai-Dez. 2004 ("Zeitschrift für Literatur und Politik") add coverage of politics (and illustrations).
Drive B
This volume is a joint publication of the Brecht Yearbook and the Berlin journal Theater der Zeit Arbeitsbuch in anticipation of the Brecht centenary in 1998. The large-format edition is richly illustrated and includes original contributions in English and German by writers Nadine Gordimer, Günther Grass, Elfriede Jelinek, Volker Braun, Gerhard Zwerenz, and Christoph Hein. In addition, there are interviews with or statements by international directors Augusto Boal, George Tabori, Leander Haußmann, Patrice Pavis, Simon McBurney, Robert Wilson, Di Trevis, Richard Schechner, and Richard Foreman. Finally, essays by scholars Sue-Ellen Case, R.G. Davis, Joachim Fiebach, Loren Kruger, Helmut Lethen, Hans Mayer, Klaus Völker, and Carl M. Weber address Brecht's significance for the new millennium. ISBN 3-9805945-0-5 (Germany) ISSN 00734-8665 (Brecht Yearbook) ISSN 0040-54118 (Theater der Zeit)
Alles auf Rot
Zusammen sind wir weniger allein In den Sechzigern hat Horst Szymaniak, einer der letzten Fußballer aus dem Bergbaumilieu, zum jungen Franz Beckenbauer gesagt: »Nach uns kommen nur noch Spieler aus Kunststoff.« ist die Geschichte vom 1. FC Union Berlin, den Schlosserjungs aus Köpenick, die zwar längst kein Metall mehr verarbeiten, aber deshalb noch lange nicht aus Kunststoff sind. Bekannte Autoren und Union-Insider erzählen von einem der letzten Gallischen Dörfer im Profifußball, von unerschöpflicher Liebhaberei, eiserner Gemeinschaft und anderen vergessenen Tugenden. Ein Denkmal für alle Union-Fans und eine mitreißende Empfehlung an alle, es zu werden. »Union verkörpert für viele Fußballfans im Land eine andernorts längst verlorene Romantik.« Süddeutsche Zeitung »Weil alle so viel besser gelaunt sind als im Kulturbetrieb, meinem eigentlichen Habitat, beschließe ich nach drei Metern Weg, mich auch hier zu integrieren, für heute also Union-Fan zu sein.« Ronja Von Rönne
Theater der Zeit
Blätter für Bühne, Film und Musik.
