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Protest Song in East and West Germany Since the 1960s
The German protest song from the 1960s through the 1990s and how it carried forth traditions of earlier periods. The modern German political song is a hybrid of high and low culture. With its roots in the birth of mass culture in the 1920s, it employs communicative strategies of popular song. Yet its tendencies toward philosophical, poetic,and musical sophistication reveal intellectual aspirations. This volume looks at the influence of revolutionary artistic traditions in the lyrics and music of the Liedermacher of east and west Germany: the rediscovery of the revolutionary songs of 1848 by the 1960s West German folk revival, the use of the profane "carnivalesque" street-ballad tradition by ...
Stille Post
Bis auf einige öffentliche Veranstaltungen waren Kontakte zwischen ost- und westdeutschen Schriftstellern in der Zeit der Mauer eher die Ausnahme - so lautet die gängige Meinung. Doch es gab weitaus mehr persönliche Beziehungen und berufliche Berührungspunkte. Unterhalb der staatlichen Ebene entstand über die Jahre ein inoffizielles Netzwerk, mit dem die verordnete Trennung permanent unterlaufen wurde. Autoren aus Ost und West berichten, wie sie diese Kontakte aufbauten und umsichtig pflegten. Durch zahlreiche Briefe und Gesprächsprotokolle entstehen so überraschende Einblicke in eine unbekannte deutsch-deutsche Literaturlandschaft. Autoren wie Günter Grass, Peter Härtling, Christa und Gerhard Wolf, Reiner Kunze, Elisabeth Borchers und Günter Kunert, der Journalist Günter Gaus sowie die Liedermacher Wolf Biermann und Bettina Wegner gaben bereitwillig Auskunft und haben durch ihre Briefe und Interviews an diesem Buch mitgeschrieben.
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe is the first book to explore and compare the multifaceted discourses and practices of this figure within and across linguistic spaces in Europe and in dialogue with spaces beyond continental borders. The concept of the singer-songwriter is significant and much-debated for a variety of reasons. Many such musicians possess large and zealous followings, their output often esteemed politically and usually held up as the nearest popular music gets to high art, such facets often yielding sizeable economic benefits. Yet this figure, per se, has been the object of scant critical discussion, with individual practitioners celebrated for their isolated achievements inste...
A State of Secrecy
Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the secret lives it fostered. Through a series of interlocking, in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was p...
War Song
The Great War is raging in France and for girls like Florence and Dorothy it's a liberating time ...but also a dangerous one. As Dorothy risks her life working in the local munitions factory, Florence dreams of becoming a nurse - but when her wish comes true and she heads off to France to nurse the soldiers, she realizes that her dream is actually a living nightmare. But Dorothy is determined to help as many soldiers as she can, no matter what side they're on, and if she can't, she'll die trying ...This outstanding story is full of raw emotion and a real sense of the enormous hardship faced by men and women during the First World War.
Inspiring Innovations in Language Teaching
The author, an educator and administrator with international experience, considers four examples of innovation in foreign language teaching in Scotland: languages in the primary school, a curriculum renewal project, perspectives of an innovative school department, and a training institution's partnership approach to initial teaching training. Placed beside each Scottish example are complementary pieces involving developments in other parts of the world: Australia's National Language Policy, the Bangalore project from India, New Zealand's public service reforms, and an American institutional approach to innovation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gebote
"Aufrecht stehn – wenn andre sitzen" lautet das erste der "Zehn Gebote für mein Leben", die die Liedermacherin Bettina Wegner 1980 in ihrem Song GEBOTE aufstellte. Vierzig Jahre später klingt der Grundsatz wie eine Charakterisierung der Künstlerpersönlichkeit Bettina Wegner selbst. Das Werk der Berlinerin ist gleichzeitig Spiegel der deutsch-deutschen Geschichte wie Inbegriff einer unerschütterlich humanistischen Haltung. Davon zeugen die 56 Lieder und Gedichte aus 40 Jahren, die Bettina Wegner anlässlich des Films BETTINA von Lutz Pehnert für diesen Band zusammengestellt hat. Mal poetisch, mal drastisch, aber immer konkret und persönlich erzählen sie von Aufruhr und Widerstand, Frust und Freiheit, Leben und Tod. Die GEBOTE der Bettina Wegner sprechen eine kluge, eine aufrechte Sprache. Die Welt braucht sie heute mehr denn je.
Europe's 1968
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's 1968" is based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former activists collected by an international team of historians across fourteen countries. Activists' own voices reflect on how they were drawn into activism, how they worked and struggled together, how they combined the political and the personal in their lives, and the pride or regret with which they look back on those momentous years. Themes explored include generational...
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post–Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides.
German Jewish Literature After 1990
Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing the very concept of "German Jewish literature."
