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An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics
After 1945, Germany was inundated with ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe. Andrew Demshuk explores why they integrated into West German society.
This revelatory history examines the loyal inner circle that followed—and enabled—Hitler’s rise to power and continued on after WWII. Hitler was not a lonely, aloof dictator. Throughout his rise in the NSDAP, he gathered a loyal circle around him, and was surrounded by people who celebrated, flattered and intrigued him. Who belonged to this inner circle around Hitler? What function did this court fulfill? And how did it influence the perception of history after 1945? Using previously unknown sources, Heike Görtemaker explores Hitler’s private environment and shows how this inner circle made him who he was. Hitler’s inner circle, the Berghof Society, was his private retreat. But th...
Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic and political integration so as to make lasting cooperation on the old continent possible. It tries to overcome the traditional national framing that ironically persists just at a time when organized efforts to transform Europe from an object of debate to an actual subject have some chance of succeeding in making it into a polity in its own right.
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation Broken Lives is a gripping account of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did. Drawing on six dozen memoirs by Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of people who not only lived through the Third Reich, World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators and victims, Broken Lives offers new insights about persistent questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally distance themselves from the Nazi past and come to embrace human rights? The result is a powerful portrait of the experiences of average Germans who journeyed into, through, and out of the abyss of a dark century.
andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. As a specifically transatlantic endeavor, we also highlight select topics in American Studies that impact German Studies. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features sections about German Studies approaches to media literacy, Stephen Dowden's book »Modernism and Mimesis« and the poetics of ambiguous memory.
Der Tourismus war für die DDR von enormer symbolischer Bedeutung. Die staatlich unterstützte »Erholung« diente der Systemstabilisierung, die Beschränkung der Reisefreiheit zeitigte systemgefährdende Wirkungen. Heike Wolter stellt politische und rechtliche Grundlagen, Reiseziele und -veranstalter, Verkehrsmittel und nicht zuletzt die persönlichen Erfahrungen reisender DDR-Bürger dar. Sie bietet damit zahlreiche neue Einblicke in System und Alltag der DDR vor allem der 1970er und 1980er Jahre.
Zusammenfassung: Prof. Dr. Uwe Koreik hat das Fach Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten in wissenschaftlicher und institutioneller Hinsicht entscheidend mitgeprägt. Unter dem Titel Beruf(ung) DaF/DaZ, der den jahrzehntelangen Einsatz Uwe Koreiks für das Fach und die mit ihm verbundenen Menschen reflektiert, liegt nun die Festschrift für ihn anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages vor. Sie vereint in zwei Bänden 24 wissenschaftliche Fachbeiträge sowie 16 Vignetten. Die von namenhaften Fachvertreter*innen verfassten wissenschaftlichen Beiträge zeichnen den akademischen Berufsweg Uwe Koreiks nach und greifen Themen aus seinen Arbeits- und Forschungsgebieten auf: Kulturwissenschaft/Landeskunde, Film und Literatur, Erinnerungsorte sowie den Bereich des Testens und Prüfens. Die von Kolleg*innen, Weggefährt*innen und Freund*innen stammenden Vignetten zeigen in humorvoller und anekdotischer Form einen Blick auch auf die menschliche Seite Uwe Koreik.
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Der Band entstand anlässlich eines Symposions zum 25jährigen Fall der Berliner Mauer und umfasst 20 Beiträge, eine Zusammenfassung der wissenschaftlichen Beiträge sowie mehrere Interviews des Deutschland Archivs Online. Die Beiträge wurden gehalten in den Sektionen "Herrschaft und Widerstand", "Gesellschaft und Mauer" sowie "Kultur im Schatten der Mauer". Leitfragen sind: Wie gestaltete sich das Leben mit der Mauer in Ost und West? An welchen Stellen, in welchen Bereichen war die Mauer durchlässig? Wo sind die Folgen der 40-jährigen deutschen Teilung heute noch spürbar? Welche (europäischen) Perspektiven eröffnen sich durch diese Fragestellungen für die Gegenwart und Zukunft? Hat die (überwundene?) Teilung noch Relevanz für die nachwachsenden Generationen?