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This book is not your typical history book! No! In a novelistic style, Dr. Warg shows through a fictional group of men-the "Stammtisch"-how the lower and higher middle class civilians mull over the historical events during the political and economical unstable years after WWI, WWII and the Nazi regime, then occupation and division of Germany into two countries. She also draws on research of these eras, and the experiences of her own family, and their friends and how they survived mainly through keeping their Christian faith and traditions.
Using a tradition in German culture called the "Stammtisch" --a group of fictional characters resembling the lower and higher middle classes--Dr. Warg writes an enjoyable and not-so-conventional memoir filled with well-known and lesser-known facts about Germany's history and culture during the turbulent years of the 1930s to the 1950s. As the "Stammtisch" and the actual relatives and friends of a young eyewitness discuss politics and economics, the reader learns first-hand how people coped with those chaotic times by holding on to their customs. Through their eyes, we see how Germany's culture survived despite the 12 years of Nazi regime, the war with its bombardments, evacuation, separation of families, occupation by armed forces, the Cold War, and dodging bullets when attempting to cross the Russian border that split Germany into East and West.
Using a tradition in German culture called the "Stammtisch" —a group of fictional characters resembling the lower and higher middle classes—Dr. Warg writes an enjoyable and not-so-conventional memoir filled with well-known and lesser-known facts about Germany's history and culture during the turbulent years of the 1930s to the 1950s. As the "Stammtisch" and the actual relatives and friends of a young eyewitness discuss politics and economics, the reader learns first-hand how people coped with those chaotic times by holding on to their customs. Through their eyes, we see how Germany's culture survived despite the 12 years of Nazi regime, the war with its bombardments, evacuation, separation of families, occupation by armed forces, the Cold War, and dodging bullets when attempting to cross the Russian border that split Germany into East and West.
Der Nachkriegsautor Wolfdietrich Schnurre wirkte entscheidend bei der Gründung der «Gruppe 47» mit. Seine Kurzgeschichten und Gedichte werden in Gymnasien und Universitäten in vielen Ländern als Schultexte diskutiert. Im vorliegenden Buch dienen bisher wenig bekannte biographische Daten des Autors zur Interpretation von Gedichten und geben Hinweise, warum Schnurre sein Thema «Anteilnahme und Verständnis für den Mitmenschen» unaufhörlich literarisch verarbeitet. Dabei wird hervorgehoben, wie Schnurres Konzept von der menschlichen Würde und Vergänglichkeit dazu beiträgt, seine Besorgnis um den erniedrigten und bedrängten Menschen darzustellen.
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