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Babelturm
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The Poet’s Role
This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German ‘Wende’ was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification ‘Literaturstreit’. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet’s role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. ...
The Totalitarian Paradigm after the End of Communism
Concepts of totalitarianism have undergone an academic revival in recent years, particularly since the breakdown of communist systems in Europe in 1989-91: the totalitarian paradigm, so it seems to many scholars today, had been discarded prematurely in the heat of the Cold War. The demise of communism as a social system is, however, not only an important cause of the recurring attractiveness of the totalitarian paradigm, but provides at the same time new evidence and, correspondingly, new problems of explanation for all approaches in communist studies and totalitarianism theory in particular. This book contains articles by philosophers, social scientists and historians who reassess the valid...
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit der Kunst
Die Kunste der DDR und deren Entstehungshintergrunde sind ein fortwahrendes Faszinosum, da sie in mehrfacher und zum Teil auch gegensatzlicher Weise kunstlerische Praxis als asthetisches und politisches Handeln begreifbar machen. Dem Anspruch der gesellschaftlichen und politischen Wirksamkeit, die der historische Gegenstand in so hartnackigem Masse einfordert, kann sich die geisteswissenschaftliche Beschaftigung nicht entziehen und muss daher die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontexte mit berucksichtigen. Unter diesem Blickwinkel werden die Vereinnahmungs- und Vereinheitlichungstendenzen der DDR-Kunstpolitik durch eine Wirklichkeit kunstlerischen Handelns in Frage gestellt, die erst bei...
Schriftprobe
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Moving Images on the Margins
Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite having been officially banned-in East German socialism's final years.
Paarzeit
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Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture
Explores the changing relationship between memory and the archive in German-language literature and culture since 1945.
