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Breaking Down Walls
Day had not yet spread its wings. The smell of antiseptic and anticipation lingered in the halls of the hospital in the little village outside Berlin in a war-torn Germany. Suddenly, a baby's first outcry shattered the calmness of the early hour. In a room, Greta, a blonde, beautiful woman, listened to the crying baby; and when the nurse wanted to give her the baby to hold, she turned away. 'No, no, I am tired. I don't want it.' Elke Hawthorne shares the fascinating tale of her life, from her humble birth devoid of a loving parent's anticipation, to her fear and confusion at being asked to spy on the U.S. by the East German police. Born in East Germany at the end of WWII, she escaped the conditions of socialist Germany by crossing the borders of the newly built Berlin Wall even under gunfire. She lived as a dancer, married a U.S. soldier, moved to Texas, survived in the path of a tornado, and was even asked to spy for her native country. Although she is forced by nature and necessity to trust those around her, she is betrayed over and over again. Yet through it all, she finds a way to forgive and forget, always moving onward to help those around her.
A Propensity to Self-subversion
In the substantial essays that open this collection, Hirschman reappraises points he made in such books as Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, The Strategy of Economic Development, and the Rhetoric of Reaction. Subsequent essays fruitfully reexplore the themes of Latin American development and market society that have occupied him throughout his career. Hirschman also forays into new puzzles, such as the likely impact, negative or otherwise, of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 on the Third World, the on-and-off connections between political and economic progress, and the role of conflict in enhancing community spirit in a liberal democracy.
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-Five
This five-year review of the political scene in Germany details the changing elements of German identity and the post-unification problems. Emerging perspectives are examined within in their domestic and international contexts, and within the difficulties of finding a German role in Europe.
On the Rationality of Poetry
This study explores Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking', as it is expressed in the author's disparate and voluminous writings on literature. Böll's work in this field is situated in the multi-faceted context of social, political, and cultural developments in post-war Germany, and is shown to be an important adjunct to the novels and stories which were honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature. An understanding of Heinrich Böll's 'aesthetic thinking' can illuminate the writer's fiction in an intriguing way. In particular, Böll's defence of the 'rationality of poetry' raises issues which reverberate in continuing debates on the social validity of literature.
Translation Under State Control
In this book, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the effects of ideology on the English-to-German translation of children’s literature under the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual factors, the study undertakes a close investigation of the East German censorship machinery, showing that there was a close correlation between the socialist ideology propagated by the regime and the book selection process itself. Through an analysis of the contents of the print permit (censorship) files and the afterwords found in many books, Thomson-Wohlgemuth demonstrates that literature was re-written not only to placate the censor but also to directly ...
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Zehn Jahre Deutsche Einheit
Die erste freie gesamtdeutsche Wahl seit 1932 fand am 2. Dezember 1990 statt. Diese Bundestagswahl vor zehn Jahren bildete denAbschluss eines turbulenten Jahres, an dessen Ende die Vereinigung vonBundesrepublik Deutschland und Deutscher Demokratischer Republik stand. Das Buch versucht anlässlich dieses Datums eine systematische Bilanz der letzten zehn Jahre unter der Leitfrage: Was hat sich in dieserZeit im vereinigten Deutschland verändert?
Intermediäre Strukturen in Ostdeutschland
Politische Systeme lassen sich unter funktionaler wie struktureller Perspek tive analysieren, d. h. sie haben bestimmte Aufgaben und zur Erfüllung die ser Aufgaben sind strukturelle Arrangements notwendig, die dem System Gestalt verleihen. Die zentrale Funktion politischer Systeme besteht in der Produktion kollektiv bindender Entscheidungen. Grundvoraussetzung für die Erfüllung dieser Aufgabe ist die Rekrutierung politischen Personals. Im Rahmen des politischen Prozesses müssen dann Entscheidungen getroffen, durchgeführt und kontrolliert werden. Die Teilfunktionen der Formulierung, Implementation und Kontrolle politischer Entscheidungen stehen somit im Mittelpunkt der Funktionserfüllun...
