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Old Surehand
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Der Schut
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Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920
A history of the German presence in the American Southwest, from the mid-nineteenth century through the World War I era.
Masses and Man
In fourteen essays that speak to the full breadth of George L. Mosse's intellectual horizons and scholarly legacy, Masses and Man explores radical nationalism, fascism, and Jewish modernity in twentieth-century Europe. Breaking from the conventions of historical analysis, Mosse shows that "secular religions" like fascism cannot be understood only as the products of socioeconomic or intellectual histories but rather must be approached first and foremost as cultural phenomena. Masses and Man comprises three parts. The first lays out a cultural history of nationalism, essentially the first of its kind, emphasizing the importance of sacred expressions like myths, symbols, and rituals as appropri...
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes
"Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day. His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier settlers. These Karl May festivals are hosted widely throughout German-speaking countries today. This book, based on years of fieldwork observing and studying the festivals, plays, events, and groups that comprise this subculture, addresses a larger, timely issue: cultural transfer and appropriations. Are Germans dressing up in American Indian costumes paying tribute or offending the cultures they are representing? Avoiding simplistic answers, A. Dana Weber considers the complexity of cultural enactments as they relate both to the distinctly German phenomenon as well as to larger questions of cultural representations in American and European live performance traditions."
In the Desert
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Hermesbotschaft
Hermesbotschaft: Die wundervolle Wandlung des Homo Technicus. Dreibuchroman. Philosophisch-kunstgeschichtlich taucht der Leser in eine mythologisch komplexe Welt. Mystisch umwoben empfängt "Zeus-mächtiger" Physikprofessor Legné Botschaften des diebisch-glorreichen Götterboten Hermes. Emotional kompetent wird ihm aufgezeigt, sein Leben zu ändern. Wildbunt tummeln sich Diese und Jene, leidvoll-humorvoll-grotesk, auf der Bühne der Sprachmalerei, derweil ein Kriminalfall rote Fäden, kaleidoskopisch-todesnah, zum blutrünstigen Eklat zieht. Niem, Legnés große Liebe, kommt bei einem Autounfall ums Leben; Tochter Ani fällt ins Koma. Schicksale ziehen, strauchelnd-glänzend-düster-glanzlo...
Re-living the American Frontier
The historic and mythic elements of the American Old West—covered wagon trains, herds of buffalo, teepee villages, Indigenous warriors on horseback, cowboys on open ranges, and white settlers “taming” a wilderness with their plows and log cabins—have exerted a global fascination for more than 200 years and became the foundation for fan communities who have endured for generations. This book examines some of those communities, particularly German fans inspired by the authors of Westerns such as Karl May, and American enthusiasts of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series. But the Old West (like all visions of the past) proved to be shifting cultural terrain. In bot...
Ethnic Drag
An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust
