The many faces of Germany : transformations in the study of German culture and history : festschrift for Frank Trommler / edited by John A. McCarthy, Walter Grünzweig, and Thomas Koebner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942-2022, editor.

Grünzweig, Walter, editor.

Koebner, Thomas, 1941- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Germany.

Politics and literature--Germany--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Politics and culture--Germany--History--20th century.

Politics and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 411 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Berghahn Books, [2004]

Summary:

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Part I: Dialectics of Memory

1. Das Unvergangene der Geschichte. Zum Topos der Zukünftigkeit im Vergleich der Humanities und der Geisteswissenschaften

2. Totems and Taboos: Debating Nazi Legacies at the Turn of the Century

3. On the Necessity of Writing Poetry after Auschwitz: A Reassessment of Adorno’s Cultural Critique

4. Erinnern—Wiederherstellen—Deuten. Perspektiven der Vergangenheit in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur

Part II: Mining History

5. Jüdische Identität und Antisemitismus im Werk Arthur Schnitzlers

6. Das Unsichtbare im Film. Zu Fritz Langs M

7. Hans Schweikart’s Das Fräulein von Barnhelm: Lessing Gets Drafted into the Service of the Third Reich

8. Das Glück im Kino

9. Das literarische Preisausschreiben der American Guild for German Cultural Freedom 1937–1940

10. “Nicht auf Schlachtfeldern allein wird der Sieg der Demokratie entschieden”: Culture Wars in Postwar Austrian Radio

11. Brecht: The Poet and the Canon

12. Geschichte[n] von, mit und in populären Liedern. Anmerkungen zu einem kulturgeschichtlichen Dreiecksverhältnis

Part III: Bilateral Understanding

13. The Challenge of American Historiography for Historians of Postwar Germany

14. The Seven Faces of Germany: Reflections on Continuities and Discontinuities in Recent German History

15. Jenseits von Verdammung und Verklärung. Plädoyer für eine differenzierte DDR-Geschichte

16. “Man kommt immer noch früh genug zu spät”: The State of the Art in Contemporary German History in the United States

17. Bismarck’s Great-Grandson: Upton Sinclair, Germany, and Cold War Paranoia

18. “Die Früchte Europas”. Wolfgang Koeppens Amerikafahrt

19. Zwischen Gestern und Morgen. Stefan Zweigs Begegnung mit der Neuen Welt

20. Literature and Science: A Bilateral View

Part IV: Closures—Transitions—Openings

21. The Crisis of the Humanities in the United States

22. German Studies as an American Project: Provisional Reflections

23. Der “aufhaltsame Aufstieg” der Grünen und die zögerlich folgende Germanistik

24. Searching for the Father(land): Afro-German Literature’s Dilemma

25. New Models of Interdisciplinary German Studies

26. Goethe and Schiller after Adorno: Using the Past to See the Future

27. Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and the Future of German Studies

28. “The World Is Full”: Changing Discourses of Space and Place after September 11

Frank Trommler: Appreciations

Frank Trommler—Publications

Notes on Contributors

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-597-2

1-57181-034-X