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Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism: Language, Violence, and Identity - Sarah Colvin - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=oX4-He7tbOkC&pg=PA172
In 1970 Ulrike Meinhof abandoned a career as a political journalist to join the Red Army Faction; captured as a terrorist along with other members of the group in 1972, she died an unexplained death in a high-security prison in 1976. A charismatic…
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Politics and Culture in Twentieth-century Germany - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=WIG9lLpN20wC&pg=PA105
The cultural history of 20th-century Germany, more perhaps than that of any other European country, was decisively influenced by political forces and developments. This volume of essays focuses on the relationship between German politics and culture, which…
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Reading Mahler: German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-siècle Vienna - Carl Niekerk - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=rboDGFu_i08C&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false
Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature,…
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A Companion to the Nibelungenlied - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wu0B6_XO3boC&pg=PA139&dq=Joachim+Fernau&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwADgoahUKEwiN6K6xwvvHAhUGWSwKHST
Few works of the middle ages can boast the "staying power" of the "heroic" Nibelungenlied and few have generated more controversy both among scholars and the educated public. The Nibelung theme has been ubiquitous over the past 150 years in a wide spectrum…
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Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=m1MdufwL9QgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA56&dq=%22G%C3%BCnther+Prien%22+&ots=bQwvA4EQFt&sig=W6uqqP27nG
The recent "discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television…
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German Literature, Jewish Critics: The Brandeis Symposium - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=NHw8bS00eWAC&pg=PA215&dq=slochower+i+was+born+bukowina&lr=&cd=3#v=onepage&q=slochower%20i%20was%
Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given…
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A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UH0XSRGQwQAC&pg=PA137&dq=%22Louis+Friedmann%22&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=13#v=onepage&q=%22Louis%20Friedma
This volume of specially commissioned essays takes a fresh look at the Viennese Jewish dramatist and prose writer Arthur Schnitzler. Fascinatingly, Schnitzler's productive years spanned the final phase of the Habsburg monarchy, World War I, the First…
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Simulacrum America: The USA and the Popular Media - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=rEYxxKG_-jcC&pg=PA126#v=onepage
This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the…
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David P. Goldman: Wie der amerikanische Traum zusammenbrach - WELT
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article106488191/Wie-der-amerikanische-Traum-zusammenbrach.html
Kolumnist David P. Goldman sieht sein Land in der Krise. Er vermisst den Ehrgeiz, der einst Wohlstand schuf – und sagt: "Wir haben die falsche Bevölkerung, um mit der Welt umgehen zu können."
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Women and Death 2: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural ... - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=um1u901-VK0C&pg=PA99&dq=Germania+auf+der+Wacht+am+Rhein&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Germ
Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts,…