the place of Faust in world literature

Our Faust: Roots and Ramifications of a Modern German Myth

Politics & Social Sciences

Hermand, Jost

Grimm, Reinhold

Philosophy

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Laughter Unlimited: Essays on Humor, Satire, and the Comic (MONATSHEFTE OCCASIONAL VOLUMES)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be "toughened up" and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period. Hermand also gives background into the camp's creation and development.

A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children During World War II

History

Military

Northwestern Univ Pr

Jost Hermand's A Hitler Youth in Poland is an invaluable first-hand account of his experience in Nazi education camps for German children, four in Poland. An important addition to the growing record of the childhood experiences of so-called Kriegskinder (children of war) in Germany during the Nazi regime, A Hitler Youth in Poland is a memoir of Germany's Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) program, by which German children were evacuated from large cities to countryside camps designed to toughen and prepare them for future careers in the military. During the Nazi era, millions of German children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be "German." Separated from their families and sent to the far-flung corners of Europe, these children often endured incredible abuse by the adults in charge. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences as a small, unathletic boy thrown into a "wolf pack" governed by brutalization, dreary routine, and sadism. Intelligent and persuasive, A Hitler Youth in Poland should be read by anyone interested in psychology or the history of everyday life in Hitler's Germany and the mental scars of adults born during the Nazi regime.

A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazi Children's Evacuation Program During World War II (Jewish Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Northwestern University Press

Who is remembering the German Democratic Republic, and how do they go about it? This volume of «contentious memories» brings together essays and critical responses in a look back at three aspects of GDR studies. It presents an opportunity for self-reflection on German Studies' past and ongoing engagement with the GDR and post-unification transformations. It seeks to evaluate old questions and raises new ones concerning the historical knowledge of GDR culture and our interpretations of it. Finally, it examines blindspots and self-deceptions of the past as well as those forming all too quickly in the present. Characterized by a self-awareness and historical understanding that is often neglected in the current tendency to write of the GDR, this collection marks a milestone in the (re)assessment of GDR studies in North America.

Contentious Memories: Looking Back at the GDR

Literature & Fiction

Jost Hermand

Marc Silberman

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Gathers selections from letters, essays, criticism, and autobiographies by Telemann, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schuman, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, and Mahler

Writings of German Composers (German Library)

Continuum Intl Pub Group

A collection of 33 essays reflecting the role of music in German theories of national identity and the importance of music theory in German thought. Includes essays by Thomas Mann, Immanuel Kant, Max Weber, and Bertolt Brecht. Includes notes on the authors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portl

German Essays on Music (German Library)

Essays & Correspondence

Culture in Dark Times: Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS―THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles―fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945, with their ownership the object of a bitter struggle between key figures in the Nazi fascist regime, representatives of Inner Emigration, and Germans driven out of the Third Reich.

Europe

Berghahn Books

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS―THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles―fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945, with their ownership the object of a bitter struggle between key figures in the Nazi fascist regime, representatives of Inner Emigration, and Germans driven out of the Third Reich.

Hearing Music in a Different Key: Ideological Implications in Works of German Music (German Life and Civilization, 74)

Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers

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