David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a ...
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This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a straightforward paradigm shift from one literary style to another, nor a straightforward collapse into authoritarian attitudes. Rather, we are dealing with a contest among writers and artists over the appropriate attitudes to adopt towards the post-war situation of the German-speaking world, over the interpretation of major cultural issues which present themselves in that situation, and over the techniques of representation appropriate to that task of interpretation.Less
This chapter summarizes the discussions in the preceding chapters and presents some concluding thoughts from the author. It shows that what we are dealing with in the Weimar period is not a straightforward paradigm shift from one literary style to another, nor a straightforward collapse into authoritarian attitudes. Rather, we are dealing with a contest among writers and artists over the appropriate attitudes to adopt towards the post-war situation of the German-speaking world, over the interpretation of major cultural issues which present themselves in that situation, and over the techniques of representation appropriate to that task of interpretation.
Michael H. Kater
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195096200
- eISBN:
- 9780199870219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096200.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and performance of their works. It focuses on Richard Strauss who wore the mask of an apolitical artist but was, in reality, more consciously and more skillfully political than most of his artistic contemporaries. Finally, the chapter considers disobedience by German musicians against Nazi authority.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the Nazi struggle for modernity in music. It then discusses how German musicians in the Nazi era had a surprising degree of latitude in the creation and performance of their works. It focuses on Richard Strauss who wore the mask of an apolitical artist but was, in reality, more consciously and more skillfully political than most of his artistic contemporaries. Finally, the chapter considers disobedience by German musicians against Nazi authority.
Scott Spector
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219090
- eISBN:
- 9780520929777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219090.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its ...
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This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its production, funding, and appreciation. The generation of Franz Kafka, Felix Weltsch, Egon Erwin Kisch, and Max Brod grew into an awareness of the dilemma of culture and nation in Prague that the generations before them had been able to repress. Their early explorations of the constellation of issues attached to artistic production in postliberal Prague point to a tension between aesthetics and politics, art and life, text and context—in other words, the specific pathology of their very particular condition in this time and place put them in a privileged position vis-à-vis a set of issues at the center of the Modern.Less
This chapter talks about Prague German culture and the city's German-speaking Jewish population. For German culture was as central to bourgeois Jewish life in Prague as Jews seemed to be to its production, funding, and appreciation. The generation of Franz Kafka, Felix Weltsch, Egon Erwin Kisch, and Max Brod grew into an awareness of the dilemma of culture and nation in Prague that the generations before them had been able to repress. Their early explorations of the constellation of issues attached to artistic production in postliberal Prague point to a tension between aesthetics and politics, art and life, text and context—in other words, the specific pathology of their very particular condition in this time and place put them in a privileged position vis-à-vis a set of issues at the center of the Modern.
R. H. Stephenson
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263020
- eISBN:
- 9780191734199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263020.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has ...
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Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has produced, in particular because of her illuminating work, both historical and theoretical, on German Classicism, which did much to bring home its living significance. All who knew her were impressed by the depth and breadth of mind that she brought to bear on her work. She is fondly remembered as a teacher of genius who combined in a uniquely charismatic way sheer intellectual excitement, tender (and patient) regard for the development of individual students, and a passionate — sometimes fierce — dedication to the resolution of first-order problems.Less
Professor Elizabeth M. Wilkinson was one of the greatest, and — across the whole spectrum of the humanities — one of the most highly regarded, scholars of German culture the United Kingdom has produced, in particular because of her illuminating work, both historical and theoretical, on German Classicism, which did much to bring home its living significance. All who knew her were impressed by the depth and breadth of mind that she brought to bear on her work. She is fondly remembered as a teacher of genius who combined in a uniquely charismatic way sheer intellectual excitement, tender (and patient) regard for the development of individual students, and a passionate — sometimes fierce — dedication to the resolution of first-order problems.
Konrad H. Jarausch
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195127799
- eISBN:
- 9780199869503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195127799.003.13
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The chapter explains the purpose of the book, which is to explore German political culture during the second half of the 20th century. It looks at the practical rather than the intellectual ways in which Germans dealt with their problematic past.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the aftermath of the German defeat and the atrocities committed under Nazi dictatorship. It then considers interpretations of Nazi barbarism. The chapter explains the purpose of the book, which is to explore German political culture during the second half of the 20th century. It looks at the practical rather than the intellectual ways in which Germans dealt with their problematic past.
Konrad H. Jarausch
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195127799
- eISBN:
- 9780199869503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195127799.003.06
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political ...
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This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political culture.Less
This chapter deals with the generational rebellion of 1968 and discusses its negative effects upon social discipline, as well as its liberalizing contribution towards transforming German political culture.
Jane Stevenson
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198185024
- eISBN:
- 9780191714238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198185024.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of ...
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This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of Catholicism, and women Protestant apologists. It also examines 15th-century Latinate laywomen, notably Margaretha Welser, and the idea of an educated woman as national ornament. The influence of Protestant exiles from Italy in the early 16th century, such as Olimpia Morata and Celio Secundo Curio, is discussed. The chapter presents the Protestant ideal of companionate marriage: Erasmus, Paul Melissus, and his wife Aemilia. An increasing tendency to educate princesses in Latin as the 16th century progressed is pointed out. Netherlandic Latinity, Dutch women humanists, especially Johanna Otho, and Petronia Lansenberg, living within a network of epistolatory connections are considered. Women's participation in alba amicorum; Elizabeth Jane Weston and other 16th-century women Latinists in central Europe; and royal and other women Latinists in Renaissance Poland are also discussed.Less
This chapter focuses on late medieval German convent culture, and its renaissance in the 15th century. It explores the impact of the Reformation: Charitas Pirckheimer and nuns' defense of Catholicism, and women Protestant apologists. It also examines 15th-century Latinate laywomen, notably Margaretha Welser, and the idea of an educated woman as national ornament. The influence of Protestant exiles from Italy in the early 16th century, such as Olimpia Morata and Celio Secundo Curio, is discussed. The chapter presents the Protestant ideal of companionate marriage: Erasmus, Paul Melissus, and his wife Aemilia. An increasing tendency to educate princesses in Latin as the 16th century progressed is pointed out. Netherlandic Latinity, Dutch women humanists, especially Johanna Otho, and Petronia Lansenberg, living within a network of epistolatory connections are considered. Women's participation in alba amicorum; Elizabeth Jane Weston and other 16th-century women Latinists in central Europe; and royal and other women Latinists in Renaissance Poland are also discussed.
Bernd Widdig
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520222908
- eISBN:
- 9780520924703
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520222908.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during ...
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For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. It argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.Less
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of their most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This book investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. It argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
Ritchie Robertson
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158141
- eISBN:
- 9780191673276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158141.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — ...
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This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — interpenetrated in Kafka's upbringing. It also suggests how Kafka's exploration of Jewish culture was related to his breakthrough into major literary achievement with Das Urteil, the story he wrote at a single sitting on the night of September 22–3, 1912. The Jews of Prague were a small group: in 1900 they numbered 26,342. Though some had Czech as their native language, the majority spoke German and probably formed between a third and a half of the city's German-speaking community. This chapter shows the close connection between Kafka's exploration of Judaism and the beginning of his career as a major writer. He drew extensively and intricately on two cultures, the German culture in which he was brought up and the specifically Jewish culture which he encountered most memorably in the Yiddish theatre, to produce a story which is a synthesis of both.Less
This chapter provides a picture of what being a Jew in Franz Kafka's Prague was actually like and discloses some of the complicated ways in which three cultures — German, Czech, and Jewish — interpenetrated in Kafka's upbringing. It also suggests how Kafka's exploration of Jewish culture was related to his breakthrough into major literary achievement with Das Urteil, the story he wrote at a single sitting on the night of September 22–3, 1912. The Jews of Prague were a small group: in 1900 they numbered 26,342. Though some had Czech as their native language, the majority spoke German and probably formed between a third and a half of the city's German-speaking community. This chapter shows the close connection between Kafka's exploration of Judaism and the beginning of his career as a major writer. He drew extensively and intricately on two cultures, the German culture in which he was brought up and the specifically Jewish culture which he encountered most memorably in the Yiddish theatre, to produce a story which is a synthesis of both.
David Midgley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151791
- eISBN:
- 9780191672835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151791.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the ...
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This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the circumstances of the Weimar Republic. The main goal is to examine how the cultural tensions of the time are reflected in the depiction of Berlin on the one hand and provincial society on the other.Less
This chapter describes the traditionally strong antagonism between stereotypical conceptions of urban and rural life, and the particular political significance with which it became invested under the circumstances of the Weimar Republic. The main goal is to examine how the cultural tensions of the time are reflected in the depiction of Berlin on the one hand and provincial society on the other.
