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The Ruins of the Reich - Travels in Germany Past and Present (Paperback)
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The Ruins of the Reich - Travels in Germany Past and Present (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 830
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Total price: R393
Discovery Miles: 3 930
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This exploration of German identity unfurls as the author journeys
through the former German Reich, through the eighteen territories
memorialised in the Hall of Liberation. His travels cover
present-day Germany and Austria and those regions of Italy, Czech
Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Russia which were once German or
which remain German-speaking. Geoghegan witnesses a parade of
"Schutzen" in Bolzano, an Easter Monday demonstration in Frankfurt
and the Festival of the Five-Petalled Rose in Cesky Krumlov. He
visits monasteries, fantasy castles, Jewish ghettoes and the
remains of the Iron Curtain. He is stopped by "unofficial
collaborators" in a wood near Weimar, gets hopelessly lost in
Swinoujscie and spends a dismal New Year's Eve in Rudesheim. There
are flashbacks to an exchange visit to Dusseldorf as a schoolboy,
love affairs and broken engagements, arrests at borders and a
search for his Stasi file. Underpinning the contemporary travelogue
are cultural-historical observations on the theme of German
national identity. The author encounters the patriotic monuments of
nineteenth-century Germany and the ruins and surviving fabric of
the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the Communist bloc. He visits
the model villages, seaside resorts, occult sites and concentration
camps of National Socialism, and engages with cultural figures
whose works reflect differing approaches to the idea of Germanness:
the paintings of Lucas Cranach and Anselm Kiefer; the music of
Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner; the sculptures of Arno Breker
and the architecture of Wilhelm Kreis; and the writings of Eduard
Moerike, Bertolt Brecht and Gunter Grass.
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