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Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany (Hardcover, New)
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Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New essays on the influence of politics on 20c. German culture, not
only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the
effects are less obvious. 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 is most obvious in the case of the
Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, where the one-party
control of all areas of life was extended to the arts; these were
expected to conform to the idealsof the day. But the relationship
between politics and the arts has not always been one purely of
coercion, censorship, collusion, and opportunism. Many writers
greeted the First World War with quite voluntary enthusiasm; others
conjured up the National Socialist revolution in intense
Expressionist images long before 1933. The GDR was heralded by
writers returning from Nazi exile as the anti-fascist answer to the
Third Reich. And in West Germany, politicsdid not dictate artistic
norms, nor was it greeted with any great enthusiasm among
intellectuals, but writers did tend to ally themselves with
particular parties. To an extent, the pre-1990 literary
establishment in the Federal Republic was dominated by a
left-liberal consensus that German division was the just punishment
for Auschwitz. United Germany began its existence with a fierce
literary debate in 1990-92, with leading literary critics arguing
that East and West German literature had basically shored up the
political order in the two countries. Now a new literature was
required, one that was free of ideology, intensely subjective and
experimental in its aesthetic. In 1998, the author Martin Walser
called for an end to the author's role as "conscience of the
nation" and for the right to subjective experience. This is the
first book to examine this crucial relationship between politics
and culture in Germany. William Niven and James Jordan are readers
in German at the University of Nottingham Trent.
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