Over the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyses the game's fluid role in shaping and reflecting German society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership.

Explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling in their works with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world. Social-injustice dilemmas such as poverty, unemployment, and racism are subjects of continuing debate in European societies and in Germany in particular, as solutions are difficult and progress often comes slowly. Such discussionsare not limited to opposing newspaper editorials, position papers, or legislative forums, however; creative works expound on these topics as well, but their contributions to the debate are often marginalized. This collectionof new essays explores how contemporary German-language literary, dramatic, filmic, musical, and street artists are grappling with social-justice issues that affect Germany and the wider world, surveying more than a decade's worth of works of German literature and art in light of the recent paradigm shift in cultural criticism called the "ethical turn." Central themes include the legacy of the politically engaged 1968 generation, eastern Germany and the process of unification, widening economic disparity as a result of political policies and recession, and problems of integration and inclusivity for ethnic and religious minorities as migration to Germany has increased. Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Olaf Berwald, Robert Blankenship, Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Jack Davis, Bastian Heinsohn, Axel Hildebrandt, Deborah Janson, Karolin Machtans, Ralf Remshardt, Alexandra Simon-Lopez, Patricia Anne Simpson,Maria Stehle, Jill E. Twark. Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Axel Hildebrandt is Associate Professor of German at Moravian College.

New essays examining the differences and commonalities between late Weimar-era and early Nazi-era German cinema against a backdrop of the crises of that time. Hitler's Machtergreifung, or seizure of power, on January 30, 1933, marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich, and German film scholarship has generally accepted this date as the break between Weimar and Nazi-era film as well. This collection of essays interrogates the continuities and discontinuities in German cinema before and after January 1933 and their relationship to the various crises of the years 1928 to 1936in seven areas: politics, the economy, concepts of race and ethnicity, the making of cinema stars, genre cinema, film technologies and aesthetics, and German-international film relations. Focusing both on canonical and lesser-known works, the essays analyze a representative sample of films and genres from the period. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Weimar and Third Reich cinema and of the sociopolitical, economic, racial, artistic, and technological spheres in both late Weimar and the early Third Reich, as well as to film scholars in general. Contributors: Paul Flaig, Margrit Froelich, Barbara Hales, Anjeana Hans, Bastian Heinsohn, Brook Henkel,Kevin B. Johnson, Owen Lyons, Richard W. McCormick, Kalani Michell, Mihaela Petrescu, Christian Rogowski, Valerie Weinstein, Wilfried Wilms. Barbara Hales is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Mihaela Petrescu is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. Valerie Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: A- (1-), Veranstaltung: Bildungsroman, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der 1959 veroffentlichte Roman Die Blechtrommel von Gunter Grass handelt von den Deutschen vor und wahrend der zwolfjahrigen Naziherrschaft sowie in der Nachkriegszeit. Der Roman thematisiert jedoch weder Krieg, Soldatenschicksale, Ideologien noch historische Grossereignisse, sondern beschreibt eine durch Passivitat gepragte deutsche Gesellschaft in ihrer Konfrontation mit dem Dritten Reich und mit ihrer anschliessenden Vergangenheitsbewaltigung. Aus der Sicht des Protagonisten Oskar Matzerath beschreibt Grass das Verhalten der Deutschen in dieser Zeit, das sich neben Passivitat auch insbesondere durch ein hohes Mass an Widerspruchlichkeit und Ambivalenzen auszeichnet. Trennlinien werden verwischt, Gegensatze aufgehoben und Dinge und Aussagen verlieren ihre Eindeutigkeit. Ambivalenzen ziehen sich wie ein roter Faden durch den Roman und sind Ausloser des schizophrenen Zustands, in dem sich die Deutschen nach den Kriegserlebnissen unweigerlich wiederfinden. Die Blechtrommel bringt das Dilemma der Deutschen zur Sprache: Ihre Unfahigkeit, aktiv Stellung zu ihrer Vergangenheit zu beziehen, ihre Rolle im Krieg eindeutig zu definieren, Verantwortung zu ubernehmen und individuelle Schuld zu bekennen. In der Unfahigkeit der Deutschen zu einer eigenen eindeutigen Positionierung insbesondere im Umgang mit ihrer eigenen Geschichte und in der Tater/Opfer Frage bezuglich des Zweiten Weltkrieges sieht Grass eine Charaktereigenschaft, die er in seinem Roman durch Ambivalenzen unterschiedlichster Art darstellt. Grass sieht in der Passivitat der Romanfiguren den Ursprung ihrer ambivalenten Situation: Ihre Passivitat hat fatale Folgen, die sie von Opfern zunachst zu Zeugen und schliesslich zu aktiven Tatern werden lassen. In der erzahlten Geschichte des Romans reichen sie bis zuruck in die Zeit vor Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltk