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The 20th century, declared at its start to be the "Century of the
Child" by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion
of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both
sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national
resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However,
the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert
influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers
remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While
there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood,
research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This
volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert
influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S.
and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on
institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private
and the public spheres intersected, on notions of "race" and
"ethnicity," "normality" and "deviance," and on the impact of wars
and changes in political regimes.
A comprehensive analysis of political violence in Weimar Germany
with particular emphasis on the political culture from which it
emerged. "Today's readers, living in what Charles Maier calls 'a
new epoch of vanished reassurance', will find this book absorbing
and troubling."-The Historian The Prussian province of Saxony-where
the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat
Leagues (Wehrverbande) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and
the Social Democratic Reichsbanner)-is widely recognized as a
politically important region in this period of German history.
Using a case study of this socially diverse province, this book
refutes both the claim that the Bolshevik revolution was the prime
cause of violence and the argument that the First World War's
all-encompassing "brutalization" doomed post-1918 German political
life from the very beginning. The study thus contributes to a view
of the Weimar Republic as a state in severe crisis but with
alternatives to the Nazi takeover. From the introduction: After the
phase of civil war, political violence assumed a distinctly limited
form. It was no longer aimed at killing or wounding as many
opponents as possible; instead, it served political parties and
organizations as an instrument for exerting pressure in the
struggle over control of the street. This development was driven by
the Combat Leagues (Wehrverbande) of all political camps, who, with
their uniforms and marches, injected militaristic elements into the
political culture. However, since the violence they perpetrated
followed a political and not a military logic, it was, as I will
show, in principle controllable and did not pose a fundamental
threat to the political order, not even in 1932, that particularly
turbulent year before Hitler's assumption of power.
A comprehensive analysis of political violence in Weimar Germany
with particular emphasis on the political culture from which it
emerged. "Today's readers, living in what Charles Maier calls 'a
new epoch of vanished reassurance', will find this book absorbing
and troubling."-The Historian The Prussian province of Saxony-where
the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat
Leagues (Wehrverbande) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and
the Social Democratic Reichsbanner)-is widely recognized as a
politically important region in this period of German history.
Using a case study of this socially diverse province, this book
refutes both the claim that the Bolshevik revolution was the prime
cause of violence and the argument that the First World War's
all-encompassing "brutalization" doomed post-1918 German political
life from the very beginning. The study thus contributes to a view
of the Weimar Republic as a state in severe crisis but with
alternatives to the Nazi takeover. From the introduction: After the
phase of civil war, political violence assumed a distinctly limited
form. It was no longer aimed at killing or wounding as many
opponents as possible; instead, it served political parties and
organizations as an instrument for exerting pressure in the
struggle over control of the street. This development was driven by
the Combat Leagues (Wehrverbande) of all political camps, who, with
their uniforms and marches, injected militaristic elements into the
political culture. However, since the violence they perpetrated
followed a political and not a military logic, it was, as I will
show, in principle controllable and did not pose a fundamental
threat to the political order, not even in 1932, that particularly
turbulent year before Hitler's assumption of power.
"Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual
literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the
war and treats what happened after only in relation to the
Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history
of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences
and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers
on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for
research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition
to the library of every scholar of modern Germany." . German
Politics & Society " The volume] offers a significant
contribution to theories of death and memory work in German
Studies. It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which
lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological
investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently
written." . German Studies Review "Taken together, the volume
provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and
actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto
neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad
ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in
twentieth-century Germany...for anybody interested in the social
and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an
indispensable starting point." . German History Recent years have
witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death.
Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject
in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in
20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special
place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how
German mourning changed over the 20th century in different
contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger
issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It
contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does
not begin and end with the Third Reich."
The 20th century, declared at its start to be the Century of the
ChildA by Swedish author Ellen Key, saw an unprecedented expansion
of state activity in and expert knowledge on child-rearing on both
sides of the Atlantic. Children were seen as a crucial national
resource whose care could not be left to families alone. However,
the exact scope and degree of state intervention and expert
influence as well as the rights and roles of mothers and fathers
remained subjects of heated debates throughout the century. While
there is a growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood,
research in the field remains focused on national narratives. This
unique volume compares the impact of state intervention and expert
influence on theories and practices of raising children in the U.S.
and German Central Europe. In particular, the contributors focus on
institutions such as kindergartens and schools where the private
and the public spheres intersected, on notions of raceA and
ethnicity, A normalityA and deviance, A and on the impact of wars
and changes in political regime
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the
history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a
historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its
pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany,
predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This
collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the
20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how
death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural
self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in
20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third
Reich.
This collection of essays does not perceive the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development. It approaches this stability as an attempt to establish "normality" upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on an unprecedented scale. While the history of post-war Germany looms large in this collection, the essays cover countries across Western and Central Europe. They offer comparative perspectives and draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary source material.
This collection of essays does not perceive the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development. It approaches this stability as an attempt to establish "normality" upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on an unprecedented scale. While the history of post-war Germany looms large in this collection, the essays cover countries across Western and Central Europe. They offer comparative perspectives and draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary source material.
In der Mark Brandenburg befindet sich das ehemalige Frauenkloster
Heiligengrabe mit der noch fast vollstandig erhaltenen
Klosteranlage, Klosterkirche und der Heiliggrabkapelle ausserhalb
der Anlage. Legenden zufolge wurde das Kloster am 'Grab' einer
entwendeten Hostie gegrundet, die auf wundersame Weise in den
Handen ihres Diebes zu bluten begonnen habe. Direkt uber diesem
'Grab' wurde die Heiliggrabkapelle errichtet, die als
Wallfahrtsziel diente und der gesamten Anlage wie auch dem Ort
ihren Namen gab. Im 16. Jahrhundert wurden die Kapelle und die
Klausur gotisch umgebaut, wobei unter anderem der eingewoelbte
Kreuzgang entstand.
'Barockwunder Brandenburgs' nennt man die 1268 gegrundete und
spater barockisierte Klosteranlage in Neuzelle, aber ein Wunder ist
das noerdlichste Zeugnis suddeutschen und boehmischen Barocks in
Europa nicht: Die Zugehoerigkeit Neuzelles zur Niederlausitz und
damit zu den Koenigreichen Boehmen und Sachsen fuhrte im 17. und
18. Jahrhundert zur barocken UEberarbeitung der Anlage. Heute
prasentiert sich die Klosteranlage nach umfangreichen Baumassnahmen
in neuem Glanz. Mit seinen beiden Barockkirchen, dem spatgotischen
Kreuzgang und dem wiederhergestellten barocken Klostergarten gilt
das Kloster Neuzelle heute als ein einmaliges Zeugnis
zisterziensischer Baukunst. Der voellig neu erarbeitete
DKV-Kunstfuhrer uber Neuzelle informiert nicht nur uber
Klostergeschichte und Klosterkunst, sondern dokumentiert auch neue
Erkenntnisse der Bauforschung und Baugeschichte. Die Malerei und
Ikonographie in den beiden Barockkirchen werden in Rundgangen
erschlossen. Erstmals werden auch der wiederhergestellte barocke
Klostergarten sowie der restaurierte Kreuzgang mit seinem
Klostermuseum ausfuhrlich beschrieben. Im umfangreichen Anhang
werden Grundrisse, Planzeichnungen und Literaturhinweise
wiedergegeben.
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