students to deconstruct these myths. As key media of German history education, history textbooks play an important role in this. Simultaneously, the discussions about (post-)colonial history have had an impact on the representation of the colonial past in
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In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 79–99 (21 total)
Freed from Sadness and Fear
Politics, COVID-19, and the New Germany
Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp
country's image. Greek leaders, both populists and some moderates, responded by trying to reopen the question of debts owed to the country by Germany after the occupation during World War II. 35 Germany's history, and particularly its Nazi past, continues
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 86–110 (25 total)
Cyrus Shahan
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Audible in the technological aesthetics of West German post punk is a 1980s strategy for escaping the political, cultural, and aesthetic contradictions of a nation trapped by the compulsion to, reconstruction of, and march toward a democratic state. Through the bands Die tödliche Doris and Pyrolator, this article locates potential sonic escapes from the canonical legacy of German experience in post punk’s technological turn. Against the confinement of the Federal Republic’s attendant freedoms, the logic of technologically driven post punk sought to avoid the hermetic fate of associative social forces past and to test the Federal Republic’s experiential limits of liberation and confinement.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 7–25 (19 total)
Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
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During his prolific career, Reinhart Koselleck left his mark on a myriad of topics beyond the history of concepts: iconology, memory, and temporality. The first part of this piece is a never before published English translation of one of Koselleck's numerous public interventions. Second, taking as a starting point his reflection about the end of the war and the impossibility to collectivize certain memories, this article links his considerations about the unsayable with his work on images and political sensuality. Going beyond a simple analysis of Koselleck's writings, the article opens a dialogue between the history of concepts and affective memories, offering news ways to link experiences, emotions, and practices while underlining the limits of communication and collective memory.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 7–28 (22 total)
Dirk Hoerder
Bordered nation-state approaches are increasingly challenged and they rarely hold up under critical questioning. In this essay I discuss the cultural interactions across Central Europe that preceded the nineteenth-century development of national consciousness and—for many only after 1918—independent states. I argue that identities based on religion, profession or craft, administrative or military expertise characterized people more than those founded on ethnocultural/regional origin during the various migrations of the period. A dual outward-inward perspective focuses on the influence of German-speakers in other parts of Europe and on men and women from other cultures in the core German-language regions. I carry the story up to the 1930s and I argue that transregional and transcultural approaches are empirically sounder than transnational ones. It follows that migrant destinations also need to be addressed as micro- or macro-regions—the several distinct locations in Eastern, East Central, and Southeastern Europe, for example—rather than in terms of states.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2008
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- Research Article
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- 1–23 (22 total)
Frederick A. Lubich
A Jewish Bridge out of the Darkness of German History: The Remarkable Testimony of Max Mannheimer, Holocaust Survivor, Eloquent Educator and Expressive Action Painter
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2013
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 133–144 (11 total)
German Colonial Rule in Present-day Namibia
The Struggle for Discursive Shifts in History Education
Patrick Mielke
exchange, from the textbook ” Time for History” ( Zeit für Geschichte ) presents events in German South West Africa in an extensive and differentiated manner that sets it apart from other German history textbooks. 3 The authors of the text perform a
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- Research Article
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- 53–71 (19 total)
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, Matthew Hines, Thomas Klikauer, Norman Simms, Jeffrey Luppes, Stephen Milder, Robert Nyenhuis, and Randall Newnham
, and society. Kampfner introduces the book by describing his motivations for writing it. He then organizes the text into seven chapters and a forward-looking conclusion. The first two chapters trace post-war German history. “Rebuilding and Remembering
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 111–131 (21 total)
The Politics of Historical Memory in Germany
Brandt's Ostpolitik, the German-Polish History Textbook Commission, and Conservative Reaction
Yangmo Ku
Prior to the late 1960s, German history textbooks lacked coverage of Poland and depicted Germany's eastern neighbor with negative images. The 1970s and 1980s, however, witnessed positive changes to the contents of German school textbooks—particularly with respect to their descriptions of Poland and German-Polish relations. How and why did Germany promote a more reflective view of history and correct negative descriptions of the Poles in German history textbooks between the 1970s and 1980s? This article addresses this question by focusing on the influence of Brandt's Ostpolitik and on the activities of the German-Polish History Textbook Commission. The article also shows how contemporary conservative reaction was not powerful enough to reverse these positive changes to German history textbooks.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 75–92 (18 total)
Introduction
Using Popular Culture to Trace and Assess Political Change
Niko Switek
connotes far more than a strategic policy choice: it is deeply rooted in the German history of the twentieth century that witnessed the cruelty and atrocities of the Nazi regime. The recent German Politics and Society special issue edited by Karolewski
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–7 (7 total)