German Voices
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Gay Voices From East Germany
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Author : Jürgen Lemke
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1991
Gay Voices From East Germany written by Jürgen Lemke and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
"These interviews are wonderful. Extremely interesting and informative about gay life in East Germany." --John C. Fouts "A fascinating book. As far as I know, it is the first time that working class gays have given us an insight into their lives.... A singular contribution." --George L. Mosse "Lemke's interviews with 14 gay men, mainly working class, not only encompass a range of gay lifestyles... but reflect almost a century of German history.... Ultimately, love and a steady partnership are upheld as the ideal." --Publishers Weekly "These narratives provide helpful insight into daily life in the GDR--a state that highly valued conformity--as lived by a minority rarely acknowledged." --Library Journal "... vividly portray the men's trials, tragedies, and triumphs... these memoirs are engagingly provocative.... will serve as a treasure house for future historians, sociologists, and other researchers." --Lambda Book Report "Not just gay men, but anyone with a little humanity will find it rewarding to spend a few hours listening to these men." --Hungry Mind Review "... a rare, intensive glimpse into another community and another culture." --A Different Light Review "The 14 compelling interviews... chronicle gay male experience prior to the dramatic events of the last two years." --On the Issues Jürgen Lemke's collection of interviews with East German homosexual men caused a sensation in the East, where it was hailed as "a milestone in the history of homosexual men in the GDR." The book presents sustained portraits of fourteen men from different generations and classes, "in the closet" and out. Together they provide a penetrating view into the lives of gay men in Germany from the time of Hitler until the final year of the separate socialist state.
Medieval German Voices In The 21st Century
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Medieval German Voices In The 21st Century written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
As witnessed by a tremendous upsurge in medieval research, academic meetings, innovative interpretive approaches, enrolment numbers, and public interest, Medieval Studies are proving once again to be a vibrant field of investigations both inside and outside of academia. Nevertheless, there is a tendency among colleagues and administrators in the field of Germanistik/German Studies to exclude the earlier period as an exotic and irrelevant subject matter. The contributors to this volume, all of whom teach at North American universities, make a strong case for the paradigmatic function of medieval German literature for the general field of Germanistik, and argue that many of the most recent changes in our discipline related to the German Studies paradigm have been foreshadowed by Medieval Studies where interdisciplinarity, comparative approaches, the consideration of Mentalitätsgeschichte, theology, history, art history, even gender studies, and the history of everyday life have often constituted the conditio sine qua non. Some of the authors in this volume argue for the relevance of medieval German literature by investigating concrete cases taken from the Middle Ages, others show how modern German literature has been deeply influenced by medieval texts. The purpose of this volume is not to privilege medieval literature over modern literature, but instead to reclaim the premodern period as an important and relevant field of investigation within contemporary German Studies.
German Voices
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Author : Frederic C. Tubach
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2011-05-11
German Voices written by Frederic C. Tubach and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-11 with History categories.
What was it like to grow up German during Hitler’s Third Reich? In this extraordinary book, Frederic C. Tubach returns to the country of his roots to interview average Germans who, like him, came of age between 1933 and 1945. Tubach sets their recollections and his own memories into a broad historical overview of Nazism—a regime that shaped minds through persuasion (meetings, Nazi Party rallies, the 1936 Olympics, the new mass media of radio and film) and coercion (violence and political suppression). The voices of this long-overlooked population—ordinary people who were neither victims nor perpetrators—reveal the rich complexity of their attitudes and emotions. The book also presents selections from approximately 80,000 unpublished letters (now archived in Berlin) written during the war by civilians and German soldiers. Tubach powerfully provides new insights into Germany’s most tragic years, offering a nuanced response to the abiding question of how a nation made the quantum leap from anti-Semitism to systematic genocide.
Escape From Hell
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Author : George F. Wieland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-03
Escape From Hell written by George F. Wieland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with categories.
Forced to leave their country! In their own voices, twentieth-century Germans tell why and how they escaped to America.The 1920s immigrants left because of the hard times after the First World War and the poverty from living on farms of ten acres or less. An apprentice tells of getting 10,000 Mark tip for delivering a cabinet. He decides to ride the train once instead of walking home. "They laughed at me at the train station. The bill wouldn't even buy a roll at the bakery." Such was the inflation.A woman escapes the hard physical field work expected by German farmers. She becomes a maid, first in Germany and then in New York City.In the United States, the F.B.I. rounds up Germans who have not yet become citizens. Even German Jews who had fled the Nazis are grilled by the FBI. A boy, born in the U.S., tells of being sent with his family to an internment camp in Texas and then to Germany as part of a prisoner exchange.After Hitler takes power in 1933, Jews are forced gradually to relinquish their identification as Germans, not Jews. A woman tells of her illegal five-year sexual relationship with a Gentile, only escaping in 1938.The Nazis fear sexual contacts between Jews and Gentiles. Jews could only hire Gentile maids if they were older than 45. An eighteen-year-old is arrested on Crystal Night with all other Jewish men and shipped to the Dachau concentration camp. The SS do everything to humiliate him and get him to leave Germany. His mother fortunately finds an American relative who can supply an affidavit of financial support. This gains him release. The 1938 Crystal Night destruction of synagogues and businesses and the arrest of all males creates panic, but America's quota for German immigrants is for the first time filled. Those who didn't get a low number and submit affidavits at American consulates are doomed, deported to the East and death after December 1941.The few to survive the ensuing Holocaust testify of heartbreaking experiences. One woman tells of the horror of returning to her hometown where all the Jews are gone. "You know every house and every stone, but the people you grew up with are all gone. It's a terrible feeling." Germans on the home front endure the Allied carpet bombing of the cities. The incendiary bombs wreck havoc. A fifteen-year-old tells of joining the thousands to fight the raging fires in Munich. He is subsequently drafted in the army, but he joins his friends and sneaks home to avoid being shot as a deserter.War's end is known as "Time Zero." Housing was destroyed and there was little food and fuel. Tobacco is so valuable that cigarette butts discarded by American soldiers are scooped up by boys to manufacture "new" cigarettes for sale on the black market. Germans raid U.S. garbage cans.A woman falls in live with an American soldier and comes to live in America as a "war bride." Unfortunately, she is imbued with the German idea that work is important. As a soldier, his views on work couldn't be discerned by her, and like so many such marriages, the culture conflict ends in divorce. Millions of Germans flee by wagon train from their centuries-old settlements in Eastern Europe to crowd into postwar Germany. The Red Army forces some to return to Romania, to homes taken over by others and to live in privation under communism. One young man admits, "When you have no food to eat, you are not ashamed to beg."Almost all of the escapees come to America penniless. Even the children of the immigrants have a hard time, because Americans often see them as German enemies. The stories of overcoming adversity are inspiring.German Jews find hatreds by Yiddish-speaking Jews who feel that those who can't speak Yiddish are really Germans.The children of both Jews and Gentiles often learn German as their first language as Americans. A boy stands up to the FBI who come to confiscate family cameras and books, telling them he is a citizen and they can't take away his toys.
Fringe Voices
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Author : Antje Harnisch
language : en
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Release Date : 1998
Fringe Voices written by Antje Harnisch and has been published by Continnuum-3PL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the new wave of racism. In contrast, the voices of the victims of racism -- refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants -- are seldom heard. This first anthology of essays by significant writers from minority groups in Germany -- Turks, Afro-Germans, German Jews, Eastern Europeans and others -- sheds new light on the diverse experiences of minority groups living in Germany today. It also introduces to English-speaking audiences innovative literary talents whose contribution to German culture has not yet received the attention it deserves.Students of contemporary German culture who wish to increase their understanding of the changing nature of German society will find this book invaluable. It will also be of interest to anyone following the rise of xenophobia in Germany, its possible causes, and the changing politics of immigration.
Forgotten Voices
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Author : Ulrich Merten
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Forgotten Voices written by Ulrich Merten and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war's end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil.Supplementary maps and pictures are available online at http://www.forgottenvoices.net
Roma Voices In The German Speaking World
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Author : Lorely French
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-05-21
Roma Voices In The German Speaking World written by Lorely French and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Roma are Europe's largest minority, and yet they remain one of the most misunderstood and underrepresented. Scholarship on the Roma in German-speaking countries has focused mostly on the portrayal of “Zigeuner/Gypsies” in literature by non-Roma and on persecution during the Nazi period. Rarely have scholars examined the actual voices of Roma to glean their perspectives on their social interactions and customs. Without such studies the Roma appear passive in the face of their long and troubled history. With a basis in theories of intersectionality, subalternity, and cultural hybridity, Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World rectifies this image of passivity by analyzing autobiographies, folktales, and novels by Roma, thereby promoting a better understanding of the multifaceted and multifarious cultures alive today in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In documenting their voices, Roma writers unveil the large extent to which their personal lives, their social interactions with other Roma and non-Roma, and the images they project of their values and traditions are highly influenced by gender and ethnicity. Anthropological and historical studies have frequently portrayed Romani groups as displaying a patriarchal social structure with highly demarcated roles for men and women. In contrast, the significant parts that both men and women play in disseminating autobiographical, fictional, and historical narratives challenge this ubiquitous notion of largely patriarchal Romani cultures. The insights that both sexes provide on the relationship between gender and ethnicity in the context of cultural taboos, norms, and expectations unveil the complexities and diversities inherent in any minority group and its relationship to the dominant society.
Voices In Ruins
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Author : A. Badenoch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-07-24
Voices In Ruins written by A. Badenoch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-24 with History categories.
Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic.
National Socialism And German Discourse
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Author : W J Dodd
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-12
National Socialism And German Discourse written by W J Dodd and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the ‘unquiet voices’ of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the ‘language of Nazism’. Individual chapters review ‘precursor’ discourses; Nazi public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of ‘unquiet voices’ abroad, and in private and published texts in the ‘Reich’; attempts to ‘denazify the language’ (1945-49), and the legacies of the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of ‘coming to terms’ with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on contestations of ‘tainted language’ and instrumentalizations of the Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary German usage. Highly engaging, with English translations provided throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in language and politics.
Voices From The Third Reich
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Author : Johannes Steinhoff
language : en
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Release Date : 1989
Voices From The Third Reich written by Johannes Steinhoff and has been published by Regnery Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Interviews with more than 150 Germans who witnessed and participated in, or resisted, the rise of Adolph Hitler. Takes material of epic history and pesents it in the form of individual human experiences of men, women, and children subjected to the pressures of total war in a fascist state.