How German Is She
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How German Is She
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Author : Erica Carter
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1997
How German Is She written by Erica Carter and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The 1950s have passed into the history books as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany's so-called "economic miracle"; yet attention to women's roles in economic reconstruction has until now been negligible. In this book, Erica Carter explores how the development of a "social market economy" after 1949 gave a new centrality to consumers as key players in the economic life of the nation, and, in that process, gave women a new public significance. Public attention focused in particular on the nation's housewives, who were to train the populace for entry into a new world of consumer prosperity. Carter investigates this focus from two perspectives: in part 1, she tackles the political economy of postwar West German consumption, and in part 2, she looks at representations of the consuming woman across a range of popular cultural forms. Since visual imagery is discussed at length, the book is lavishly illustrated with advertisements, fashion photographs, film stills, and documentary photography from the period. How German Is She? also makes a distinctive contribution to questions of national identity. While many historians agree that nationalism was a spent force after 1945, Carter argues that concepts of nationhood survived in the rhetorics of public policy and in popular culture of the period. In this context, national and efficient consumption became a housewife's duty, not just to husband and family, but to the postwar "nation." The book will be of primary interest to scholars and students in German studies, women's studies, and cultural studies. Erica Carter is Research Fellow in German Studies, University of Warwick.
We Germans
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Author : Alexander Starritt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-09-01
We Germans written by Alexander Starritt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of becoming a scientist, is drafted into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front. But soon his regiment collapses in the face of the onslaught of the Red Army, hell-bent on revenge in its race to Berlin. Many decades later, now an old man reckoning with his past, Meissner pens a letter to his grandson explaining his actions, his guilt as a Nazi participator, and the difficulty of life after war. Found among his effects after his death, the letter is at once a thrilling story of adventure and a questing rumination on the moral ambiguity of war. In his years spent fighting the Russians and attempting afterward to survive the Gulag, Meissner recounts a life lived in perseverance and atonement. Wracked with shame—both for himself and for Germany—the grandfather explains his dark rationale, exults in the courage of others, and blurs the boundaries of right and wrong. We Germans complicates our most steadfast beliefs and seeks to account for the complicity of an entire country in the perpetration of heinous acts. In this breathless and page-turning story, Alexander Starritt also presents us with a deft exploration of the moral contradictions inherent in saving one's own life at the cost of the lives of others and asks whether we can ever truly atone.
To Cope And To Prevail
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Author : Dr. Ilse-Rose Warg
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2012-11-29
To Cope And To Prevail written by Dr. Ilse-Rose Warg and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Using a tradition in German culture called the "Stammtisch" —a group of fictional characters resembling the lower and higher middle classes—Dr. Warg writes an enjoyable and not-so-conventional memoir filled with well-known and lesser-known facts about Germany's history and culture during the turbulent years of the 1930s to the 1950s. As the "Stammtisch" and the actual relatives and friends of a young eyewitness discuss politics and economics, the reader learns first-hand how people coped with those chaotic times by holding on to their customs. Through their eyes, we see how Germany's culture survived despite the 12 years of Nazi regime, the war with its bombardments, evacuation, separation of families, occupation by armed forces, the Cold War, and dodging bullets when attempting to cross the Russian border that split Germany into East and West.
No Such Thing As Small Talk
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Author : Melissa Lamson
language : en
Publisher: Happy About
Release Date : 2010
No Such Thing As Small Talk written by Melissa Lamson and has been published by Happy About this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Many business leaders, when they begin to work overseas or interact professionally with teams abroad, are surprised by how much they thought they knew about the other culture, but how little it counts for on the ground. The reality is that communication is multi-dimensional, and simply knowing a foreign language doesn't mean one automatically understands the culture that goes with it. Idiom, psychological factors and cultural nuance all come into play. To grasp a culture, and communicate meaningfully to it, you need familiarity with language, of course, but also with non-verbal communication, customs, perceived values, and concepts of time and space. "Melissa Lamson," with years of experience in creating and nurturing high-performing global teams, understands how "It's not enough to know the language!" In her book, " No Such Thing as Small Talk," she focuses on Germany, a major business partner for the United States, and the country in which she has lived and worked for over a decade. Business leaders today expect to face cultural differences when they do business with, for example, China or Brazil. But with a Western, industrialized country like Germany, one that displays a business etiquette and work ethic similar to the United States, it is easy to overlook the differences simply because so much appears, on the surface, to be the same. The differences are not in your face but subtle. And these small, yet critical, differences are exactly what Melissa's book will help you identify, respect and bridge. Melissa succinctly presents what she calls seven keys, or principles, to unlocking the German business mind. Her principles, whether they relate to process, punctuality, discipline or email communication, are insightful, personal and compelling. Not only does she clearly lay out the differences, but she also offers a cultural perspective that is rich with personal narrative. If you plan to be in any way professionally engaged with Germany--whether you wish to participate in trade fairs, carry out negotiations with partners or colleagues, discuss schedules or terms with customers, or even apply for a job in Germany--the appropriate cultural understanding, as this book describes, will create mutual trust and will quite likely be the key to your business success.
The Chancellor
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Author : Kati Marton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-10-26
The Chancellor written by Kati Marton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world. Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, entering politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West. In this “masterpiece of discernment and insight” (The New York Times Book Review), acclaimed biographer Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of Merkel’s unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor’s inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that had been the secret to Merkel’s success. No modern leader so ably confronted Russian aggression, enacted daring social policies, and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming more divided. Again and again, she cleverly outmaneuvered strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron. Famously private, the woman who emerges from this “impressively researched” (The Wall Street Journal) account is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one’s moral convictions. At once a “riveting” (Los Angeles Review of Books) political biography, an intimate human portrait, and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth one of the most extraordinary women of our time.
Learning From The Germans
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Author : Susan Neiman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-08-27
Learning From The Germans written by Susan Neiman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with History categories.
'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman, who grew up as a white girl in the American South during the civil rights movement, is a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. In clear and gripping prose, she uses this unique perspective to combine philosophical reflection, personal history and conversations with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories. Through focusing on the particularities of those histories, she provides examples for other nations, whether they are facing resurgent nationalism, ongoing debates over reparations or controversies surrounding historical monuments and the contested memories they evoke. It is necessary reading for all those confronting their own troubled pasts.
Germany S Role In European Russia Policy
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Author : Liana Fix
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-24
Germany S Role In European Russia Policy written by Liana Fix and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-24 with Political Science categories.
This book contributes to the debate about a new German power in Europe with an analysis of Germany’s role in European Russia policy. It provides an up-to-date account of Germany’s “Ostpolitik” and how Germany has influenced EU-Russia relations since the Eastern enlargement in 2004 - partly along, partly against the interests and preferences of new member states. The volume combines a rich empirical analysis of Russia policy with a theory-based perspective on Germany’s power and influence in the EU. The findings demonstrate that despite Germany’s central role, exercising power within the EU is dependent on legitimacy and acceptance by other member states.
Tomorrow The World
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Author : Ilse McKee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-23
Tomorrow The World written by Ilse McKee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-23 with categories.
This true account of the experiences of an East German girl during the Nazi regime and just afterwards brings to the reader the lives of the ordinary German people at a time when their public life, their politics and their militarism were watched with concern by the whole world. It gives the domestic background to events that are now history.Ilse McKee was born Ilse Heimerdinger in Altenburg in eastern Germany in January 1922. The events she lives through speak for themselves, and this is in itself enough to animate every page.Germany was still economically depressed during Ilse's childhood, owing to having to pay massive war reparations to the Allies for starting the 1914/18 World War (also referred to as the Great War, the First World War or WWI). In due course the 1930's Great Depression, took the global stock markets down making matters worse. It is worth however noting the contrast that today in 2017, we rebuild countries after their defeat in war instead of demanding war reparations from them.Poised socially between the poor and the rich, Ilse sees with her own eyes how Germany's economic problems work out at several levels of the social hierarchy and she tells us about it in this book.The story starts quietly with llse's happy family life, her father a schoolmaster with sufficient income to provide comforts that are more than average. While Ilse is at school Hitler comes to power and many improvements follow but life becomes sterner. An uncomfortable feeling that all is not well begins to invade the security of such people as llse's parents. Jewish friends begin to disappear, suicides become common and the most important book at school becomes Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf'. llse, romantic and intense, soon falls in love. Ilse experiences the strange and moving ceremony of mystic marriage to her dead fianc� - a young German fighter-pilot who has been killed in action. But her youthful romances are lived against the background of war, death, heroics and her homeland heading implacably and ever faster towards terror, ruin, demoralization and finally the Russian occupation in the east. As the effects of Hitler's ideologically extreme policies work out catastrophically, Ilse literally walks her own "Pilgrim's Progress" through the carnage and its consequences, to give us a first hand account of what it was like. All Ilse's romantic and family plans were fatally shattered several times during these doom-laden years.It is a very feminine story, a story that has tenderness, human courage, honesty and great intimacy. Like 'Icarus' and John, her first husband, Ilse flies high, stalls and comes down in flames but she does not crash: instead like a true feminist heroine, a Joan of Arc or a Boudica of the Iceni, Ilse suddenly matures, takes control of her destiny and chooses to take a roller-coaster ride to the west, to bring us her story.Having been made to do "forced labour" and chemically burned by cleaning Russian Army Barracks using quicklime and worse, getting sexually pestered by a Russian Officer despite her chemical burns, Ilse decides to "vote with her feet", she becomes a refugee and walks across the Russian Zone of Occupation and through the Iron Curtain to freedom in West Germany.There Ilse meets her long-term partner, a British soldier. They eventually have five children together and he goes on to lead the search for the wreck of King Henry VIII's Mary Rose.
German Diasporic Experiences
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Author : Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2008-10-02
German Diasporic Experiences written by Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-02 with Social Science categories.
Co-published with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. In German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, more than forty international contributors describe and discuss aspects of the history, language, and culture of these migrant groups, individuals, and their descendants. Part I focuses on identity, with essays exploring the connections among language, politics, and the construction of histories—national, familial, and personal—in German-speaking diasporic communities around the world. Part II deals with migration, examining such issues as German migrants in postwar Britain, German refugees and forced migration, and the immigrant as a fictional character, among others. Part III examines the idea of loss in diasporic experience with essays on nationalization, language change or loss, and the reshaping of cultural identity. Essays are revised versions of papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Waterloo in August 2006, organized by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, and reflect the multidisciplinarity and the global perspective of this field of study.
Clever Girls Of Our Time And How They Became Famous Women By The Author Of Clever Boys And How They Became Famous Men I E J Johnson Fifth Edition
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Author : Joseph JOHNSON (Author of “Heroines of our Time.”.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Clever Girls Of Our Time And How They Became Famous Women By The Author Of Clever Boys And How They Became Famous Men I E J Johnson Fifth Edition written by Joseph JOHNSON (Author of “Heroines of our Time.”.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.