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Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945 Pol O Dochartaigh

Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945 By Pol O Dochartaigh

Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945 by Pol O Dochartaigh


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Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of good Germans during the Second World War and the Nazi period.

Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945 Summary

Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity by Pol O Dochartaigh

Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of good Germans during the Second World War and the Nazi period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans asevil. That search has never really stopped. In the past few years, we have witnessed a burgeoning of cultural representations of this other kind of Third Reich citizen - the good German - as opposed to the committed Nazi or genocidal maniac. Such representations have highlighted individuals' choices in favor of dissenting behavior, moral truth, or at the very least civil disobedience. The good German's counterhegemonic practice cannot negate or contradict the barbaric reality of Hitler's Germany, but reflects a value system based on humanity and an other ideal community. This volume of new essays explores postwar and recent representations of good Germans during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity found in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function and reception of Good Germans in Germany and abroad. Contributors: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Braganca, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon Hughes, Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pol O Dochartaigh, Christiane Schoenfeld, Matthias Uecker. Pol O Dochartaigh is Professor of German and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Christiane Schoenfeld is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Finding the Good German Re-Presenting the Good Citizen: Philosophical Reflections - Maeve Cooke Goerings glorreichste Gunstlinge: The Portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwangler and Gustaf Grundgens as Good Germans in the West German Media since 1945 - Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky From Hitler's Champion to German of the Century: On the Representation and Re-invention of Max Schmeling - Jon Hughes Wilhelm Krutzfeld and Other Good Constables in Police Station 16 in Hackescher Markt - Eoin Bourke The Good German between Silence and Artistic Deconstruction of an Inhumane World: Johannes Bobrowski's Mausefest and Der Tanzer Malige - Sabine Egger Saints and Sinners: The Good German and Her Others in Heinrich Boell's Gruppenbild mit Dame - Matthias Uecker Being Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film - Christiane Schoenfeld The Banality of Good? Good Nazis in Contemporary German Film - Alexandra Ludewig Memories of Good and Evil in Sophie Scholl -- Die letzten Tage - Coman Hamilton Deconstructing the Good German in French Best-Sellers Published in the Aftermath of the Second World War - Manuel Braganca Macbeth, Not Henry V: Shakespearean Allegory in the Construction of Vercors's Good German - Kevin De Ornellas A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother - Joachim Fischer Shades of Gray: The Beginnings of the Postwar Moral Compromise in Joseph Kanon's The Good German - Pol O Dochartaigh Filmography Index

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NPB9781571134981
9781571134981
1571134980
Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture after 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity by Pol O Dochartaigh
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2013-04-01
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