Culture in Dark Times

Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-590-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS—THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles—fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically “great German culture,” as it was culture that imparted real value to both the state and the individual. But when authorities made pronouncements about “culture” were they really talking about high art? This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of these various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945, with their ownership the object of a bitter struggle between key figures in the Nazi fascist regime, representatives of Inner Emigration, and Germans driven out of the Third Reich.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermand, Jost

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1. Three Claims to Cultural Representation

Part I: Nazi Fascism

Chapter 2. Cultural-Political Preconditions

Chapter 3. Enemy Stereotypes

Chapter 4. Stated Objectives

Chapter 5. The Ideal of an ' Eternally German ' Culture

Chapter 6. Approaches to Practical Implementation

Chapter 7. Consequences for the Arts

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Architecture

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Painting and Sculpture

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Music

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Literature

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Theater

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Radio, Film, and the Press

Chapter 8. Class-Specific Successes of National Socialist Cultural Policies

Part II: Inner Emigration

Chapter 9. Between Aversion and Accommodation

Chapter 10. Forms of Artistic Expression

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Literature

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Painting and Sculpture

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Music

Part III: Exile

Chapter 11. Fragmentation of the German Exile Community

Chapter 12. Places of Refuge

Chapter 13. Possibilities for an Effective Antifascism

Chapter 14. Consequences for the Arts

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Literature

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Theater

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Film

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Painting, Graphic Art, and Photomontage

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Music

Chapter 15. Visions of a “Liberated” Culture in Post-Fascist Germany

Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Hermand, Jost
Jost Hermand is Vilas Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been visiting professor at universities across the U.S. and Germany, is a fellow of the Vienna Academy, member of the Saxon Academy in Leipzig, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel.

Jost Hermand is Vilas Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been visiting professor at universities across the U.S. and Germany, is a fellow of the Vienna Academy, member of the Saxon Academy in Leipzig, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Kassel.