Models of the Intellectual in Contemporary France and Germany: Silence and Communication

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. From Nature to Modernism: The Concept and Discourse of Culture in Its Development from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century 23
5. The German “Geist und Macht” Dichotomy: Just a Game of Red Indians? 43
6. “In the Exile of Internment” or “Von Versuchen, aus einer Not eine Tugend zu machen”: German-Speaking Women Interned by the British during the Second World War 63
7. “Deutschland lebt an der Nahtstelle, an der Bruchstelle”: Literature and Politics in Germany 1933–1950 89
8. “Das habe ich getan, sagt mein Gedächtnis. Das kann ich nicht getan haben, sagt mein Stolz! . . .” History and Morality in Hochhuth’s Effis Nacht 107
9. Stefan Heym and GDR Cultural Politics 125
10. Reviving the Dead: Montage and Temporal Dislocation in Karls Enkel’s Liedertheater 143
11. Living Without Utopia: Four Women Writers’ Responses to the Demise of the GDR 163
12. A Worm’s Eye View and a Bird’s Eye View: Culture and Politics in Berlin since 1989 185
13. Remembering for the Future, Engaging with the Present: National Memory Management and the Dialectic of Normality in the “Berlin Republic” 201
14. “Wie kannst du mich lieben?”: “Normalizing” the Relationship between Germans and Jews in the 1990s Films Aimée und Jaguar and Meschugge 227
15. Models of the Intellectual in Contemporary France and Germany: Silence and Communication 245
16. Contributors 263
17. Index 265