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Author : Hermann Selchow
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ISBN 13 : 9783384108609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Art & Literature in East Germany written by Hermann Selchow and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hermann Selchow
Publisher : Hermann Selchow
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Total Pages : 117 pages
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Download or read book Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines written by Hermann Selchow and published by Hermann Selchow. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear reader, Anyone expecting a melancholic epitaph for a bygone era in my book "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" will be disappointed. I myself grew up in East Germany and spent half of my life there. There is nothing politically desirable about that time, and nothing of it should be repeated. The other half I spent in united Germany, and while some aspects could have been better, many were indeed better. One had the freedom to adapt or to drift through the years. That seems to be changing lately. What needs to be said sometimes becomes unspeakable. Thoughts must occasionally be rethought. Some words withdraw back between the lines and must be found there. In this context, I want to introduce you to my book - a collection of stories and history about courage, resistance, and creativity during a time of oppression and political change. "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" is a book that captures the secret voices of the artists who lived and worked during the time of the German Democratic Republic. Their stories were often told in secret, hidden between the lines of their works and away from the eyes of censors. They may serve as examples of people who dared to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable, despite speech and thought prohibitions. East Germany was marked by an ideological dictatorship in which artists faced numerous challenges. Art was viewed by the party as a means of propaganda and solidifying the socialist regime. Every artistic expression was carefully monitored and controlled. However, despite these restrictive conditions, many found ways to express their ideas and criticisms by pushing the boundaries of what was allowed or subtly resisting the system. In this book, we will immerse ourselves in the world of East German art, which provides insight into the lives of artists who confronted the painful realities of everyday life with their creativity and resistance. The stories you will read here are a mixture of personal experiences, historical events, and art historical analysis. They tell of the difficulties artists faced in East Germany and the innovative methods they used to convey their messages nonetheless. It is my special purpose to present this book to the public and give voice to artists who have been overlooked for too long. Their stories are worth remembering, and they necessarily deserve to be heard again. By engaging with their art and life stories, we can recognize not only the challenges and sacrifices of the past but also the necessity and courage of these extraordinary individuals. This book should also be an invitation to view East German art from a new and more current perspective. It is important to emphasize that this book cannot provide a complete representation of art in East Germany. There are many more artists whose stories have yet to be told. Nevertheless, I hope it serves as a first step in drawing attention to this fascinating and often neglected chapter of art history. My hope is that this book contributes to raising awareness of the importance of art as a means of expression and resistance. The stories you will read in this book are not just a reflection of past times but also an encouragement to uphold the values of freedom, expression, and humanity in every society. It is an invitation for future generations to prevent the truth from needing to be sought between the lines once again. As a reader, you now have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of art in East Germany, to hear the voices of the artists, and to discover the diversity of their works. Dive into the thoughts and emotions embedded in every brushstroke, every line, and every note. Be prepared to be surprised, inspired, and moved. Yours sincerely, Hermann Selchow
Author : Justus Rosenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062742213
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Art of Resistance written by Justus Rosenberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA Today An American Library in Paris Book Award "Coups de Coeur" Selection The Art of Resistance is unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has spent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American college students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of wartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor Rosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, when he risked everything to stand against evil. In 1937, after witnessing a violent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came again, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris, heading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and women—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimate understanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as a spy and scout. After the Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble, recruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four years, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his wits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found himself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz—and yet Justus found an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering intelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the Mediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became a guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the German retreat across France. At the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught literature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students. Now he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: The Art of Resistance is a powerful saga of bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a professor’s wisdom.
Author : Gerrit-Jan Berendse
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800730691
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Echoes of Surrealism written by Gerrit-Jan Berendse and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused literature and art across the lifespan of the GDR, focusing on individual authors, visual artists, directors, musicians, and other figures who have employed surrealist techniques in their work. It provides a new framework for understanding East German culture, exploring aesthetic practices that offered an alternative to rigid government policies and questioned and confronted the status quo.
Author : Sonja Fritzsche
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107391
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction Literature in East Germany written by Sonja Fritzsche and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Author : Seán Allan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339680
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Screening Art written by Seán Allan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage. Spanning newsreels, documentaries, and feature films, Screening Art is the first full-length investigation into a genre that has been largely overlooked in studies of DEFA, the state-owned Eastern German film studio. As it shows, “artist-films” played an essential role in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in postwar Europe.
Author : GERRIT-JAN. BERENDSE
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ISBN 13 : 9781805397205
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (972 download)
Download or read book ECHOES OF SURREALISM written by GERRIT-JAN. BERENDSE and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Robinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781571131638
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing East Germany written by David W. Robinson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robinson analyzes Hein's plays, short stories, and novels within a context of East German political intrigue and cultural policy. He devotes particular attention to Hein's prose fiction, which has achieved Anglo-American recognition with the translation of two novels. The Distant Lover and The Tango Player."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 592 pages
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Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295530
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe written by Marcel Cornis-Pope and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that traditional national histories have ignored or deliberately suppressed. The four volumes of the History configure the literatures from five angles: (1) key political events, (2) literary periods and genres, (3) cities and regions, (4) literary institutions, and (5) real and imaginary figures. The first volume, which includes the first two of these dimensions, is a collaborative effort of more than fifty contributors from Eastern and Western Europe, the US, and Canada.The four volumes of the History comprise the first volume in the new subseries on Literary Cultures.
Author : Helma Kaldewey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486185
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A People's Music written by Helma Kaldewey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of jazz over the complete lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, for the first time.
Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007567
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II written by Peter Weiss and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary event, the publication of the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned writer best known for his play Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of Resistance spans the period from the late 1930s to World War II, dramatizing antifascist resistance and the rise and fall of proletarian political parties in Europe. Volume II, initially published in 1978, opens with the unnamed narrator in Paris after having retreated from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. From there, he moves on to Stockholm, where he works in a factory, becomes involved with the Communist Party, and meets Bertolt Brecht. Featuring the narrator's extended meditations on paintings, sculpture, and literature, the novel teems with characters, almost all of whom are based on historical figures. Throughout, the narrator explores the affinity between political resistance and art—the connection at the heart of Weiss's novel. Weiss suggests that meaning lies in embracing resistance, no matter how intense the oppression, and that we must look to art for new models of political action and social understanding. The Aesthetics of Resistance is one of the truly great works of postwar German literature and an essential resource for understanding twentieth-century German history.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004455078
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book In the Party Spirit written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 702 pages
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Author : Stefan Heym
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ISBN 13 : 9780879751074
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
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