Del 18 i serien Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism

In a Cold Crater

Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvWolfgang Schivelbusch

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Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century—Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War—are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when the capital of the world's recently defeated public enemy assumed great emotional and symbolic meaning.This is a story not of major intellectual and cultural achievements (for there were none in those years), but of enormous hopes and plans that failed. It is the story of members of the once famous volcano-dancing Berlin intelligentsia, torn apart by Nazism and exile, now re-encountering one another. Those who had stayed in Berlin in 1933 crawled out of the rubble, while many of the exiles returned with the Allied armies as members of the various cultural and re-educational units. All of them were eager to rebuild a neo-Weimar republic of letters, arts, and thought. Some were highly qualified and serious. Many were classic opportunists. A few came close to being clowns. After three years of "carnival," recreated by Schivelbusch in all its sound and fury, they were driven from the stage by the Cold War.As Berlin once again becomes the German capital, Schivelbusch's masterful cultural history is certain to captivate historians and general readers alike.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-04-20
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieWeimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor246
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520301214
ÖversättareKelly Barry

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PrefaceList of Abbreviations1. The PrizeMetropolis of Debris and the Pathos of DestructionAlbert Speer's Theory of Ruins • "Upright to an AstonishingDegree" • Berlin Lessons of the 1920s: JosephGoebbels and Franz Biberkopf · Historical Precursorsin the Occupation of Prize Cities: Jerusalem, Paris, Shanghai• Berlin and the World Revolution • British AmericanPlans for Conquest • Drawing Borders andthe Balance of Power • Sixty Days of UndividedRussian Sovereignty1930: YEAR OF CRISISThe Laboratory of Modernity • The IntellectualCold War before 1933"A MECHANICAL DECONGESTANT"The Benefit of Destruction for Modern Architecture TheCrater and the Garden"DREAMLAND"Real Surrealism, 1918 and 1945 • "Scenery fromthe Wrong Play"-Hotel Abyss in the Abyss •Conjuring the 1920s • Rich Opportunities,Meager ProductionsCULTURAL COMMANDOAllied Satraps • Officer Intellectuals A Reminiscence:German Cultural Politics in Paris, 1940-1944French Complexes • The English Model:Reschooling the Boers The American Model:Reschooling the South • German Exiles Russian"Kulturnost" NEP Dandies in the SMAD2. KulturkammerThe House on Schliiterstrasse Reichskulturkammer •The Ernst Group • Debuts: Elisabeth Dilthey, KlemensHerzberg, Alex Vogel • Otto Winzer and Paul WegenerFortune Hunters, Functionaries, Dignitaries AffairsBetween Union, Club, and Academy The End3. Theater BattlesAesthetic Islands in the Third Reich: The Staatstheaterand the Deutsches Theater • Jiirgen Fehling •The Rise and Fall of Gustav von Wangenheim •The Shadow of Gustaf Griindgens • WolfgangLanghoff and the Apparatus4· KulturbundBeginnings in Dahlem • Neo-Popular Front • TheInitator: Johannes R. Becher • The Bourgeois Partner:Ferdinand Friedensburg • Physical and SpiritualExile • Media, Assemblies, Clubs Figureheads •Opposition from the Right Opposition from the LeftFistfight in Wilmersdorf • The American Ban •Friedenburg's Last Attempt Friedenburg's ExpulsionMove to the Russian Sector • A Postmortem of SED •Intellectuals5· Radio"The Bear Purrs" A Fresh Start with Old Voices •Russian Enclave in the English Sector • The WesternResponse: DIAS and RIAS • Franz Wallner-BasteRuth Norden New Deal Liberals AnticommunistsMr. Brown • Enter William Heimlich MusicalPolitics • From High Culture to Entertainment •Radio Berlin: Heinz Schmidt and the Last Levy of theNondogmatic SED6. FilmThe Chaos of the Ufi Legacy • Private Initiatives •Film Plans in the Kammer • Wolf von Gordon andTheodor Baensch • The Central Administration forPopular Education • The Filmaktiv • Herbert Volkmann• Alfred Lindemann, Communist Adventurerand Organizer • Defa under Lindemann • Plans forGermany · Lindemann's FallHOLLYWOOD-BERLINFilm-Industry War Goals and Military-GovernmentPolicies • Erich Pommer's Appointment • Returnto Berlin • "The Rich Tradition of Poverty andIngenuity" Hollywood Attacks • The ViningDocument • Washington Intervenes7· Writers at LargeThe Press Quarter in Summer 1945-Peter deMendelssohn and Hans Habe • Erik Reger •The Tagesspiegel • "Of the Highest Standards"A Frankfurter Rundschau for Berlin?The Schweinichen CaseKURTZThe Curious Nacht-Express • The MiinzenbergModel • Rudolf Kurtz and Paul WieglerThe Mysterious Major FeldmannDIE WELTBUHNEThe First Round: Walther Karsch • Maud vonOssietzky, Hans Leonard, & Co. · Party LoansImpediments and Delays • Authors and Colleaguesin the First YearHARICHWolfgang Harich, Friedrich Luft, and the BruckeProject • Harich vs. Leonard • The Widow OustedEpilogueAppendix: Archives and InterviewsNotesIndex of Names