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Description

1. xv, 278 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "The meaning of "culture" today has expanded to include almost everything that surrounds people in their daily life, but today's usage would have baffled the influential ideological opinion makers of the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1933 and 1945 most members of all three groups--the Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exile--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, 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. 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 Austin (Texas), Harvard, Berlin, Bremen, Marburg, Giessen, Kassel, Essen, Freiburg, Oldenburg, Potsdam, and Munich. He is an ACLS Fellow, recipient of the Hilldale Award for Academic Excellence, fellow of the Vienna Academy, member of the Saxon Academy in Leipzig, and holds an honorary PhD from the University of Kassel. His research and teaching encompass German literature and culture since 1750, with special emphasis on democratic traditions, German-Jewish relations, fascism, and Germany after 1945, as well as on schools of criticism and a comparative arts approach to German culture."--Publisher's website.

Uniform title

1. Kultur in finsteren Zeiten. English

Alternative title

1. Kultur in finsteren Zeiten.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Geschichte 1933-1945
3. Fascism and culture > Germany > History > 20th century
4. National socialism > Social aspects
5. Ideology > Germany > History > 20th century
6. Social distance > Germany > History > 20th century
7. Exiles > Germany > History > 20th century
8. National socialism and art
9. Arts, German > 20th century
10. Social distance > History > 20th century
11. Germany > Cultural policy > History > 20th century
12. Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
13. Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Three Claims to Cultural Representation -- [1]. Nazi Fascism -- Cultural-Political Preconditions -- Enemy Stereotypes -- Stated Objectives -- The Ideal of an "Eternally German" Culture -- Approaches to Practical Implementation -- Consequences for the Arts -- Architecture -- Painting and Sculpture -- Music -- Literature -- Theater -- Radio, Film, and the Press -- Class-Specific Successes of National Socialist Cultural Policies -- [2]. Inner Emigration -- Between Aversion and Accommodation -- Forms of Artistic Expression -- Literature -- Painting and Sculpture -- Music -- [3]. Exile -- Fragmentation of the German Exile Community -- Places of Refuge -- Possibilities for an Effective Antifascism -- Consequences for the Arts -- Literature -- Theater -- Film -- Painting, Graphic Art, and Photomontage -- Music -- Visions of a "Liberated" Culture in Post-Fascist Germany.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "German-language edition c2010 Böhlau Verlag ... [as] Kultur in finsteren Zeiten : Nazifaschismus, Innere Emigration, Exil"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. committed to retain