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• Einleitung / Matthias Berg, Helmut Neuhaus
• Briefkultur(en) im bürgerlichen Zeitalter / Gangolf Hübinger
• Selbstzeugnisse in kulturhistiorischer Perspektive: Briefe, Tagebücher, Autobiographien / Michael Maurer
• Wissenschaftspolitik in Briefen: Althoff, Mommsen und Harnack / Stefan Rebenich
• Disziplinbildung und Briefkultur(en): Gelehrtenbriefe und Korrespondenzformen in der Germanistik des
• 19. Jahrhunderts / Hans-Harald Müller
• Eine Organisationsgeschichte in Briefen: Historikertage und Historikerverband um 1900 / Matthias Beg
• Werner Sombart und Robert Michels als Briefschreiber: Briefkultur, Sozialwissenschaft und Politik / Thomas Kroll, Friedrich Lenger
• Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik: Hans Delbrücks Korrespondenz als Herausgeber der "Preussischen Jahrbücher" / Jonas Klein
• Zorn, Spott, Verzweiflung: Die Briefe Johannes Hallers, emotionsgeschichtlich gelesen / Benjamin Hasselhorn
• Briefe zwischen Freund und Feind? Belgische Historiker und ihre Korrespondenz-Netzwerke mit Deutschland / Geneviève Warland
• Vom Mittelpunkt des FAches in die Ausgrenzung: Hermann Onckens Korrespondenz zwischen Weimarer Republik und Nationalsozialismus / Philip Rosin
• Konturen eines Netzwerks: Albert Brackmanns Korrespondenz zwischen Mediävistik und "Ostforschung" / Martin Koschny
• Briefe als Rettungsanker: Zur Korrespondenz deutschsprachiger Historikerinnen und Historiker in der britischen Emigration ab 1933 / Birte Meinschien
• Deutsch-jüdische Historikerbriefwechsel nach
• 1945: Zum Erkenntnispotential enier antagonistischen Konstellation / Nicolas Berg
• Briefkultur im historischen Herrschaftsdiskurs der DDR / Martin Sabrow
• Historikerbriefe in den "Deutschen Geschichtsquellen des
• 19. Jahrhunderts" / Hans-Christoph Kraus
• Karl Hegels editorische Praxis im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz seit den 1850er Jahren / Marion Kreis
• Weshalb es sich lohnt, die Briefe eines Unbekannten zu edieren / Folker Reichert
• Edieren im digitalen Zetialter: Die Ernst Haeckel Online-Briefedition / Roman Göbel

• The British Press
• Hitler Becomes Chancellor
• The Destruction of Democracy
• The Manchester Guardian and the Terror in Germany: A Special Case
• The Second Revolution? The Röhm Purge
• 'Cross and Swastika': The Struggle for the Churches in Germany
• The Nazi Persecution of the Jews.

"What was known and understood about the nature of the Nazi dictatorship prior to war in 1939? How was Nazism viewed by those outside of Germany? The British Press and Nazi Germany considers these questions through the lens of the British press. In using material that has been neglected, Kylie Galbraith examines what the British press reported about life inside the Nazi dictatorship. In doing so, the book imparts new and important insights into what was known and understood about the Nazi revolution"-- Provided by publisher.

• The OT in Hitler's empire
• Plunder in Europe
• The OT in the Nazi system
• Slave labourers under the OT
• Engineers as slave drivers
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Maps, documents and tables.

"This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full extent of the organisation's brutal and murderous operations across occupied Europe and in the Reich. For the first time, Charles Dick provides a strong voice for camp survivors overseen by the OT, drawing on an extensive collection of personal accounts and analysing the violence they endured"-- Provided by publisher.

• Taking democracy seriously
• Mediating the values of the civic space
• People of different views
• A changing concept of equality
• The democracy training programme
• Karlsruhe and the people.

"Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and the inter-relationship between citizens and state. Drawing on constitutional history, law, and political theory, David Miles argues that constitutionalism cannot be seen merely as an institutional mechanism to limit government, since it also has a crucial civic dimension upon which the liberal state depends. Utilising the works of Böckenförde, Arendt, and Tocqueville, constitutionalism is conceived in the book as part of a broader system of communal norms which sustains representative democracy and liberalism. Through an analysis of judicial interventions in the electoral processes of the United States and Germany, Miles explores the role of civil society actors in transforming constitutionalism through legal challenges to oligarchical or exclusionary practices. He assesses how, in adjudicating these cases, the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court have mediated the tension between threats to stability and the imperative of democratic renewal. Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in comparative politics, political theory, and constitutional law and history"-- Provided by publisher.

• 'Leisel, it's time for you to leave.' Departure
• Digression: 'Dear Liesel, there are still so many questions.' A Trip to Bombay
• 'This morning I got a letter from Jack.' A way out for Helmut
• 'Dear Liesel, Urug. is no longer an option." What happened to the parents?
• 'An alien of a most excellent type.' The war years in London
• 'Thinking of Germany.' From a broken picture book
• 'Your home.' Reconnecting
• Digression: 'Now in ruins.' The house in the Götzenturmstrasse
• 'How was the wine harvest?' Heilbronn from afar.

"Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbron to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz, to the reunion with the brother and parents and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust, her story sheds new light on the Jewish experience of persecution during the Holocaust and adds nuances to current debates on emigration, memory and writing, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Notes on Usage
• Travel Account and Biography of Johann Peter Oettinger
• Appendix: Documents for Comparison
• An Annotated Guide to Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series: Studies in Early Modern German History

"Addressing the need for a synoptic study of the diverse reception that Stoicism has received in German philosophy, this volume assesses how modern German philosophers have incorporated ancient resources in the context of their philosophy. Chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical giants such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Peter Sloterdijk; amongst the Stoics, focus is on texts by Seneca and Epictetus, as well as others neglected by non-specialists. This book brings ancient texts into new dialogues with up-to-date scholarship, facilitating increased understanding, critical evaluation, and creative innovation within the continental response to Stoicism"-- Provided by publisher.

Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.-- Provided by publisher

• Kielmeyer's fame and fate / Kai Torsten Kanz
• On the relations between organic forces in the series of different organisations, and on the laws and consequences of these relations / C.F. Kielmeyer
• On natural history / C.F. Kielmeyer
• Ideas for a developmental history of the Earth and its organisations : letter to Windischmann, 1804 / C.F. Kielmeyer
• On Kant and German philosophy of nature : letter to Cuvier, 1807 / C.F. Kielmeyer
• Force and law in Kielmeyer's 1793 speech / Andrew Cooper
• Organic physics as a phenomenology of the organic / Thomas Bach
• The path of the great machine : Kielmeyer's economy of extinction / Lydia Azadpour
• Recapitulation all the way down? Philosophical ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling / Iain Hamilton Grant
• Kielmeyer and the cybernetics of the organic world / Andrea Gambarotto
• Reproduction, production and the earth : the place of sex in Kielmeyer's 'Economy of the organic world' / Susanne Lettow
• Mechanics beyond the machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer / Jocelyn Holland
• The logic of organic forces : Hegel's critique of Kielmeyer / Benjamin Berger.

"Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. This exciting new book contains the first ever English translations of Kielmeyer's key texts, along with contextual essays by leading scholars expert in the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences. Topics covered include: the laws of nature, the meaning of 'organism', Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. As such these essays provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Prisoners Of War And The German Women
• The Legal Framework
• The Relations
• Discovery
• The Trials
• Behind Bars
• Case Studies
• Memory
• Conclusion: Resistance, Dissent, Opposition?

"Love Between Enemies explores the forbidden relationships which formed between foreign prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. From the desire to have fun to deep love commitments, this study examines the range of motivations which lay behind these relationships, tapping into new documents and drawing on thousands of court cases to offer a transnational analysis of personal relations between enemies. Highlighting gender roles, the contradictory reactions of the communities surrounding the couples, and the diplomatic tensions resulting from the severe punishments, this is a history of everyday life which throws light on this subversive aspect of intimacy in wartime Nazi Germany. Comparing the "transgressing" couples to other groups persecuted for their cultural or private choices, Scheck demonstrates how the relationships were silenced or justified in the post-war memory of prisoners, while the German women, who had been publicly shamed, continued to live with the stigma, and even illegitimate children, for the years that followed"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction. Deutschland
• Echt jetzt? German Popular Music's Complicated Relationship with German Identity / Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, and David-Emil Wickström ; Interview : Rocking the Academy? Two Cold-War Careers and the Emergence of Popular Music Studies and Higher Popular Music Education in Germany / An Interview with Peter Wicke and Udo Dahmen / David-Emil Wickström
• Historical Spotlights. Transnational Networks and Intermedial Interfaces in German Popular Music, 1900-1939 / Caroline Stahrenberg ; Nazis and Quiet Sounds : Popular Music, Simulated Normality, and Cultural Niches in the Terror Regime, 1933-45 / Jens Gerrit Papenburg ; Conflicting Identities : The Meaning and Significance of Popular Music in the GDR / Michael Rauhut ; 'Party on the Death Strip'
• Reflections on an Historical Turning Point ; Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer
• Globally German. The Krauts Are Coming : Electronic Music and Rock in the 1970s / Ulrich Adelt ; German Metal Attack : Power Metal in and from Germany / Jan-Peter Herbst ; German Longings : A Dialogue on the Promises and Dangers of National Stereotypes / Melanie Schiller and Jeroen de Kloet
• Also "Made in Germany". Peepl rock : Post-Soviet Popular Music in Germany / David-Emil Wickström ; Made in Almanya : The Birth of Turkish Rap / Thomas Solomon ; G.I. Blues and German Schlager : The Politics of Popular Music in Germany during the Cold War / Bodo Mrozek ; Explicitly German. Neue Deutsche Welle : Tactical Affirmation as a Strategy of Subversion / Barbara Hornberger ; "One Day You Will Wish We'd Only Played Music" : Some Remarks on Recent Developments of Germany's RechtsRock Scene / Thorsten Hindrichs ; Hallo Blumenau , bom dia Brasil! German Music Beyond Germany / Julio Mendívil
• Reluctantly German. "Meine Lieder sind anders" : Hildegard Knef and the Idea(l) of German Chanson / René Michaelsen ; How Munich and Frankfurt Brought (Electronic) Dance Music to the Top of the International Charts with Eurodisco and Eurodance
• and Why Germany Was Not Involved / Heiko Wandler ; Japonisme 2.0 : German visual-kei Fans, Tokio Hotel, and the Popular Music Genre That Must Not Exist / Oliver Seibt
• Coda. The Germaican Connection
• German Reggae Abroad / Martin Ringsmut ; Interview : Standing Up Against Discrimination and Exclusion : An Interview with Kutlu Yurtseven (Microphone Mafia) / Monika E. Schoop.

"Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Germany and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Germany, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Historical Spotlights; Globally German; Also "Made in Germany"; Explicitly German; and Reluctantly German"-- Provided by publisher.

"Pendant une année, Justine Augier fait l'aller-retour entre Paris, où elle habite pour la première fois depuis la fin de ses études, et Berlin où elle rend visite à Yassin al-Haj Saleh, un des esprits les plus libres et les plus lucides de la dissidence contre le régime d'Al-Assad, pour remonter avec lui le fil de sa vie syrienne, de son exil forcé, d'une histoire personnelle intimement tressée à celle, violente, de son pays (seize années dans les prisons du père avant de rejoindre la révolution contre le fils). Accompagnant son apprivoisement de ce nouveau temporaire berlinois, elle arpente avec Yassin son trajet de lecteur, étroitement lié à l'expérience carcérale, et sa rencontre par les livres avec la pensée et les écrivains européens de l'après-guerre, au premier rang desquels Hannah Arendt et Walter Benjamin. Par une espèce de miracle nous ouvre ce dialogue fécond qui explore les points de résonance entre la tragédie de la Syrie et le passé de l'Europe, avec la volonté urgente de croire que la justice pourrait rendre au peuple syrien la dignité que sa révolution écrasée a tenté d'arracher, et dessiner une alternative au désespoir."--Page 4 of cover.

"Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that women played on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Chapter 1. An Unconventional Student and Rabbi
• Chapter 2. Restoring the Dignity of Judaism
• Chapter 3. Rabbi in the World War
• Chapter 4. A Thinker Engaged
• Chapter 5. The Burden of Leadership
• Chapter 6. Enmeshed
• Chapter 7 Theresienstadt
• Chapter 8. Reality After Catastrophe
• Epilogue. The Icon and the Person
• Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Acknowledgments.
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Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry. Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck's place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck's own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age.
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• Preface
• Chapter 1. An Unconventional Student and Rabbi
• Chapter 2. Restoring the Dignity of Judaism
• Chapter 3. Rabbi in the World War
• Chapter 4. A Thinker Engaged
• Chapter 5. The Burden of Leadership
• Chapter 6. Enmeshed
• Chapter 7 Theresienstadt
• Chapter 8. Reality After Catastrophe
• Epilogue. The Icon and the Person
• Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Acknowledgments.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry. Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck's place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck's own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age.
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The music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that effect, the author raises fundamental questions that have thus far remained unaddressed: What textual features characterize the critical writings? How do Schumann and Wagner understand their roles as critics of music? And in what way do they reach out to the reader? Rather than understanding these critical writings exclusively as a gateway to the compositions and musical aesthetics of Schumann and Wagner, this book analyzes the texts through the lens of pragmatics, narratology and discourse analysis. Using this interdisciplinary perspective, the author proposes to understand Schumann and Wagner within the broader medial and discursive context of German `Kritik'. He challenges the dominant narrative that brands Schumann and Wagner as elitist Romantic critics, demonstrating instead that they actively encourage their readers to form their own judgements. This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of German literature, periodicals and music alike.
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