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The miracle years : a cultural history of West Germany, 1949-1968

Title: The miracle years : a cultural history of West Germany, 1949-1968 / edited by Hanna Schissler.
Publication: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Schissler, Hanna.

Description

ix, 498 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Exploring postwar German history, literature and film, this text examines the lives of real people to learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture.

Series Statement

Princeton paperbacks

Subject

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.
Konferenzschrift.

Note

Based on a conference held at the University of Minnesota in 1996.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-478) and index.

Contents

Introduction, Writing about 1950s West Germany / Hanna Schissler -- Hour of the woman : memories of Germany's "crisis years" and West German national identity / Elizabeth Heineman -- Survivors of totalitarianism : returning POWs and the reconstruction of masculine citizenship in West Germany, 1945-1955 / Frank Biess -- Remembering the war in a nation of victims : West German pasts in the 1950s / Robert G. Moeller -- Mission to happiness : the cohort of 1949 and the making of East and West Germans / Dorothee Wierling -- Uneasy existence : Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945 / Juliane Wetzel -- Heimat in turmoil : African-American GIs in 1950s West Germany / Maria Höhn -- Of German mothers and "Negermischlingskinder" : race, sex, and the postwar nation / Heide Fehrenbach -- Guest workers and policy on guest workers in the Federal Republic from the beginning of recruitment in 1955 until its halt in 1973 / Ulrich Herbert and Karin Hunn -- Ever-present other : Communism in the making of West Germany / Eric D. Weitz -- "Normalization" in the West : traces of memory leading back into the 1950s / Lutz Niethammer -- Film in the 1950s : passing images of guilt and responsibility / Frank Stern -- Memory and commerce, gender and restoration : Wolfgang Staudt's Roses for the State Prosecutor (1959) and West German film in the 1950s / Richard McCormick.
Creating a cocoon of public acquiescence : the author-reader relationship in postwar German literature / Frank Trommler -- Recasting bourgeois Germany / Volker R. Berghahn -- From starvation to excess? : trends in the consumer society from the 1940s to the 1970s / Arnold Sywottek -- "Normalization" as project : some thoughts on gender relations in West Germany during the 1950s / Hanna Schissler -- Cold War angst : the case of West-German opposition to rearmament and nuclear weapons / Michael Geyer -- New, "western" hero? : reconstructing German masculinity in the 1950s / Uta G. Poiger -- Establishing cultural democracy : youth, "Americanization," and the irresistible rise of popular culture / Kaspar Maase -- "Miracle" of the political-cultural shift : democratization between Americanization and conservative reintegration / Diethelm Prowe -- Epilogue, Rebels in search of a cause / Hanna Schissler.

ISBN

0691058199
9780691058191
0691058202
9780691058207

LCCN

00039974
9780691058207

OCLC

ocm43851572
43851572
SCSB-1200081

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library