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Feigel, Lara and Oliver, Emily (2018) Introduction : narratives of identity and nationhood in occupied Germany. German Life and Letters, 71 (2). pp. 131-138. doi:10.1111/glal.12187 ISSN 0016-8777.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12187
Abstract
‘Frieden, das ist nur Schlamperei, erst der Krieg schafft Ordnung.’
These words from Brecht’s Mutter Courage may not have sounded as ironic to its first Berlin audiences in January 1949 as they do now. After four years of Allied occupation, with Soviets and Western Allies increasingly at odds and West Berlin completely cut off from its
surroundings and supported by airlift, peacetime may have seemed more of a mess than the war had. Since the beginning of the Allied occupation, those lucky enough to survive the war had faced hunger, homelessness, clothing and fuel shortages, and the coldest winter in living memory. The chaos following unconditional surrender in
1945 opened up a space for competing narratives – about Germany’s future, about its recent and more distant past, about political systems and ideologies, and not least, about art and culture’s role in re-shaping Germany.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | German literature | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | German Life and Letters | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0016-8777 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 71 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 131-138 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/glal.12187 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 March 2020 | ||||||||
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