Following the emergence of National Socialism, several German-Jewish photographers and filmmakers went into exile. A small number of them arrived in Mandate Palestine and greatly influenced the Zionist visual culture of the following decades. This talk focuses on two veterans … Read more
In August 1846, Jacob Grimm wrote a letter to the Prussian king to encourage him to invade Schleswig-Holstein in order to protect the resident German-speaking population against attempts by Denmark to consolidate Danish rule over the areas. The philologist Grimm … Read more
This lecture is part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series, co-convened by the UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University departments of history. During the Cold War, a competition emerged between East and West Germany over their political … Read more
This presentation explores the rise in popularity of African American classical musicians in interwar Germany and Austria. Singing Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and others, they challenged audiences’ expectations of what a black performer looked and sounded like in the transatlantic ‘jazz age.’ … Read more
This presentation explores the rise in popularity of African American classical musicians in interwar Germany and Austria. Singing Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and others, they challenged audiences’ expectations of what a black performer looked and sounded like in the transatlantic 'jazz age.' … Read more
Shame is a well-known feature of German cultural memory of national socialism. Whereas research on cultural memory often concentrated on public and political representations, the personal feelings of shame frequently in family memories were ignored. The talk will explore expressions … Read more
A melancholic thread in assessments of the end of the Cold War, the triumph of liberal democracy and capitalism over “really existing socialism” led academics and public intellectuals to pronounce the end of utopian ambitions. Some West Germans, however, resisted … Read more
