Heimat - A German Dream

Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-815923-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. Four phases parallel Germany's discontinuous history: Heimat literature as a response to modernization and to regional tensions before the First World War; the inter-war period when Heimat divided into racist ideology, left-wing opposition, and inner resistance to the Third Reich; a post-war dialectic between escapist 1950s Heimat films and right-wing claims to the lost lands in the East to which anti-Heimat theatre and films in the 1960s and 1970s were a response, with the urban Heimat in GDR films adding a socialist twist; regionalism and green politics in the 1980s and German identity beyond Cold War divisions. A key point of reference in current debates on German history, Heimat looks likely to continue in postmodern and multicultural mode.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boa, Elizabeth

Palfreyman, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: Mapping the Terrain

- 2: Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions

- 3: A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt

- 4: (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre

- 5: At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film

- 6: Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil Nolde and Heimatkunst, Michael Verhoeven's Das schreckliche Mädchen

- 7: Homeward-bound: Edgar Reitz's Heimat for the 1980s

- 8: Heimat Regained, Dissolved, or Multiplied?

- Chronology

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Boa is Professor of German, University of Nottingham and author of Kafka: Gender, Class, Race in the Letters and Fictions (OUP, 1996)

Rachel Palfreyman is Professor of German, University of Nottingham