Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990, Hardcover - Gerrit-Jan Berendse

For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jar...

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This first full history of jazz over the lifespan of East Germany, from 1945 to 1990, draws on previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness a...

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Wolf von Aichelburg · Hans Bergel · Andreas Birkner Ingmar Brantsch · Oskar Walter Cisek · Arnold Hauser Franz Heinz · Franz Hodjak · Klaus Kessler...

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The two Germanies, arising from the unpromising ashes of defeated Nazi Germany, came to represent opposing models of state and society.

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Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War...

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In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures...

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The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

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DescriptionHans Sch ufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945...

This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes the such writers as Thackeray, Dost...

DescriptionErnst J nger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important--and most controversial--writers. Decorated for bravery in World War ...

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