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Ruptures in the everyday
During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work \"on the ground.\"
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Ruptures in the everyday : views of modern Germany from the ground
\"During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories--and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work \"on the ground.\"\"--Provided by publisher.
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Ordinary Germans in extraordinary times : the Nazi revolution in Hildesheim
Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. Ordinary
Germans in Extraordinary Times is a carefully drawn account of how townspeople went
about their lives and reacted to events during the Nazi era. Andrew Stuart Bergerson
argues that ordinary Germans did in fact make Germany and Europe more fascist, more
racist, and more modern during the 1930s, but they disguised their involvement
behind a pre-existing veil of normalcy. Bergerson details a way
of being, believing, and behaving by which ordinary Germans imagined
their powerlessness and absence of responsibility even as they collaborated in the
Nazi revolution. He builds his story on research that includes anecdotes of everyday
life collected systematically from newspapers, literature, photography, personal
documents, public records, and especially extensive interviews with a representative
sample of residents born between 1900 and 1930. The book
considers the actual customs and experiences of friendship and neighborliness in a
German town before, during, and after the Third Reich. By analyzing the customs of
conviviality in interwar Hildesheim, and the culture of normalcy these customs
invoked, Bergerson aims to help us better understand how ordinary Germans
transformed neighbors into Jews or
Aryans.
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The Happy Burden of History
Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their violent claims to mastery with a sense of 'sovereign impunity.' They then recuperate the same strategies of selfhood for our contemporary world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can empower and encourage us to bear the burden of historical responsibility ? and be happy doing so.
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Ruptures in the Everyday
During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories-and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect.Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigatesAlltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work \"on the ground.\"
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The Ongoing Rewards of Collaboration, Intermediality, and Multivocality in the Humanities: Reflections on the Multimedia Project Trug&Schein
This article showcases a collaborative multimedia digital humanities project,
Trug&Schein, in order to reflect on the process of
history writing. The coauthors draw on their experiences creating and producing
a documentary play based on the correspondence between the two everyday Germans
whose letters form the basis of Trug&Schein. Having
co-created several kinds of materials in multiple media in support of the
English and German versions of their play, the coauthors opened themselves to
further collaborations with theater practitioners, citizen and academic
scholars, and audiences at the stagings and at workshops. As various groups
interacted with the diverse documents and artifacts that make up the project,
the coauthors became increasingly aware of metanarrative analogies between their
source materials and the texts, videos, and discussions they were creating. They
found that collaboration, intermediality, and multivocality enabled them, and
many of the other participants, to recognize the participatory character of
historical work.
Journal Article
The Ongoing Rewards of Collaboration, Intermediality, and Multivocality in the Humanities: Refl ections on the Multimedia Project Trug&Schein
This article showcases a collaborative multimedia digital humanities project, Trug&Schein, in order to reflect on the process of history writing. The coauthors draw on their experiences creating and producing a documentary play based on the correspondence between the two everyday Germans whose letters form the basis of Trug&Schein. Having co-created several kinds of materials in multiple media in support of the English and German versions of their play, the coauthors opened themselves to further collaborations with theater practitioners, citizen and academic scholars, and audiences at the stagings and at workshops. As various groups interacted with the diverse documents and artifacts that make up the project, the coauthors became increasingly aware of metanarrative analogies between their source materials and the texts, videos, and discussions they were creating. They found that collaboration, intermediality, and multivocality enabled them, and many of the other participants, to recognize the participatory character of historical work.
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