Science Fiction Literature In East Germany
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| Author | : Sonja Fritzsche |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9783039107391 |
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
| Author | : Sonja Fritzsche |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780820480015 |
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
| Author | : Ingo Cornils |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Science fiction films |
| ISBN | : 1640140352 |
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
| Author | : Anindita Banerjee |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781787075931 |
The first collection of its kind, this anthology documents a radically different geography and history of science fiction in the world. Focusing on the extensive cultural networks across the global South and East, the essays explore transnational networks and exchange of ideas between the Carribean, Latin America, African America, Russia, and Asia.
| Author | : Norman Spinrad |
| Publisher | : Norman Spinrad |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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| Author | : Séan Allan |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2016-09-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 178533106X |
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic—to the extent it was considered at all—was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value. Since then, interest in East German cinema has exploded, inspiring innumerable festivals, books, and exhibits on the GDR’s rich and varied filmic output. In Re-Imagining DEFA, leading international experts take stock of this vibrant landscape and plot an ambitious course for future research, one that considers other cinematic traditions, brings genre and popular works into the fold, and encompasses DEFA’s complex post-unification “afterlife.”
| Author | : Hester Vaizey |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198718748 |
The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin Wall - and what they feel about life after the Wall.
| Author | : Walter Kempowski |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2018-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681372061 |
A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.
| Author | : Sonja Fritzsche |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1781380384 |
The first comprehensive companion to science fiction film as a global, rather than solely Anglo-American, concern.
| Author | : Tobias Hochscherf |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2010-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1845456467 |
The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the “German question” in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War until its end. This volume explores how social and cultural practices in both German states between 1949 and 1989 were shaped by the existence of this inner border, putting them on opposing sides of the ideological divide between the Western and Eastern blocs, as well as stabilizing relations between them. This volume’s interdisciplinary approach addresses important intersections between history, politics, and culture, offering an important new appraisal of the German experiences of the Cold War.
