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| Author | : Wilhelm Hauff |
| Publisher | : Good Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2023-07-10 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : |
"The humour of Germany" by Wilhelm Hauff, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Tieck, Edward Mörike. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
| Author | : Fritz Karl Michael Hillenbrand |
| Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 1995-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0415097851 |
Not all Germans living under Hitler succumbed passively to the rhetoric and horror of the Nazi regime. Covert popular opposition in the form of humorous resistance was wider spread than is commonly thought. Embracing jokes, stories and 60 cartoons, this is the only collection in English of underground anti-Nazi humour. It is, as such, an invaluable contribution to the social history of twentieth century Germany.
| Author | : Martina Kessel |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442642920 |
The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes--while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm group identity and to exclude those who did not belong. The essays in this collection analyse the political and social context of comedy in Europe and the United States, exploring topics ranging from the shifting targets of ethnic jokes to the incorporation of humour into wartime broadcasting and the uses of satire as a means of resistance. Comedy continues to define the nature of group membership today, and The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Rudolph Herzog |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1935554301 |
The first ever history of humour directed at the Nazis: from the anti-Nazi theatre scene of the 20s and 30s, to jokes told during WWII, to the cracks told about Hitler in Germany today. In the light of the horrors he committed, many people in Germany still find difficulty and distaste in laughing at Hitler - indeed, those who do are often accused of trivialising the Holocaust. But there is a long history of telling jokes about the Nazis. Collected by acclaimed director Rudolph Herzog, Dead Funny chronicles this fascinating and often frightening history.
| Author | : Lesley Milne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2016-01-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1443887684 |
War is no laughing matter. During a war, however, laughter can play a vital role in sustaining morale, both in the armies at the Front and in their homelands. Among wars, the 1914–18 conflict has left a haunting legacy, and remains a central topic in modern European history. This book offers a comparative study of the impact of the war in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at. By searching the pages of four humorous-satirical magazines, Punch in the UK, Le Rire (France), Simplicissimus (Germany), and Novy Satirikon (Russia), all of which supported the national war efforts, it examines the ways in which humour made an important contribution to the propaganda war. All four magazines were famous for their cartoons, a selection of which is included, but much of the humour was expressed through the written word, in skits, squibs, comic tales, and light verse. Translated into English, these snapshots of the moment are brought together to chart the responses on both sides of the conflict to issues and unfolding events, identifying the stories that nations liked to tell about themselves and also the ones they liked to be told.
| Author | : Roger Boyes |
| Publisher | : Summersdale |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2008-04-07 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 085765294X |
Facing bankruptcy, English journalist Roger is advised by his accountant to make use of a legal loophole: in Germany married couples have their tax bill halved. So the search is on for a German bride. Writing incisively and almost without prejudice, Roger Boyes describes the peculiarities of everyday life in Germany in this laugh-out-loud romp.
| Author | : Jill Twark |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2011-01-18 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1443827819 |
The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification with the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel’s Lärchenau, Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (Antrag auf ständige Ausreise und andere Mythen der DDR) and Wladimir Kaminer (Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus) are interpreted as examples of the grotesque. The popular films Lola rennt, Sonnenallee, Herr Lehmann, NVA, Alles auf Zucker!, and Mein Führer—Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler are reexamined through the lens of traditional and more recent humor or comic book theories. The contributors focus on how each artwork enriches four prominent postwall German cultural trends: post-unification identity reconstruction, Vergangenheitsbewältigung (including Hitler humor), New German Popular Literature (Christian Kracht’s ironic subtexts), and immigrant perspectives (a “third voice” in the East-West binary reflected here pointedly in Eulenspiegel cartoons). To date, no other scholarly work provides as comprehensive an overview of the diverse strategies of humor used in the past two decades in German-speaking countries.
| Author | : Elisabeth Vanderheiden |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 675 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031522885 |
| Author | : Timur Vermes |
| Publisher | : MacLehose Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2015-05-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1623653347 |
HE'S BACK AND HE'S FUHRIOUS! "Desperately funny . . . An ingenious comedy of errors." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Satire at its best." --Newsweek "Thrillingly transgressive." --The Guardian A NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING PICK In this record-breaking bestseller, Timur Vermes imagines what would happen if Adolf Hilter reawakened in present-day Germany: YouTube stardom. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. It's the summer of 2011 and things have changed--no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognizes his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognize him--as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, and people begin to listen. But the Fuhrer has another program with even greater ambition in mind--to set the country he finds in shambles back to rights. With daring humor, Look Who's Back is a perceptive study of the cult of personality and of how individuals rise to fame and power in spite of what they preach.
| Author | : Stefan Zeidenitz |
| Publisher | : Xenophobe's Guides |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Germans |
| ISBN | : 9781906042332 |
Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.
