Hermand (German, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) studies why "the most artistically ambitious art forms [were] still viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semicultured) Germans in the per
BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945 MEMBERS OF THREE GROUPS-THE Nazi fascists, Inner Emigration, and Exiles-fought with equal fervor over who could definitively claim to represent the authentically "great German cu
This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner’s ideological position in German history. The issues discussed range from the biographical—the rea
Up to the end of the nineteenth century, Germany largely perceived itself as "the nation of poets and philosophers." But with the enormous popularity of Schubert and Wagner, this beg
The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the per
Between 1933 and 1945, millions of German children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be
