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Changing Cultural Tastes

Writers and the Popular in Modern Germany

Anthony Waine

208 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-522-4 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (December 2007)

eISBN 978-1-80073-407-4 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571815224


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“…[an] enlightening and eminently readable study…a valuable addition to scholarship on German popular culture as well as German cultural history.”  ·  German Studies Review

“This is a very good book…well, clearly, and forcefully written, in an attractive style with a touch of personal directness though with no sacrifice of academic rigour. The author’s enjoyment of popular culture in various forms is clear and infectious.”  ·  Ritchie Robertson, Oxford University

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Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual establishment and the common people in Germany. It charts the uneasy relationship of high and popular culture in Germany in the modern era. The impact of National Socialism and the strong influence from Great Britain and the United States are assessed in this cultural history of a changing nation and society. The period 1920-1980 is given special prominence, and the work of significant writers and artists such as Josef von Sternberg and Bertolt Brecht, Elfriede Jelinek and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Erwin Piscator and Heinrich Böll, is closely analysed. Their work has reflected changing tastes and, crucially, helped to make taste more pluralistic and democratic.

Anthony Waine teaches German and European Studies at Lancaster University, specialising in courses on the cultural history of the twentieth century. His previous publications include Martin Walser: The Development as Dramatist 1950 – 1970; Martin Walser (Autorenbuch); Brecht in Perspective and Culture and Society in the GDR (both co-edited with Graham Bartram). He has also taught at Hamburg University and Wadham College, Oxford, and was awarded the Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2000.

Subject: Literary StudiesHistory: 20th Century to Present
Area: Germany


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