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1	Utopie und utopische Motive in Thorsten Beckers Schönes Deutschland Baldus, Niko January 2010 (has links) Thorsten Becker’s novel Schönes Deutschland appeared in 1996, six years after German reunification. Numerous people in both eastern and western Germany had hopes for a golden future in which the two Germanies would become one, but the realities of the “Wende” disappointed many citizens. Today enormous differences between eastern and western living standards, commerce and industry, and political and social mentalities still exist. Thorsten Becker’s novel imagines what would have happened had a new socialist revolution taken place reversing the “Wende” and returning Germany to a two-state configuration. This fictional new utopian socialist state, built upon market-orientated structures and isolating the populace from the outside world by means of full control of the media, addresses the disappointments associated with the “Wende” by letting the people think that they live in a paradise on earth where consumer-orientated happiness is more important than freedom, and individual happiness runs counter to the doctrine of the utopian state. The novel’s West German state, though not described in full detail, is similarly totalitarian in its control of public memory and history. With Schönes Deutschland Thorsten Becker partially revives the utopian genre in German literature, a category which had become largely ignored after the collapse first of national socialism and more recently of eastern European socialism. This can be traced to the fact that utopian fiction always contains totalitarian aspects, and the Germans’ experience with totalitarianism thus made them wary of the genre. By relying on motifs found in many utopian novels Schönes Deutschland explores the potential and the problems of imagining utopias in a media-based society. Therefore the main aspect of the thesis is not utopian motifs in a “Wende-Roman” but moreover the power and magic of the utopian imagination in modern times. This thesis reviews the history of German utopian literature before turning to a discussion of the new German Democratic Republic described by the novel’s nameless protagonist. The ability of this state to impinge on the freedom of the main character, and the roles which media, theatre and romantic love play in realizing or countering the state’s utopia visions for society are analyzed. The thesis concludes that utopian literature and thinking is not necessarily out of fashion. The novel contains both the positive and the negative sides of utopian thinking: progress, faith in the future, and personal individual happiness on the one hand, and totalitarian control, lack of political maturity, and a state-constructed propaganda of happiness on the other. Becker’s Schönes Deutschland is therefore worth examining because it combines these competing ideas in a way that provides new impulses for German utopian literature. Utopie Thorsten Becker Schönes Deutschland German
2	Utopie und utopische Motive in Thorsten Beckers Schönes Deutschland Baldus, Niko January 2010 (has links) Thorsten Becker’s novel Schönes Deutschland appeared in 1996, six years after German reunification. Numerous people in both eastern and western Germany had hopes for a golden future in which the two Germanies would become one, but the realities of the “Wende” disappointed many citizens. Today enormous differences between eastern and western living standards, commerce and industry, and political and social mentalities still exist. Thorsten Becker’s novel imagines what would have happened had a new socialist revolution taken place reversing the “Wende” and returning Germany to a two-state configuration. This fictional new utopian socialist state, built upon market-orientated structures and isolating the populace from the outside world by means of full control of the media, addresses the disappointments associated with the “Wende” by letting the people think that they live in a paradise on earth where consumer-orientated happiness is more important than freedom, and individual happiness runs counter to the doctrine of the utopian state. The novel’s West German state, though not described in full detail, is similarly totalitarian in its control of public memory and history. With Schönes Deutschland Thorsten Becker partially revives the utopian genre in German literature, a category which had become largely ignored after the collapse first of national socialism and more recently of eastern European socialism. This can be traced to the fact that utopian fiction always contains totalitarian aspects, and the Germans’ experience with totalitarianism thus made them wary of the genre. By relying on motifs found in many utopian novels Schönes Deutschland explores the potential and the problems of imagining utopias in a media-based society. Therefore the main aspect of the thesis is not utopian motifs in a “Wende-Roman” but moreover the power and magic of the utopian imagination in modern times. This thesis reviews the history of German utopian literature before turning to a discussion of the new German Democratic Republic described by the novel’s nameless protagonist. The ability of this state to impinge on the freedom of the main character, and the roles which media, theatre and romantic love play in realizing or countering the state’s utopia visions for society are analyzed. The thesis concludes that utopian literature and thinking is not necessarily out of fashion. The novel contains both the positive and the negative sides of utopian thinking: progress, faith in the future, and personal individual happiness on the one hand, and totalitarian control, lack of political maturity, and a state-constructed propaganda of happiness on the other. Becker’s Schönes Deutschland is therefore worth examining because it combines these competing ideas in a way that provides new impulses for German utopian literature. Utopie Thorsten Becker Schönes Deutschland German
3	Die "Fiedler-Debatte" oder Kleiner Versuch, die "Chiffre 1968" von links ein wenig auf-zuschreiben Walther, Danny 19 November 2010 (has links) (PDF) Ausgehend von der sog. "Fiedler-Debatte" des Jahres 1968, eine jener Auseinandersetzungen über Formen und Inhalte, Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten von Literatur, Kunst und deren Kritik, wie sie im Umkreis des Annus mirabilis so häufig wie heftig geführt worden sind, unternimmt diese Arbeit auf rund 340 Seiten den Versuch, mit (nicht nur) diskursanalytischen Methoden das in der "Chiffre 1968" besonders virulent gewordene Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kunst, Literatur und Ästhetik auf der einen und den vielfältigen Politisierungstendenzen auf anderen Seite mikrologisch auf-zuschreiben und mit Blick auf eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Bezugspunkte und -ebenen zu erklären (z.B. bezüglich genereller Kunst- und Ästhetikvorstellungen innerhalb der (Neuen) Linken, hinsichtlich der Aufarbeitung der deutschen NS-Vergangenheit, der Auseinandersetzung mit Antiamerikanismus usw.) Dabei rücken nicht nur die vielfältigen, nicht selten geradezu antagonistisch auftretenden "deutschen" Revolte-Ansätze "um '68", sondern auch Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu zeitgleichen Tendenzen und Debatten in den USA in den Fokus. Die umfangreiche Analyse der ebenso vielen wie vielschichtigen Ebenen der "Chiffre 1968" zeigt, dass von einem "1968"oder "den 68ern" nirgends Rede sein kann. 68 1968 68er Anarchie Becker Brinkmann Christ und Welt Counter-Culture Diskursanalyse Ende der Kunst Ende der Literatur Enzensberger das Erhabene Erhabenes Foucault Lacan Leslie Fiedler Gegenkultur Kunst Kursbuch Literatur Massenkultur Moderne Myth Criticism NS-Zeit Nationalsozialismus Politisierung Pop Popkultur Populärkultur Postmoderne Revolte Revolution Schönes das Schöne Subkultur Tod der Kunst Tod der Literatur Martin Walser Ästhetik 1968 anarchism revolution revolte death of literature death of art pop culture myth criticism aesthetics modernism postmodernism ddc:100
4	Die "Fiedler-Debatte" oder Kleiner Versuch, die "Chiffre 1968" von links ein wenig auf-zuschreiben Walther, Danny 24 September 2007 (has links) Ausgehend von der sog. "Fiedler-Debatte" des Jahres 1968, eine jener Auseinandersetzungen über Formen und Inhalte, Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten von Literatur, Kunst und deren Kritik, wie sie im Umkreis des Annus mirabilis so häufig wie heftig geführt worden sind, unternimmt diese Arbeit auf rund 340 Seiten den Versuch, mit (nicht nur) diskursanalytischen Methoden das in der "Chiffre 1968" besonders virulent gewordene Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kunst, Literatur und Ästhetik auf der einen und den vielfältigen Politisierungstendenzen auf anderen Seite mikrologisch auf-zuschreiben und mit Blick auf eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Bezugspunkte und -ebenen zu erklären (z.B. bezüglich genereller Kunst- und Ästhetikvorstellungen innerhalb der (Neuen) Linken, hinsichtlich der Aufarbeitung der deutschen NS-Vergangenheit, der Auseinandersetzung mit Antiamerikanismus usw.) Dabei rücken nicht nur die vielfältigen, nicht selten geradezu antagonistisch auftretenden "deutschen" Revolte-Ansätze "um ''68", sondern auch Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu zeitgleichen Tendenzen und Debatten in den USA in den Fokus. Die umfangreiche Analyse der ebenso vielen wie vielschichtigen Ebenen der "Chiffre 1968" zeigt, dass von einem "1968"oder "den 68ern" nirgends Rede sein kann. info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/100 ddc:100

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