“An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three miles along the east coast of Rügen, a German island in the Baltic Sea. Blocky and bleak, their unadorned design suggests a prison. But these buildings were meant for leisure: they form part of a Nazi-built seaside resort.” >full text (c) Atlas Obscura / SLATE, 2014
Archive for Germany
The art Hitler dismissed as ‘filth’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 'degenerate art', Berlin, exhibition, Germany, National Socialism, New York, review on 12 March 2014 by delclem
“Degenerate Art”: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937. This New York exhibition revisits not only Germany’s ‘Degenerate Art’ show that destroyed so many artistic careers, but the Nazi rhetoric that made the exhibition possible. >review
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
“Vienna – Berlin: The Art of Two Cities”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, Berlin, exhibition, Germany, Vienna on 27 February 2014 by delclem
“Whereas the affinities in literature and music between Vienna and Berlin have been the subject of in-depth study in recent years, there is still a lot of ground to be covered in the visual arts. This is a desideratum that the Berlinische Galerie and the Vienna Belvedere have sought to overcome in a large-scale exhibition organized by both museums.” >review & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2014
“You Know Who Else Collected Metadata?”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags GDR, Germany, intelligence services, metadata, secret police, spying, Stasi on 15 February 2014 by delclem
“The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during the Communist regime.” >text (c) truthdig 2014
>Other text on the Stasi (c) IRISH TIMES, 2014
“It is Time for a Guinneß…”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1930s, advertising, beer, Germany, Guinness, Ireland, John Guilroy, National Socialism on 31 January 2014 by delclem
“Newly discovered paintings by John Guilroy, the artist behind much of Guinness’s pre-war advertising, reveal that the Dublin brewery had considered promoting the drink in Nazi Germany.” (c) SUNDAY TIMES, 18.01.2014
Nazi Weapon: Mosquitoes?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biological warfare, Germany, inventions, mosquitoes, National Socialism, weapons, World War Two on 27 January 2014 by delclem
This is almost surreal: “Mosquitoes as weapons? It was nearly a real-life threat during World War II, new research suggests.” >full text & photo (c) HUFF POST, 2014
“A monument of self-pity and self-justification” for Hungary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arrow Cross, Budapest, collaboration, cultural memory, Fidesz, Germany, Hungary, István Deák, memorials, memory politics, National Socialism, occupation, Second World War, World War on 26 January 2014 by delclem
The renowned Hungarian American historian István Deák on the Monument of German Occupation, 1944-45, which is planned in Budapest by the right-wing nationalist FIDEZ government > text (c) Hungarian Spectrum, 2014
photo of monument draft (c) FACEBOOK, 2014
“A History Lesson, Airbrushed”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cinematography, collective guit, film, Germany, National Socialism, representation, review, Second World War, TV-series on 19 January 2014 by delclem
“Generation War, which was broadcast as a mini-series on German television last year, is perhaps more interesting as an artifact of the present than as a representation of the past. As tWW2 slips from living memory, as Germany asserts its dominant role in Europe with increasing confidence, and as long-suppressed information emerges from the archives of former Eastern bloc countries, the war’s cultural significance for Germans has shifted.”>review (c) NYT, 2014
>trailer (c) musicbox films
200th birthday of Georg Büchner
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Darmstadt, Georg Büchner, Germany, Hessen, Literature, revolution on 18 January 2014 by delclem
Georg Büchner: Revolutionary with Pen and Scalpel [Georg Büchner. Revolutionär mit Feder und Skalpell], an exhibition from October 13, 2013 to February 16, 2014 at the Darmstadium Conference Centre, Darmstadt. The catalogue of the same title is published by Hatje Cantz, 612 pages, €65 (US $89). >More about the author
(c) WSWS, 2014
What if… the Germans had won WWI?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Germany, history, Twentieth Century, World War I on 28 December 2013 by delclem
“With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual
conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.” >essay
(c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013; photo (c) Virginia Mayo/AP:
David Cameron visits the graves of WW1 soldiers in Zonnebeke, Belgium.
delirium clemens 