The Heavy Metal Music of the 19th century: today was the 200th birthday of Germany’s most controversial composer: RICHARD WAGNER (1813-83).
>text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Archive for Germany
Germany obsession with inflation: a myth?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags austerity, cultural history, euro, Europe, Germany, inflation, monetary system on 13 May 2013 by delclem
“Separating historical fact from fiction is a thankless task in Germany but one man is trying to do just that”: Derek Scally. >opinion piece (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Impact of the Frankfurt School
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Frankfurt School, Germany, Max Horkheimer, philosophy, Theodor W. Adorno on 17 April 2013 by delclem
Dated and overrated? “In the 1960s, the Frankfurt School’s argument – that most of culture helps to keep its audience compliant with capitalism – had an explosive impact. Arguably, it remains influential today.” >text/ audio (c) BBC RADIO 4, 2013
“Berlin Exhibition on Judaism Hits a Nerve”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, exhibition, Germany, Jewish Museum, Judaism, review on 7 April 2013 by delclem
“Bill Glucroft is not an expert on the Torah, Israeli politics or the Holocaust. But on Thursday afternoon he fielded questions on each of those subjects from visitors to the Jewish Museum here in the German capital as part of a new exhibition.
To critics of the show, called “The Whole Truth” and intended to demystify Jewish life for a curious but largely uninformed German public, it was neither the questions nor the answers that were controversial, but where Mr. Glucroft sat: in a glass box, like just another exhibit.”>full text & photo (c) NYT, 2013
“Lowbrow in High Places”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bavaria, film, gender, Germany, Lederhosen, pornography, sexuality, Tyrol on 1 April 2013 by delclem
“Four decades ago, the southern German state of Bavaria became the birthplace of a film genre like no other: the Lederhosen Porn. The alpine meadows were rugged, the men wore leather trousers, the porn was soft — and Germany was hooked.” Today, these films tell us much about zeitgeist, sexuality and gender in the 1970s >full text (c) DER SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013
‘The Bell Jar’ echoes 50 years on
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bell Jar, Feminism, Germany, Literature, Sylvia Plath, USA on 29 March 2013 by delclem
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) seems to be the Ingeborg Bachmann of North America. Her “relationship with her most famous work was not easy, but it retains its power after five decades.” In terms of today, she would be a writer with an Austrian/German “migration background.” >full article (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Another article: Who is Sylvia Plath? “Her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much-mythologised poet.” (c) FT 2013
Incisive Anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, cultural memory, Germany, Hitler, memory politics, National Socialism on 13 March 2013 by delclem
Austria commemorates again its – less forced than desired – “Anschluss” to Nazi Germany. Continue reading
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