Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945 - Altruism and Moral Ambiguity

Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period.

List of contents

Introduction: Finding the "Good German"
Re-Presenting the Good Citizen: Philosophical Reflections - Maeve Cooke
"Görings glorreichste Günstlinge": The Portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gustaf Gründgens as Good Germans in the West German Media since 1945 - Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky
From Hitler's Champion to German of the Century: On the Representation and Re-invention of Max Schmeling - Jon Hughes
Wilhelm Krützfeld and Other "Good" Constables in Police Station 16 in Hackescher Markt - Eoin Bourke
The "Good German" between Silence and Artistic Deconstruction of an Inhumane World: Johannes Bobrowski's "Mäusefest" and "Der Tänzer Malige" - Sabine Egger
Saints and Sinners: The Good German and Her Others in Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame - Matthias Uecker
Being Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film - Christiane Schönfeld
"The Banality of Good"? Good Nazis in Contemporary German Film - Alexandra Ludewig
Memories of Good and Evil in Sophie Scholl -- Die letzten Tage - Coman Hamilton
Deconstructing the "Good German" in French Best-Sellers Published in the Aftermath of the Second World War - Manuel Braganca
Macbeth, Not Henry V: Shakespearean Allegory in the Construction of Vercors's "Good German" - Kevin De Ornellas
A Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother - Joachim Fischer
Shades of Gray: The Beginnings of the Postwar Moral Compromise in Joseph Kanon's The Good German - Pól O Dochartaigh
Filmography
Index

About the author

Pól O Dochartaigh, Christiane Schönfeld

Product details

• Authors: Pól O Dochartaigh
• Assisted by: Pól O Dochartaigh (Editor), Pol O. Dochartaigh (Editor), Pól O. Dochartaigh (Editor), Pol O'dochartaigh (Editor), Christiane Schonfeld (Editor), Christiane Schönfeld (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9781571134981
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-498-1
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Deutsch, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, Literature - Classics / Criticism