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A number of specialists in German studies have joined forces in this book to paint a comprehensive picture of Germany since unification. Starting from the 1989 revolution, the book reviews the fall of East Germany, including a chapter on how the event was experienced by observers and participants. Individual chapters analyze the new political structures, Germany's role as a European power, and the social, educational and economic problems generated by the western take-over of the former GDR. A separate section is devoted to culture and the arts, with studies of the language, the media, cinema, theatre, literature and feminism.
A number of specialists in German studies have joined forces in this book to paint a comprehensive picture of Germany since unification. Starting from the 1989 revolution, the book reviews the fall of East Germany, including a chapter on how the event was experienced by observers and participants. Individual chapters analyze the new political structures, Germany's role as a European power, and the social, educational and economic problems generated by the western take-over of the former GDR. A separate section is devoted to culture and the arts, with studies of the language, the media, cinema, theatre, literature and feminism.
Contents: Part 1 Setting the scene - the demise of the GDR: the revolution of 1989 - post mortem on the GDR, Derek Lewis; views of the Wende from observers and participants, Gerald Opie. Part 2 The new Germany - the political, social and economic challenges: the political shape of Germany today, Charles Jeffery; Germany as a European power, Mark Blacksell; the German economy - stability or decline?, Karl Koch; from euphoria to reality - the social problems of post-unification, Jurgen Thomaneck; education in the new Germany, Edward Neather. Part 3 The cultural and artistic challenge: the German media, John Sandford; the end of East German literature?, James Mellis; literature of the new Germany, Jochen Rohlfs; the German cinema, Helen Hughes; the German theatre, Michael Patterson; German feminism in a European context, Ingrid Sharp; from the language of revolt to the language of division, Derek Lewis.
DEREK LEWIS is Lecturer in German, University of Exeter. JOHN MCKENZIE is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in German, University of Exeter.
"Much of the detail, statistics and up-to-date material will appeal
to academics; it is, however, a useful standard text that could be
recommended to students on a range of German and European studies
courses requiring Landeskunde on the current situation in the new
Germany. The layout and extensive nature of the coverage mean that
this well-written book will be valuable for both lecturers and
students from a number of disciplines. The editors are to be
congratulated on the way in which they have successfully brought
together so many contributions from different authors and different
areas of expertise." (German Studies) "Aimed at both general
readers and students of German, this valuable work with
contributions from respected scholars in the field of German
studies provides useful background information on contemporary
Germany, its institutions and culture with the main focus on 'the
experiences of Germans in the new federal states'." (Political
Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, June 1997)
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