In a cold crater : cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated by Kelly Barry.
1998
DD866 .S3513 1998
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Title
In a cold crater : cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated by Kelly Barry.
Uniform Title
Vor dem Vorhang. English
ISBN
9780520203662 (hardcover)
0520203666 (hardcover)
0520203666 (hardcover)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DD866 .S3513 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
943/.155
Summary
Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when the capital of the world's most recently defeated public enemy assumed great emotional and symbolic meaning. This is a story not of major intellectual and cultural achievements (for there were none in those years) but of enormous hopes and plans that failed. It is the story of the once famous volcano-dancing Berlin intelligentsia, torn apart by Nazism and exile, now reencountering one another. All of them were eager to rebuild a neo-Weimar republic of letters, arts, and thought. Some were highly qualified and serious. Many were classic opportunists. A few came close to being clowns. After three years of "carnival," recreated by Schivelbusch in all its sound and fury, they were driven from the stage by the Cold War.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-224) and index.
Series
Weimar and now ; 18.
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