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Culture- FRG
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- 1How had Germans traditionally seen their country? After ww2, what did many Germans want to do in relation to this?The leader of European culture.
Find a way to regain that position. - 2What was it easy to do in regards to culture?Easy to remove Nazi controls and re-introduce degenerate culture that the Nazis had banned.
Easy to re-establish a free press. - 3What did the re-establishment of a free press in Germany run alongside? What was it urged to discuss?Allied influenced newspapers.
Urged to discuss 'democratic themes.' - 4What was it harder to do? Why?retain culture that the Nazis had approved of. Many people found it easier to adopt the cultural offerings that the allies= flooded their zones with.
- 5Give an example of the culture that the Nazis had agreed with.Music of Wagner.
- 6Give an example of the American culture introduced in G.Hollywood movies.
- 7Give an example of British culture introduced in G.Shakespeare.
- 8Not all aspects of culture divided Generations. In what decade did some social movements draw in people from all ages?1950's
- 9Give some examples of social movements that drew people in from all ages.Anti-nuclear movement.
Various ecological/alternative lifestyle movements. - 10What did some have a shared rejection of?Consumerism.
- 11What did they share a desire for?A more peaceful and more equal society.
Some wanted this to create a better society.
Others wanted this to save society from destruction. - 12Give an example of the cultural divide that grew up in the 1960s.Development of the cinema in Germany.
- 13Until the 1960's, what was one of the most popular film genres?'Homeland' film.
- 14What were these films about?Films about Germany.
- 15What locations were these films set in?Beautiful rural locations.
- 16What type of plots did these films have?Romantic escapist plots.
- 17What were these films a complete contrast to?Bombed cities and economic and political problems of everyday life.
- 18What have some historians suggested regarding their character?Their strongly regionalistic character helped the FRG develop a regional culture in contrast with the strongly nationalistic Nazi culture.
- 19In what decade did young film-makers develop new styles and new themes?1960's.
- 20What was set up in what year to focus on the Nazi past and problems of the FRG?The New German Cinema- 1962
- 21Give an example of a film produced by this organisation. What was it about/when was it produced?'Yesterday Girl.'
1966
Problems of an East G. female migrant worker in the FRG. - 22What was the name of the film that examined the G. persecution of Jews? When was it produced?1966
Young Torless. - 23From when onwards did the 'New German Cinema' have state funding from who?Board of Young German Film.
State funding.
1965 - 24From what decade were there increasing generational tensions?1960's.
- 25What did many of the older generation want? (term)1945 as 'year zero'
- 26What did many of the younger generation want?Confront the past.
- 27How did these tensions show themselves in culture?Older people wanted a comfortable consumerist lifestyle- after shortages and upheaval.
Many younger people wanted a less consumerist lifestyle that faced the present and immediate past.
Rather than embracing the distant past and American culture. - 28Give an example of a couple who did press for acknowledgement of the immediate past.Psychoanalysts
Mitscherlichs - 29What did they do during the Nazi Germany?Left Germany but returned after the war.
- 30What book did they publish?'Inability to Mourn.' 1967
- 31What did they suggest in their book?Most G.s that had lived through the Nazi era= behaved like Nazism had been some infectious disease . Something they had caught, recovered from and were not responsible for. Mitscherlichs= suggested that G. - had to embrace its past.
- 32What was the reception of this book like?Widespread and highly influential book.
Some lander reformed history teaching in uni/schools to include Nazi Germany.
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- Flashcards on Culture- FRG, created by Charlotte Ferbrache on 12/05/2017.
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