The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family's bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks' decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral …
"W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated authors of the late twenti…
"W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated authors of the late twenti…
Recycling Brecht: Materialwert, Nachleben, Überleben
by Krämer, Caroline, Wölfl, Helena
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Ende der 1920er Jahre setzt Brecht den Bewahrern des kulturellen Erbes die These vom „Materialwert“ der Kunst entgegen. Er verabschiedet die Vorstellung einer überzeitlichen Dauer der Werke und rät, deren einzelne Teile bedenkenlos „herauszuhacken“ für ihre Wiederverwendung in d…