"With the concept of a 'master narrative', the cultural turn prodded contemporary historians to become more self-reflexive about their contribution to larger interpretations. Taking a critical look at the dominant explanations of the German past, this essay argues that the national narrative failed with the atrocities of World War Two, while the communist story was discredited by the overthrow of the SED-regime. But West German Gesellschaftsgeschichte also appeared increasingly outdated, since it was reluctant to admit new impulses like everyday history. However, the rising pretenders to grand narrative status were only partially successful, since the Holocaust fixation could not explain post-war recivilization, gender history provided only...
»Zeitgeschichte als transatlantisches Projekt: Autobiographische Überlegungen zur deutschen Frage«. ...
The present contribution is mainly aimed at retracing some pivotal elements of the debate on “German...
Contemporary History is always part of a historical culture, part of a society’s mindset. This artic...
"With the concept of a 'master narrative', the cultural turn prodded contemporary historians to beco...
"Since most post-war histories are still written either as West or as East German narratives, this a...
"Another challenge for contemporary historians consists of widening the German perspective to the Eu...
"The comparative reluctance of German historians to engage the postmodern challenge suggested the ne...
Recent Transformations in the Fields of Research on Global History and of World History Writing: A S...
"This autobiographical retrospective discusses the author's scholarship as an example of the topical...
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Konsequenzen die Ereignisse von 1989 und die deutsch-deutsche Vereini...
"Though the second German state existed only four decades, it was well on its way to developing an o...
'Im folgenden Beitrag geht es darum, historische Sinnbildungsprozesse durch ein kontrastierendes Ver...
The ‘Third Reich’ has been one of the most traumatic experiences of the 20th century. It comes there...
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Konsequenzen die Ereignisse von 1989 und die deutsch-deutsche Vereini...
Die Präsenz und Erfolge rechtspopulistischer Parteien ist momentan in vielen europäischen Ländern ei...
»Zeitgeschichte als transatlantisches Projekt: Autobiographische Überlegungen zur deutschen Frage«. ...
The present contribution is mainly aimed at retracing some pivotal elements of the debate on “German...
Contemporary History is always part of a historical culture, part of a society’s mindset. This artic...
"With the concept of a 'master narrative', the cultural turn prodded contemporary historians to beco...
"Since most post-war histories are still written either as West or as East German narratives, this a...
"Another challenge for contemporary historians consists of widening the German perspective to the Eu...
"The comparative reluctance of German historians to engage the postmodern challenge suggested the ne...
Recent Transformations in the Fields of Research on Global History and of World History Writing: A S...
"This autobiographical retrospective discusses the author's scholarship as an example of the topical...
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Konsequenzen die Ereignisse von 1989 und die deutsch-deutsche Vereini...
"Though the second German state existed only four decades, it was well on its way to developing an o...
'Im folgenden Beitrag geht es darum, historische Sinnbildungsprozesse durch ein kontrastierendes Ver...
The ‘Third Reich’ has been one of the most traumatic experiences of the 20th century. It comes there...
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Konsequenzen die Ereignisse von 1989 und die deutsch-deutsche Vereini...
Die Präsenz und Erfolge rechtspopulistischer Parteien ist momentan in vielen europäischen Ländern ei...
»Zeitgeschichte als transatlantisches Projekt: Autobiographische Überlegungen zur deutschen Frage«. ...
The present contribution is mainly aimed at retracing some pivotal elements of the debate on “German...
Contemporary History is always part of a historical culture, part of a society’s mindset. This artic...