2004

Die vergessene Generation

Einführung zur erweiterten und aktualisierten Auflage Millionen Kriegskinder unter uns Was Kinder gebraucht hätten »Eine verschwiegene, unentdeckte Welt« Zwei Frauen ziehen Bilanz Das fröhliche Kind Ein ganzes Volk in Bewegung Kriegswaise: Die Suche nach der Erinnerung Nazi-Erziehung: Hitlers willige Mütter »Aber recht, recht lieb wollen wir sein …« Das Trauma, der Krief und die Hirnforschung …

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Rifles

Preface Departures: May 1809 Talavera: July-August 1809 Guadiana: August-December 1809 Barba del Puerco: January-July 1810 The Coa: July 1810 Wounded: July-August 1810 Buasco: September 1810 The Corporal’s Stripes: September 1810-February 1811 Pombal: March-April 1811 Sabugal: April 1811 Fuentes d’Onoro: May-June 1811 The Gentleman Volunteer: June-September 1811 Deserters: October-December 1811 The Storm of Ciudad Rodrigo: January …

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Wagner’s Meistersinger

Introduction. Die Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation   Nicholas Vazsonyi Performing (in) Die Meistersinger “Climbing Mount Everest”: On Conducting Die Meistersinger   Peter Schneider “We Must Finally Stop Apologizing for Die Meistersinger!”: A Conversation with Harry Kupfer Richard Wagner’s Cobbler Poet   Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau The Dangers of Satisfaction: On Songs, Rehearsals, and Repetition in Die Meistersinger   Lydia Goehr History …

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Opera and Modern Culture

Prologue: Thinking through Opera with Wagner and Strauss Opera: Two or Three Things I Know About Her Contesting Wagner: The Lohengrin Prelude and Anti-Anti-Semitism The Waters of Prometheus: Nationalism and Sexuality in Wagner’s Ring Enchantment and Modernity: Wagner the Symptom Modernity’s Cutting Edge: The Salome Complex Video as Jugendstil: Salome, Visuality, and Performance Fin-de-siècle fantasies: …

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If Britain Had Fallen

New introduction   Norman Longmate Foreword Plans Preparations Anticipation Bombardment Assault Break-out Defeat Wanted: A Quisling The Merseyside spies Whatever happened to Nelso? To laugh at the Führer is forbidden How long is a Crayfish? Requisitioned Deported See Germany and die Resistance Collaboration Which way to the Black Market? The New Order The end of the …

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Wagner and the Romantic Hero

Introduction Modes of heroism in the early nineteenth century An anti-romantic age The romantic hero The epic hero The messianic hero Wagner and the early nineteenth-century theatre Theatre and freedom Limitations of the theatre German romantic opera and Die Feen Grand opera and Rienzi Early music-drama: the isolated hero The Flying Dutchman: vampire and wanderer …

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Death-Devoted Heart

Wagner and Religion The Story of Tristan Wagner’s Treatment of the Story The Music of Tristan The Philosophy of Love Tragedy and Sacrifice Love, Death, and Redemption From Romance to Ritual Table of Motives