Handbuch Nachkriedskultur

This book covers the research on culture in postwar Germany (1945?1961), a topic which has become increasingly complex in recent years. Virulent topics such as war, rubble, homecoming, flight, expulsion, guilt, daily life, religion, etc., are explored systematically, using examples and focusing on fiction, nonfiction and film in the two German states. Historians and scholars in the field of literature and film have contributed to this compendium and have answered the relevant questions concerning aesthetic representation and the formation of contemporary history.