… By looking at the institutional history of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship
to the Federal Press Office, Jan Uelzmann traces the Adenauer administration's project of …

This article documents a curriculum reform of the second-year German program at the
Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. This curricular reform had …

The impression that the new West German capital Bonn was, like Cold War Berlin, also a “divided
city,” albeit on quite different terms, was not uncommon during the 1950s. A quaint …

In September 1955, ten years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the West Ger man state-owned
newsreel company Neue Deutsche Wochenschau (NDW) accompanied Federal …

In this article I read Arno Schmidt's 1956 novel Das steinerne Herz: Historischer Roman aus
dem Jahre 1954 nach Christi as a social commentary on the dynamics of gender relations …

This essay examines two documentaries on Bonn produced by the Deutsche Wochenschau
that the Federal government commissioned during the Adenauer period (1949–63), to make …

A central scene of Erich Kästner’s Berlin novel Fabian (1931) is set in a cabaret named»
Cabaret of the Anonymous.«This is a space in which all social inhibitions are dropped and the …

abstract: Examining initiatives in the Bundestag and the media to move the FRG's capital
from Bonn to West Berlin in regard to their implications on the West German nation-building …

… Jan Uelzmann Jan Uelzmann is an associate professor of German studies at the Ivan Allen
… Jan Uelzmann is an associate professor of German studies at the Ivan Allen College of …

My dissertation reconstructs sociopolitical new-beginning discourses pertaining to Bonn, the
provisional West German capital, during the Federal Republic’s founding years. Combining …