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Robert Norton, Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle (Cornell University Press, 2002).
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Austro-Prussian War see Seven Weeks War
B
Bakunin, M. 97
Baltic states 5
A
Basle 82
absolutism 7, 10, 12, 34, 37,
battle of the historians
39–40, 45–6, 48, 50, 59,
(Historikerstreit) 156
80, 100, 129, 143, 157
Bauer, B. 82
Addison, J. 38
Baumgarten, A.G. 42
Adenauer, K. 152
Bavaria 13, 15, 98, 104
Adorno, T. 130, 139–41, 144–5,
Bayreuth 100
156
Beethoven, L. 80, 96
aesthetics 42, 48, 66, 93, 150,
Belgium 2
see also ‘Art’
Benjamin, W. 129–30, 136
Africa 18
Benn, G. 117, 126, 136, 144, 147
Albert, Prince Consort 18
Bennett, A. 113
alexandrine 35
Berg, A. 117, 130
America see USA
Berlin 72, 73–5, 81, 105, 107,
Anabaptists 32
109–12, 116–17, 123,
Anna Amalia, duchess of
128–9, 132–3, 136, 149–50
Saxe-Weimar 44
Bertram, E. 124
anti-Semitism 94, 101, 130
Bible 28, 30, 101, 130
aphorism 47, 66, 102
‘Bildung’ 15–17, 21, 28, 100, 122,
Apollo 42
133, 140, 150–1, 154, 156
architecture 7, 113, 151, 158,
‘Bildungsbürger’ 15, 19, 96, 100,
Illustration 7
102, 107, 112, 114, 133–4
army 17, 21, 75, 125, 136, 139
Bismarck, O. 5, 13–14, 16–17,
Arnim, L.A. 75, 83
20, 22, 24, 96–8, 100,
art history 9, 42
104, 108, 110, 112, 154,
‘Art’ 11, 21, 42, 46, 61, 67, 69,
Illustration 2
73–5, 80, 93, 97–8, 100,
Black Forest 35
104–5, 107, 112, 114–16,
Blake, W. 34, 91
120, 122, 124, 129–30,
Böhme, J. 34
132, 140–2, 149
Böll, H. 151–3
Athenaeum 66
Bonn 82, 124
Auden, W.H. 139
Bonn Republic 23
Augsburg 27, 128 Peace of 32, 34
bourgeois tragedy 45
Augustine 30
bourgeoisie 8, 10, 14–17, 19–20,
Auschwitz 144–5, 150
22, 24, 26, 28, 34, 36–40,
Austria 2, 4–5, 9, 13, 19, 20, 23,
45–6, 48, 51, 54–5, 58, 64,
76, 96, 100
67, 73–5, 80–1, 93–4,
163
bourgeoisie ( cont. ) classics 9
96–8, 101, 104–5, 107–9,
clergy 5–11, 13, 67, 124
112–15, 122–3, 126, 128,
Cold War 18, 148, 154
131–3, 136, 140, 143, 149,
Cologne 27
Illustration 9
colonies 9, 18, 20, 54, 81, 112
Brahm, O. 110–11, 116
communism 17, 21, 83, 92, 126,
Brandenburg 5
128, 133, 144, 148, 150
Brant, S. 30
Communist Manifesto 17
Bremen 38, 41
Copernicus, N. 59
Brentano, C. 75, 83, 89
copyright 15, 78, 96
Britain, see England
Cotta, J.F. 63, 68
British Empire 18, 76, 128, 158
Courage (Courasche) 36, 138–9
Brockes, B.H. 39, 41
courts 7, 10–11, 15, 36, 38, 40, 63,
Brunswick, duke of 46
67, 73, 76
Büchner, G. 85–8, 93, 109, 111,
crash of 1873 17
116, 128
crash of 1929 22, 134
Büchner, L. 93–4
culture, see Kultur
Burns, R. 49
Customs Union (‘Zollverein’)
Busch, W. 94, Illustration 10
13–14, 85
Czechs 21
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D
California 139, 141
Calvinism 32
Darwin, C. 94, 96, 110, 113
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Campo Formio, treaty 68
Dawes Plan 123
capital, capitalism 7–8, 10, 19–21,
Defoe, D. 38, 40
37, 48, 79, 101, 110, 126,
deism 9, 45, 48
128, 136, 138, 140
Denmark 41, 61, 137
Carlsbad Decrees 12, 76
depression 17, 22
Catholicism 6, 9, 17–18, 23, 30,
Descartes, R. 30, 37
34, 52–3, 74, 76, 90–1,
‘Deutschland, Deutschland über
105, 108, 124, 132, 152
alles’ 13
Cavell, E. 126
Dickens, C. 88
Celan, P. 145–8, Illustration 18
Döblin, A. 132–3, 153
Charles V 32
Drama 11, 28, 33, 40, 45, 49–52,
chivalrous literature 28, 75
54–7, 60–1, 63, 70, 73, 76,
Christianity 6, 9, 60, 65, 70, 82,
87–8, 92, 97, 101, 104,
84, 91, 96, 100–1
110–12, 116–17, 123–4,
church 8–9, 18, 32–3, 36–7, 41,
128–9, 137–9, 149–51,
46, 54, 67, 152
153
‘civilization’ 19, 120, 122, 126
Dresden 39, 46, 61, 97, 136, 157
‘classical’ period 11, 15–16, 23–4,
Droste-Hülshoff, A. 90–1, 106
59–60, 89, 96, 100,
dualism 30
102, 104, 125, 133, 148,
Dürer, A. 29–30
Illustration 7
Dürrenmatt, F. 2
164
62–4, 68–9, 74, 80–1,
E
84–6, 105, 120, 122, 132
Eckhart (‘Meister Eckhart’) 28,
Franco-Prussian War 13, 96,
34
100
education 9, 36, 61, 63–4, 66,
Frankfurt 33, 35–6, 39, 48–9, 54,
96, 132
75, 125, 130, 144, 150, 156
Eichendorff, J. 74, 89
Frankfurt Parliament 13, 15, 98
Eichmann, A. 22
Frederick II, ‘ the Great’ 22, 46,
Einstein, A. 123
151
emigration 17, 32, 54, 136, 142–4,
free trade 14, 17, 18
158
freedom 11, 32, 36, 50, 59–61,
empires 18, 76–8, 120, 132,
68, 86, 94, 114, 120, 122,
158
140, 158
Engels, F. 17, 24, 81, 83
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br /> French language 38, 105
England, Britain 7–10, 18–19, 23,
French Revolution of 1789 63–5,
34, 38, 80–1, 107, 120, 128,
70–1, 74–5, 78, 86, 150
155–6, 158
French Revolution of 1830 80, 84
Enlightenment 9, 37–40, 45–6,
Freytag, G. 94–5
55, 58–9, 64, 66, 78, 101,
Friedrich II, see Frederick II, ‘the 130–1, 139–41, 156
Great’
Enzensberger, H.M. 148
Friedrich Wilhelm IV 13
Erfurt 44
Fromm, E. 130
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Eulenspiegel 28
Fronde 7
Europe 2, 15, 27, 29, 36–9, 49, 51,
66, 70, 74–6, 104, 113–15,
122–3, 132, 139–40, 147,
G
149
Galsworthy, J. 113
Expressionism 123, 136
Gauss, C.F. 47
‘Geistesgeschichte’ 124, 129
Gelnhausen 35
F
genius 47–8, 52, 61, 138
famine 14
George II 38
Faust 33, 45–6, 49, 52–4, 64–5,
George III 47
78–9, 85, 89, 141–2
George, S. 105–6, 124–5, 131, 136,
Faust-book, see: History of Dr
Illustration 13
John Faust
German Democratic Republic
feudalism 27–8, 37
2, 24–6, 143–4, 147–50,
Feuerbach, L. 81–3, 97
154–7
Fichte, J.G. 63, 65, 68, 72, 74–5
German Federal Republic (‘Bonn
Fielding, J. 40, 44, 47
Republic’) 2, 23–5, 143–4,
First World War 19, 116, 134, 142
147–50, 153–7
folk-songs 28, 48–9, 75, 83, 133
Germanic Federation 13, 84
Fontane, T. 107–11, 114
German language 2, 28, 32, 34,
France 7, 8, 19, 20, 23, 25, 35,
40, 49–50, 75, 111, 132,
37–8, 40, 45–6, 48–9,
154, 158
165
German Mercury (Der Teutsche
Hagedorn, F. 38
Merkur) 45, 63
Halle 36
‘Germanistics’ 17, 22
Hamburg 38–40, 46
Germany 1–4, 12–14, 16, 21, 23,
Hanover 38, 154
25–7, 32, 47–8, 62, 72,
Hapsburg family 32, 34
74–6, 78, 96–7, 100–1, 105,
Hardenberg, F. 66, 72–3, 131
113–15, 120, 123–5, 132,
Hauptmann, G. 110–13, 136
140, 142–4, 149, 154, 156
Haydn, J. 96, 100
and passim, Illustration 1
Hebbel, F. 92–3, 97
globalization 17, 19, 24, 26,
Hegel, G.W.F. 66, 70–1, 76, 78,
115–16, 120, 135, 137, 144,
80–2, 92–3, 97
156, 158
Heidegger, M. 124, 126, 132, 135,
Goering, R. 123
156, Illustration 17
Goethe Institutes 24
Heine, H. 83–5, 89, 92, 97, 110
Goethe Societies 102
Helen of Troy 33, 52, 65, 79
Goethe, J.W. 48–54, 57, 58, 61–5,
Herder, J.G. 48–9, 54, 57, 65, 75
67–8, 74–6, 78–9, 80, 83,
Hesse, H. 133–4, 140–1, 144
85–90, 96, 98, 102, 104–5,
hexameter 41, Illustration 9
111, 124, 137, 145, 153–4,
Heym, G. 117
158, Illustration 8
Heyse, P. 104
Goldsmith, O. 53
Historikerstreit see battle of the ature
Göttingen 38, 40, 47
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Gottsched, J.C. 39–41, 45, 49, 62
History 9, 38, 48, 61, 74–6, 85,
Götz von Berlichingen 49
92, 122, 124, 136, 158
Grass, G. 152–4, 157, Illustration
History of Dr John Faust 33
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Hitler, A. 2, 23–4, 135–6, 142,
Greece 69, 70, 72, 105,
150
Illustration 7
Hochhuth, R. 149
Grimm, J. 75
Hoffmann von Fallersleben 13
Grimm, W. 75
Hoffmann, E.T.A. 74
Grimmelshausen J. J. C. 35–6,
Hoffmann, H. 94
139, 153
Hölderlin, F. 65–6, 70–1, 81, 86,
Gropius, W. 132
106, 125–6
Grosz, G. 126, 128
Holland 7, 8
Grünbein, D. 157
‘Holocaust’ 22, 26, 145, 149, 156
Gründerzeit 92, 96
Holy Roman Empire 5–6, 12, 13,
‘Gruppe 47’ 144
21, 23, 32, 38, 50, 67, 72–5
Gryphius, A. 35
Holz, A. 109–10
Gundolf, F. 124
Homer 41
Gutenberg, J. 30
Horae (Die Horen) 62–4, 66–8
Horkheimer, M. 130, 139–41
H
Humboldt, A. 65, 76
Humboldt, W. 65, 72, 76
Habermas, J. 156
Hume, D. 58
Hafi z 78
Hungary 2, 155
166
Hus, J. 32
K
hymns 30, 66, 70
Kafka, F. 4
I
Kaiser, G. 123
Kant, I. 58–9, 61, 63–4, 68–70,
72, 122
Ibsen, H. 109–10
Karl August, duke of
idealism 9, 57, 58–9, 64–7,
Saxe-Weimar 45, 54, 61,
70, 71–6, 79, 81, 83,
63
85, 89, 92–3, 101, 104–5,
Kerr, A. 136
112, 132
Kerr, J. 136
identity 19, 28, 30, 32, 37, 42, 67,
Kleist, H. 72–3, 81, 87
70, 72–4, 91–2, 94, 116,
Klinger, F.M. 55
132, 143, 159
Klopstock, F.G. 41–2, 50–1
Iffl and, A.W. Illustration 6
Kohl, H. 156–7
Imperial Free Cities 6–7, 37, 39,
Kommerell, M. 125
48, 112
Königsberg 58, 63
India 75, 105, 133
‘Kultur’ 19, 48, 63, 73–4, 97, 100,
indulgences 30
112, 115, 120, 131, 133,
industrialization, industry 14,
135, 142
18, 27, 47, 79, 81, 83, 94,
‘Kulturkampf ’ 18
100, 105, 109–10, 116, 123,
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126, 132
infl ation 20, 122–3, 126
Institute for Social Research
L
(Institut für
Lasker-Schüler, E. 117–18, 145
Sozialforschung) 130,
Latin 7, 36, 41
139, 144
League of Nations 135
Ireland 14
Leaves for Art ( Blätter für die
Italy 2, 13, 27, 29, 40, 62
Kunst) 105
Leibniz, G.W. 37–40, 44, 48,
J
58, 82
Leipzig 39, 41, 45–6, 48, 61, 81
James, H. 106
Leisewitz, J.A. 55
Jean Paul see Richter, J.P.F.
Lenz, J.M.R. 49, 53–4, 61, 85–7,
Jena 61, 63, 65–6, 68, 72–5
111–12
Jena, battle 72, 76
Lessing, G.E. 45–6, 49, 51,
Jesus Christ 71, 82
59–60, 96
Jews 17, 22, 84–5, 91,
94, 96, 105,
liberalism 14, 21, 93, 131, 136
117, 130, 131–2, 136, 145,
Lichtenberg, G.C. 8, 47
149–50, 156
Liechtenstein 2
Johnson, U. 155, 158
literacy 6, 28, 33, 73, 81, 88, 92
Joyce, J. 132, 154
Locke, J. 37
Jünger, E. 125–6, 132, 136, 156
London 27, 107, 136
Junkers 12, 17–18
Louis XIV 7, 40
167
Lübeck 112–13
music 18–19, 22, 68, 74, 96–101,
Ludwig II 98–100, Illustration 11
105, 130–1, 133–4, 141
Luther, M. 30–3, 49, 137
mysticism 28, 30, 34, 36, 105,
Lutheranism 5, 11, 32–6, 54, 60,
133
65, 70, 92, 97, 124
Luxembourg 2
N
M
Namibia 2
Napoleon 12, 67, 72, 78, 84
Mainz 30
National Socialism 21–23, 125,
Mallarmé, S. 105
130, 131–4, 140–4, 151–3,
Mandeville, B. 37
155, 157
Mann, H. 112, 116, 120, 136,
nationalism 21, 72, 75, 78, 100,
Illustration 15
106, 116, 135, 156
Mann, T. 112–16, 120–2,
natural sciences 9, 38, 47, 65, 93,
130–2, 141–2, 144, 154,
96, 101, 131
Illustration 15
navy 18
Mannheim, 60–1
Neuschwanstein Illustration 11
Marcuse, H. 130
new sobriety (Neue Sachlichkeit)
Marlowe, C. 33
124
Marx, K., Marxism 17, 24, 81–3,
Newton, I. 34, 37
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85, 93, 97, 128–30, 136,
Nibelungs, Lay of the
138–9, 150
(Nibelungenlied) 75, 97
Mastersingers 28, 98
Nietzsche, F. 81–3, 100–4, 106,
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materialism 15, 24, 37, 44, 55,
113, 115, 117, 125–6, 131,
57, 81, 89, 101, 106, 110,
133, 136, 141, 151
129, 131
Nobel Prize for Literature 104,
Mechthild von Magdeburg 28
112, 130, 144, 153
Middle Ages 4, 6, 30, 48–9, 66,
Novalis see Hardenberg
75, 100
novel 1, 10–11, 33, 35, 40, 44–5,
Milton, J. 41
47, 50–2, 64, 66–7, 70,
Mitscherlich, A. and M. 142–4
74, 76, 94, 107–9, 112–14,
modern languages 9, 65
116, 131–4, 140–2, 150–4,
modernity 1, 9, 19–21, 65, 71, 79,
157–8
84, 88, 97, 100–1, 110, 126,
novella (‘Novelle’) 104–5, 107
128, 132–3, 140, 148
Nuremberg 27, 98
monad 37, 44, 48, 54
monetarization 28, 30
O
moral weeklies 38
Morgenstern, C. 118–19
Oberlin, J.F. 86
Mörike, E. 88–91, 106
ode 35, 41, 49, 51, 70
Moroccan Crisis 117
offi cials 6, 8–12, 14–15, 17, 19–20,