The tag 'Goethe' is associated with 2 posts.

FTR #169 Meet the New Fuhrer, Same as the Old Fuhrer: Update on Germany

Posted by FTR ⋅ September 12, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

“New image” for Ger­many. In 1999, cap­i­tal moved from Bonn to Berlin, Goethe’s 250th birth­day cel­e­brated as cul­tural renewal, “center-left” government’s third mil­i­tary incur­sion into the Balkans in 20th century.

FTR #135 Update on Germany

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 19, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

(One 30-minute seg­ment)
This pro­gram updates and/or presents a num­ber of sto­ries con­cern­ing Ger­man power pol­i­tics and Ger­man fas­cism. Begin­ning with analy­sis of Ger­man lit­er­ary giant Goethe’s spy­ing on the pol­i­tics of his uni­ver­sity stu­dents, the pro­gram con­tin­ues with dis­cus­sion of a nation­al­is­tic speech by a recip­i­ent of the Book Trade’s Peace Prize that indi­cated German [...]

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