Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945

Pól O Dochartaigh, Christiane Schönfeld

Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and the Nazi period.

Introduction: Finding the "Good German"Re-Presenting the Good Citizen: Philosophical Reflections - Maeve Cooke"Görings glorreichste Günstlinge": The Portrayal of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Gustaf Gründgens as Good Germans in the West German Media since 1945 - Karina von Lindeiner-StraskyFrom Hitler's Champion to German of the Century: On the Representation and Re-invention of Max Schmeling - Jon HughesWilhelm Krützfeld and Other "Good" Constables in Police Station 16 in Hackescher Markt - Eoin BourkeThe "Good German" between Silence and Artistic Deconstruction of an Inhumane World: Johannes Bobrowski's "Mäusefest" and "Der Tänzer Malige" - Sabine EggerSaints and Sinners: The Good German and Her Others in Heinrich Böll's Gruppenbild mit Dame - Matthias UeckerBeing Human: Good Germans in Postwar German Film - Christiane Schönfeld"The Banality of Good"? Good Nazis in Contemporary German Film - Alexandra LudewigMemories of Good and Evil in Sophie Scholl -- Die letzten Tage - Coman HamiltonDeconstructing the "Good German" in French Best-Sellers Published in the Aftermath of the Second World War - Manuel BragancaMacbeth, Not Henry V: Shakespearean Allegory in the Construction of Vercors's "Good German" - Kevin De OrnellasA Good Irish German: In Praise of Hugo Hamilton's Mother - Joachim FischerShades of Gray: The Beginnings of the Postwar Moral Compromise in Joseph Kanon's The Good German - Pól O DochartaighFilmographyIndex