Voices in Ruins

West German Radio across the 1945 Divide
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-28449-8
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badenoch, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Contexts Echoes of Days: Finding Everyday Between Exception and Routine Familiar Voices: Representations of Personalities and Pasts Time Consuming: Addressing a Nation of Women Re-placing a Nation: Between Home Service and Heimat Conclusion: Voices in Ruins? Radio and Normalization in Post-war Germany

Über Autor(innen)

ALEXANDER BADENOCH received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Southampton in the UK and has recently completed a post-doc on infrastructures and European identity at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He currently lives in the Netherlands.