Hitler Timeline: 20th Century Rulers and Governments

1900: Hitler’s father enrolls him in a technical college in the town on Linz, but he received poor grades and disappointed his father who wanted him to become a civil servant.

1908: Hitler moves to Vienna to study at the Academy there but does not get accepted and ends up living in a homeless shelter.

1914: During WWI Hitler enlist in the German Army and earns the ranking of corporal.

1921: Hitler earns the role of leader to the Nationalist Socialist Party (A.K.A Nazis).

1925: “Mein Kampf”, Hitler’s book, is published.

1930: The great depression hits and affects Germany. German people lost hope in their government and turned to Hitler and his party. They are elected into the national offices and become the second largest party in Germany.

1933:  -Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany   -The first concentration camp opens outside of Berlin         - Nazis are declared the only party in Germany.

1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany.

1935: Nuremberg Race Law takes place, stripping Jews of their race. The Holocaust begins.

1936: The Olympics are held in Germany, the famous Jesse Owens embarrasses Hitler.

1939: Germany has invaded many places by this time, they invades Poland and WWII begins.

1940: Many countries are taken over (Norway, Denmark, France, Holland).

1941: Gas chambers are introduced in Auschwitz known as ‘The Final Solution’.

1943: The Nazis are defeated and the war begins to turn.

1944: “D-Day”, Paris is liberated.

1945: Hitler commits suicide on April 30^th. The Nazi party also comes to an end.


Source: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/20thcentury.htm

20th Century Writters and Poets

Writers and Poets of 20^th Century Germany

By: Matt Dehn, Miranda Scherer, Lacey Harp, Robert Niehoff, 

Tom Monson, Angela Balcome, Tim Cox and Starsha Vang

Pre war(1900-1914)

Expressionism

Built up emotions that lead to war

Reaction of Conditions

New Objectivism

A better lifestyle?

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/230881/German-literature

War Era 1915-1945

Much written about this era!

Expressionism Era Effected

NAZI CONTROL

Book Burning Hyperlink

POST WAR(1945-1959)

Much writing about holocaust survival

Aftermath of War

Depressing

Hans Fallada

Born in Greifswald in 1893

Pseudonyms come from Grimm Fairy Tales

Died in 1947 at 54 years of age

Works include

Little Man- What Now?

Alone in Berlin

Little Man- What Now?

Published in 1932

Made into a Movie- released in US in 1934

Alone in Berlin

Published in 1947

Based on true story

Became bestseller in US/UK when translated into English

Thomas Kling

Poet

Wrote Manhatten Mouthspace about 9/11 disaster

Died in 2005

Anna Seghers/ Netty Reiling

Born as Netty Reiling in Mainz

Studied Philology (study of language), History and Sinology (study of classical language and literature) at Heidelber in Cologne.

Published Die Gefährten in 1932 warning about fascism. Leading to her arrest and later working for an anti-fascist magazine.

In 1950 she was a co-founder of the GDR.

Died in 1983

Günter Eich

Born February 1, 1907 in Lebus, Brandenburg

Served in German Army during WWII

Poet, Playwrite, Author

Died 1972

Works of Günter Eich

Rebellion in der Goldstadt (1940)

Züge im Nebel (1947)

Abgelegene Gehöfte (1948)

Träume. Vier Spiele (1953)

Das Jahr Lazertis (1954)

Botschaften des Regens (1955) 

Stimmen (1958)

Zu den Akten (1964)

Anlässe und Steingärten (1966)

Maulwürfe (1968)

Ein Tibeter in Meinem

Büro (1970)

Nach Seumes Papieren (1972)

Erich Remarque

Born 1898

Wrote All Quiet on the Western Front after his experience on the Western front

Left Germany in 1931

In 1933 the Nazi’s banned and destroyed all copies of All Quiet on the Western Front

In 1943 the Nazi party arrested his sister for ‘undermining morale’. She was sentenced to death by guillotine

Other Works of Erich Remarque

The Road Back 

Three Comrades

Arch of Triumph

A Spark of Life

Time to Live and Time to Die

Christa Wolf

Born March 18, 1929 in Brandenburg

Literacy Critic, Novelist, Essayist

One of the best-known writers from East Germany

First recipient of the German Book Prize

Best known work was with Der Geteilte Himmel (1963)

Anne Frank

Born June 12, 1929

German-Jewish teen, forced into hiding during the Holocaust

Spent 25 months above her father’s office in Amsterdam

In March, 1945, 9 months after she and her family was found. Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15.

Her Diary was published in 1947, later becoming one of the most widely read books in the world

Aldona Gustas

Born in Lithuania March 2, 1932

Moved to Berlin in 1941

Published 11 books of poetry between 1962-1980. 

Main theme being Love

Received Rahel Varnhagen Medal in 1997. 

Erich Kastner

Born in Dresden on February 23, 1899

Author, Screenwriter

Satire

Humorous Poetry

Children’s Literature

Drafted in WWI at 18 years old

Published Emil Und Die Detektive (1928)- Best-known children’s book

Novel Fabian (1931) made into movie released in 1980

Alfred Döblin 

Worked at Journalist in Berlin

Won Fontane Prize for Die drei Sprünge des Wang-Lung (1915)

Was German Army doctor during WWI

Became President of German Writers Association in 1924

Most famous work was Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)

Worked for MGM Studios in USA in 1940 before moving to France in 1945

Sources

http://www.lituanus.org/1981_4/81_4_07.htm#Ref

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldona_Gustas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Doblin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Doeblin

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_K%C3%A4stner

http://www.mertin-litag.de/authors_htm/Hilsenrath-E.htm 

http://www.nndb.com/people/079/000163587/

 http://www.mscd.edu/~mdl/gerresources/frauen/aseghers.htm

 http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2010/04/national-poetry-month-.html

http://klappentexterin.wordpress.com/category/fundstucke/page/2/  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Wolf

http://maps.thefullwiki.org/Christa_Wolf

http://www.thewiplist.com/celebrity/Christa+Wolf_10634129/

http://hansfallada.com/

http://hansfallada.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Fallada_1_DW_Kultur_818266g.jpg&w=300&h=275&zc=1&q=100

 http://germany.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2219

http://www.annefrank.com/who-is-anne-frank/ 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque

http://www.annefrank.com/who-is-anne-frank

Gender Roles Power Point

Berlin Calling

Questions

1. What do drugs mean to Ickarus?
-drugs mean inspiration, his creation, its how he get through his day.

2. Why, when, and how are his fans taking drugs, and which drugs do they take?
-extasy and cocain where the main drugs mentioned. Cocain for Ickarus was used on a daily bases. Extasy was used at a club one night that his pychosis started.

3. While we can see that his drug habits get him ill and into a psychosis, and while we witness his relapse and inability to work successfully, why does the subculture Ickarus is in focus on drugs?
-almost as the same to the meaning of drugs for ickarus, it gives them a get away. It puts this generation into their own fantasy to get away from the rest of the world. They can all connect as one and see things in the same view.

4. Compare the standards you know from your home society with the people you see depicted in this movie. Which are the stark differences and contrasts?
-well, where do i begin? There were many many many society differences, starting with the party scene. You see Alice walking around looking for Ikarus and we see what she sees, there is a couple 'doing business' in a room and when she opens the door, they awknowledge her but keep on going, there is no embarassment.

5. Germany is considered a strong industrial nation the world over. Do you think that the youth culture as depicted here could change that? How about work ethics of Ickarus and of Alice, the label director who fires and then re-signs him?
-the generation show in the movies shows a generation that doesn't listen to 'the man'. They get creative and are independent. This generation does have potential to make the nation as a whole more creative and independent, theres not a define 'man' in charge, the nation is the man.

6. Which similar "cult movies" of US origin have you seen, if any?
- I atually have not seen any 'cult' movie, didn't even know what one was untill the class talked about it. Even now I'm not quit sure what it is, or not sure i'll ever understand.

The 2008 movie, Berlin Calling, was quite an experience to watch. Comparing Berlin’s culture to our generations American Culture you see two completely different cultural norms. Where the differences were truly prominent are in the party scene. This is the scene where Alice is looking for Ickarus and as she travels around the club or house, where ever the party was taking place, you see different party scenes. She walks past many couples openly making out in the hallway, where in America, you might see that here with Public Displays of Affection (PDA) in clubs or even in school, but it is the intensity of their public display that was a bit risky. Moving on though the party scene, she opens a door to a small room. In the room there is a couple doing the dirty deed, in America if someone walked in on you doing the deed, you would try to cover yourself, yell to get out. It is a very private and personal, in most cases, matter that it is almost as if we are embarrassed of it as well, but in Berlin, in that room, they kept on going with their busy, yet made eye contact and acknowledged that Alice walked in, did not seem to bother them. Alice as well did not close the door right away, quickly shutting it and apologizing like one in America would do, she was actually trying to look beyond them to see in Ickarus was in the room with them! The drugs were a main part in this movie and at the same club but a different scene, after Ickarus has his psychosis, Alice goes back to the club, talks to the owner about the bad drug he was given and his reaction was different than an owner in America would. His reaction was ‘what a bad drug in my club, there are no BAD drugs in my club’, simply just worrying about it being bad, not the fact that there are any at all in his club. Overall, this was almost too awkward to watch as a class movie, it was a very good movie, good story line, questionable music (not something I am into) but overall a good movie, just awkward because of such different cultures between Berlin’s and my own.

Role of Men and Women in the 19th Cetury

Teachushistory.org

Magazines, newspapers and books were encouraged to be written for a wider variety of audience, intended for more women to start reading and to be more informed. Eighteenth century beliefs carried into 19^th century that women and men served different purposes, women are supposed to be the homemakers while men provided and worked to support the family. Men relied on the women to keep the house clean and peaceful, if women did not fulfill the need to be a great companion to her husband there was disappointment. As the century began to move forward more paying jobs for women began to increase. Leading into the 19^th century.

Wikipedia/women in science

Women’s contribution in science started to become more recognized, along with contributions in mathematics. In 1826 Mary Fairfax Somerville was only the second women to practice at the Royal Society of Science, she practiced magnetism. Nursing institutions for women started to appear and Catherine Brewer Benson was the first women to receive a bachelor’s degree from a college! Girl POWER J

Chapter 12

It is Autum of 1918 and Paul is sent back home on a 14 day leave due to exposure to gas. Paul is the only remaning classmate from when they first joined. In this short charpter Paul is spending time in a garden reflecting on the war, what has happend and what is to come. Currently everyone is talking about peace and the war stopping their fighting, but not quite the end. Paul is faced with the fact that he does not know what to do with himself. He reconizes that he is the lost generation. The elder generation doesn't understand what they are going through and the future generations won't stand them and think of them as outsiders.
In October 1918 Paul dies. Pauls face shows has a calm sense to it, almost as if he wanted the end to come.
The theme in this chapter is reflecting the post war Germany, how its going to be a struggle for the young soldiers to fit back into society.

Reflecting All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

                In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque wrote his 295 page novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. In 1930 it was transformed into an American film which went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture¹. The story line shows the lives of young men serving in the German army, losing their innocence and fighting for a lost cause. Audiences responded well worldwide to the book, selling 2.5 million copies in the first year and a half after coming out and in 25 different languages². But how did the audience respond to the movie?

                The movie was directed by Lewis Milestone, the film went on to grossed and estimated 3 million, which was an insane amount for the time³. On the Internet Data Base web site, viewers have given their feedback of the film, some of the reviews said as fallowed…

“To say that this movie is one of the greatest war films of all time would be an understatement.”

“The cinematography of this film is absolutely magnificent.”

“The film rarely has gory sequences because the director finds other ways to imply death and still have the same emotional effect.”

“…still holds astonishingly well to this day.”

                As concluded from the fallowing viewer quotes, it shows that there is a positive response to the movie. More years will go on and this film will continue to become older and older, but the storyline will continue to live on, remakes may happen to update it but it won’t be completely the same as this original. The film should be told to future generations because of the presence of death and the hardship of the time  is told greatly.

1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front#Film

3.       http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/business