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Invested Narratives

German Responses to Economic Crisis

Jill E. Twark (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-693-1 (ISBN)

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German economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets tumble, accompanied by inflation, deflation, and overwhelming debt. The contributors to Invested Narratives assess German-language economic crisis narratives from the interdisciplinary perspectives of finance, economics, political science, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies. They interpret the ways German society has tried to comprehend, recover from, and avoid economic crises and in doing so widen our understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union.

Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature and culture. Along with her monograph, Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German Literature in the 1990s (De Gruyter 2007), she has edited books on post-unification German humor and social-justice dilemmas.

Introduction: Narrating Economics as Crisis

Jill E. Twark

Part I: Shaping Economic Knowledge from Historical Perspectives

Chapter 1. German Finanzkapitalismus: A Narrative of Deutsche Bank and its Role in the German Financial System

Reinhard H Schmidt

Chapter 2. Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for Building Community in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel

Johannes Brambora

Chapter 3. Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great Depression in Weimar Germany

Roman Köster

Chapter 4. The Moral Equation Works Out Differently: The Great Depression, the Crisis of Knowledge, and Value Order in Erich Kästner’s Fabian: The Story of a Moralist

Simela Delianidou

Part II: German Narratives of Work and Unemployment

Chapter 5. Unemployment as Crisis: Past and Present German-Language Sociological Narratives on the Loss of Work

Annemarie Matthies

Chapter 6. Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty

Jill E. Twark

Chapter 7. John von Düffel’s Ego (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the Neoliberal Crisis of the Self

Johanna Tönsing

Part III: German ‘Exceptionalism’ in Contemporary European Crisis Situations

Chapter 8. Germany’s Compromises: The Impact of Crisis Narratives on the European Central Bank and Euro Governance

Sara Konoe

Chapter 9. Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with Neoliberal Reforms

Paulette Kurzer and Alice H. Cooper

Part IV: The Tricky Question of Cause and Effect

Chapter 10. Literature against the ‘Profit-Friendly Ideological Defense System’:Entertainment and Sociopolitical Enlightenment in Uwe Timm’s Headhunter

Monika Albrecht

Chapter 11. An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis of Representation and Jonas Lüscher’s Barbarian Spring

Joel Kaipainen

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80073-693-2 / 1800736932
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-693-1 / 9781800736931
Zustand	Neuware