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<b>A unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner</b> Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you <i>here</i>?" This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder's book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. <i>Germania</i> is a very funny book on serious topics — how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape.
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Germania, Simon Winder
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2010
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Germania
- Untertitel
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Simon Winder
- Verlag
- Picador
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2010
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 480
- ISBN10
- 0330522817
- ISBN13
- 9780330522816
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Reisen, Deutsche Literatur, Deutschland, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Geschichte Europas
- Beschreibung
- <b>A unique exploration of German culture, from sausage advertisements to Wagner</b> Sitting on a bench at a communal table in a restaurant in Regensburg, his plate loaded with disturbing amounts of bratwurst and sauerkraut made golden by candlelight shining through a massive glass of beer, Simon Winder was happily swinging his legs when a couple from Rottweil politely but awkwardly asked: "So: why are you <i>here</i>?" This book is an attempt to answer that question. Why spend time wandering around a country that remains a sort of dead zone for many foreigners, surrounded as it is by a force field of historical, linguistic, climatic, and gastronomic barriers? Winder's book is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. <i>Germania</i> is a very funny book on serious topics — how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: odd food, castles, mad princes, fairy tales, and horse-mating videos. It is about the limits of language, the meaning of culture, and the pleasure of townscape.