Listen to Germany: A musically-illustrated journey through Germany's cultural history from its beginnings to the present day. Grußwort von Außenminister Steinmeier

Corinna Hesse

ISBN 10: 3940665061 ISBN 13: 9783940665065

Publisher: Silberfuchs(Fenn Music Service)

Synopsis

Really, there's no such thing as the Germans. The independent regions in central Europe took a long time to come together. Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, sighed the torn national hero, Faust, immoral and at the same time, thirsty for knowledge. This split self-consciousness accompanies German history, both in its productivity and its destructiveness. But it's precisely out of these contrasts that artists developed their ideas. In her musically illustrated journey of sound, ARD cultural journalist Corinna Hesse uses information, original texts and music from two millenia to create a complete picture out of pieces in a mosaic. The CD tells how Luther and Kant revolutionised thought and beliefs. Bach, Beethoven and Wagner influenced musical history in Europe just as Albrecht Dürer, Caspar David Friedrich or the Weimar Bauhaus influenced art, architecture and the sphere in which we live. In the zero hour following World War II, input from writers and artists sparked a critical debate with contemporary history and aided the discovery of identity in a divided and then reunited Germany. With profundity and irony, artists today still reflect the Germans' search for cultural identity in a pluralistic society. 1. The forged heavens: Star-gazing in the Bronze Age 2. In the enemy's mirror Roman writer Tacitus invents Germania 3. Woden's Journey: The Merseburg charms and the Song of Hildebrand 4. Organised education: Charlemagne and the cultivation of the Germans 5. Beautiful illusion and bloody business: The troubadour Walther von der Vogelweide and the Song of the Nibelungs 6. The burning God: Mystical love poetry and the Isenheim Altar 7. Of literary fools and fallen angels: Sebastian Brant and Albrecht Dürer 8. The power of words and the subservient freedom of a Christian: Martin Luther 9. Voices of the people: the Mastersingers and the tragic end of Doctor Faustus 10. Tears of the Fatherland and the satire of Simplicissimus: The Thirty Years' War 11. Everything according to measures and numbers: The harmonious cosmos from Kepler to Bach 12. Maxims of the will: King Frederick the Great of Prussia and a great philosopher in the distance 13. Human drama: Lessing's Nathan and Goethe's Faust 14. Beggars become princes brothers Friedrich Schiller and Ludwig van Beethoven 15. Drawings and miracles: A mermaid at the cliffs and an abbey amidst the oak trees 16. The curse of gold: The Communist Manifesto and Wagner s Ring Trilogy 17. The master race and the vassal 18. Tatooed bellies and the School of Vision Dadaism in Berlin and Bauhaus in Weimar 19. Hard times for tin drummers or: Let's elect another people! 20. Of tabletop fountains and hobby gardeners: Germany after reunification

About this edition

• Publisher: Silberfuchs(Fenn Music Service)
• ISBN 10: 3940665061
• ISBN 13: 9783940665065
• Binding: CD de audio
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 16