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View article: Parables, Fairy Tales, and the Stasi: The <i>Liedertheater</i> of Gerhard Gundermann’s Brigade Feuerstein
Parables, Fairy Tales, and the Stasi: The <i>Liedertheater</i> of Gerhard Gundermann’s Brigade Feuerstein Open
The East German protest singer, dramatist, and coal miner Gerhard Gundermann came to international attention in 2018 with the release of Andreas Dresen’s film Gundermann. This coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the artist’s premat…
View article: THE INFLUENCE OF BRIGITTE REIMANN'S <i>FRANZISKA LINKERHAND</i> ON THE POLITICAL SONGS OF GERHARD GUNDERMANN
THE INFLUENCE OF BRIGITTE REIMANN'S <i>FRANZISKA LINKERHAND</i> ON THE POLITICAL SONGS OF GERHARD GUNDERMANN Open
Gerhard Gundermann was an East German open cast miner and ‘Liedermacher’ who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of forty‐three. Although he is known for his controversial involvement with the Stasi in his early career, very little has bee…
View article: The <i>Krabat</i> Motif in the Songs and Musicals of <i>Liedermacher</i> Gerhard Gundermann
The <i>Krabat</i> Motif in the Songs and Musicals of <i>Liedermacher</i> Gerhard Gundermann Open
This article looks at Gerhard Gundermann’s use of the Krabat motif from Jurij Brězan’s novel Krabat or the Transformation of the World in his Liedertheater productions with Brigade Feuerstein in the GDR and, post-unification, in his solo s…
View article: A heroism for the new times in the protest songs of Gerhard Gundermann
A heroism for the new times in the protest songs of Gerhard Gundermann Open
The story of East German singer-songwriter Gerhard Gundermann provides a vibrant illustration of a much-neglected area of protest song history. Gundermann, who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of 43, was an excavator driver in an open c…
View article: Ton Steine Scherben: A Unique Hybrid of Psychedelic Rock and Battle Song
Ton Steine Scherben: A Unique Hybrid of Psychedelic Rock and Battle Song Open
This article will examine the relationship of the anarchist rock group Ton Steine Scherben to the tradition of the German battle song. After setting the group in the context of the countercultural scene of West Berlin of the 1970s, the art…
View article: Utopia and Disillusion in the Songs of Gundermann: From the Brigade Feuerstein Productions in the GDR to his Solo Albums (1990s)
Utopia and Disillusion in the Songs of Gundermann: From the Brigade Feuerstein Productions in the GDR to his Solo Albums (1990s) Open
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View article: Utopia and Disillusion in the Songs of Gundermann: From the Brigade Feuerstein Productions in the GDR to his Solo Albums (1990s)
Utopia and Disillusion in the Songs of Gundermann: From the Brigade Feuerstein Productions in the GDR to his Solo Albums (1990s) Open
View article: The Romance of Terror: Stevenson's Dynamiter and Verne's Submariner
The Romance of Terror: Stevenson's Dynamiter and Verne's Submariner Open
Discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's co-authored novel The Dynamiters (More New Arabian Nights, 1885) in the context of late Victorian bombing campaigns and use of dynamite by Irish Fenians and anarchists, exploring the generic differences b…
View article: Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton (eds), <i>Music and Protest in 1968</i> (2013)
Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton (eds), <i>Music and Protest in 1968</i> (2013) Open
A review of Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton (eds), Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). ISBN 978-1-107-00732-1
View article: Ernst Busch, Rio Reiser, and Gerhard Gundermann: Examples of Proletarian Narrative Role-Play in German Political Song
Ernst Busch, Rio Reiser, and Gerhard Gundermann: Examples of Proletarian Narrative Role-Play in German Political Song Open
View article: Mental Causation and Intelligibility
Mental Causation and Intelligibility Open
I look at some central positions in the mental causation debate – reductionism, emergentism, and nonreductive physicalism – on the hypothesis that mental causation is intelligible. On this hypothesis, mental causes and their effects are in…