Invested Narratives : : German Responses to Economic Crisis / / ed. by Jill E. Twark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Monika,; Brambora, Johannes,; Cooper, Alice H.,; Delianidou, Simela,; Kaipainen, Joel,; Konoe, Sara,; Kurzer, Paulette,; Köster, Roman,; Matthies, Annemarie,; Schmidt, Reinhard H.,; Twark, Jill E.,; Tönsing, Johanna,
• HerausgeberIn: Twark, Jill E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. Narrating Economics as Crisis -- 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 -- CHAPTER 2 Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for Building Community in the Mid‑Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel -- CHAPTER 3 Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great Depression in Weimar Germany -- 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 -- 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 -- CHAPTER 6 Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty -- CHAPTER 7 John von Düffel’s Ego (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the Neoliberal Crisis of the Self -- 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 -- CHAPTER 9 Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with Neoliberal Reforms -- 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 -- CHAPTER 11 An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis of Representation, and Jonas Lüscher’s Barbarian Spring -- INDEX