Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Poets and Writers in the 18th Century

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Poets and writers 18th century



The interest of German poets and writers in their ancient predecessors, which is shown in ancient literature, continued into the eighteenth century. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's (1724–1803) patriotic poetry was inspired by the ancient literature. The members of a group of poets called the Göttinger Hain , founded in 1772 were also inspired by this writing.
Clip. The twentieth century scholar, Norbert Elias, has shown that the attention that bourgeois Germans of the eighteenth century devoted to the origins and the virtuous character of their nation was motivated in large part by their rejection of powerful aristocrats and courtiers, who modeled themselves on French counterparts. End Clip. <http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Germany.html#ixzz1chMOiynJ> November 1st, 2011


Joseph von Eichendorff



Joseph Eichendorff was born March 10th, 1788. Joseph was a poet and novelist and is considered one of the great writers of the German Romantic Movement (movement containing art with extreme feeling and imagination instead of traditions).
  • Studied law at Heidelberg (published first verse and became acquainted with the Romantics)
  • Fought against Napoleon in Prussian war of liberation
  • Prussian war = inspiration for poems, wrote romantic novel Ahnung und Gegenwart (in 1819, Premonition and Present; a need for spiritual cure for moral ills) and Novellen des Marmorbilds (also 1819, Novellas of a Marble Statue; much like a fairy tale)
  • Poetic collection Gedichte (Poems) written in 1837 inspired composers such as: Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, and Richard Strauss
  • 1826: published important Romantic fiction Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing)
  • Died November 26th, 1857 in Neisse


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749.



  • 1765-1771: studied law in Leibzig and Stasbourg
  • Earned recognition at college for his poems and lyrics
  • Returned to Frankfurt and practiced law and poetry/writing
  • 1773: Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand published and made Goethe a main representative for the Sturm und Drang movement
  • Recognized for literature was invited to Weimar and took over many political offices
  • 1786-1790: Science was more important to him then his literature so he travelled through Italy to do scientific research
  • 1794: Freidrich Schiller helped Goethe find a new style of writing now know as the Weimarer Klassik
  • 1808: Goethe finished Faust
  • 1811-1814: finished autobiography
  • 1831: finished Faust 2
  • Died 1832


Johann Christoph Friedrich
von Schiller



Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was born in 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg. Schiller's parents were of Lutheran. Johannes Kaspar Schiller, his father, was an officer and surgeon.
  • Ordered by Duke Karl Eugen (Charles II) to attend military academy verses studying theology like Schiller originally planned
  • Military strengthened his need for freedom
  • Studied law then entered medical department
  • 1780: dismissed from academy after writing controversial essay on religion and forced to join father's regiment
  • 1781: Die Rauber (The Robbers) published, his first drama about an outlaw, Karl Moor, who rejected his fathers values; successful among students
  • Fled to Wurttemberg because of pressure from the Duke about his 'Sturm und Drang' writings
  • 1787: wrote Don Carlos with continued father and son conflict
  • With Goethe's influence Schiller was appointed professor of history at Jena
  • 1787-1792: wrote on historical subjects including history of the Thirty Years War (1791-1793)
  • 1790: married Charlotte von Lengefeldt
  • Throughout 1790's wrote philosophical poems and studies about philosophy under influence of Kant
  • Assisted Goethe in Weimar in the direction of the Court Theater by adapting many plays for the stage
  • Popular for An Die Freude (Ode to Joy) which was later turned to music by Ludwig van Beethoven and his Wallenstein trilogy about the Thirty Years War
  • Died at age 46 in Weimar on May 9th, 1805




The Luther Bible


  • Written in Upper Saxony German
  • Spread throughout German Speaking world
  • Main readers were the educated society
  • Occurred during Age of Enlightenment (18th Century)


Age of Enlightenment


  • Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership
  • High society spoke French
  • After 1750 German culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature was transformed to higher quality which started the Enlightenment
  • Christian Wolff (1679-1754): writer who explained the Enlightenment to German readers; legitimized German as philosophic language
  • Proto-Romanticism, Weimar Classicism movements occurred aiming to establish new humanism by combining romantic, classical, and enlightened ideas
  • Important individuals = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  • The Enlightenment won support of princes, aristocrats, and middle classes which permanently reshaped the German culture


German artists and intellects were influenced by the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism. The Brothers Grimm (1785-1863 & 1786-1859) were popular during the eighteenth century for writing Grimm's Fairy Tales and being some of the founding fathers of German philology and German studies.
Clip. At the universities high-powered professors developed international reputations, especially in the humanities led by history and philology, which brought a new historical perspective to the study of political history, theology, philosophy, language, and literature. With Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) in philosophy, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) in theology and Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) in history, the University of Berlin, founded in 1810, became the world's leading university. Von Ranke, for example, professionalized history and set the world standard for historiography. By the 1830s mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology had emerged with world class science, led by Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) in natural science and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) in mathematics. Young intellectuals often turned to politics, but their support for the failed Revolution of 1848 forced many into exile. End Clip. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_history#1648-1815> November 2nd, 2011



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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Men and Women's roles in the 18th Century

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19th Century Inventions and Industry



Inventions:


Bicycle
The earliest bicycle was a wooden scooter-like contraption called a celerifere; invented around 1790 by Comte Mede de Sivrac of France. In 1816, Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun, of Germany, invented a model with a steering bar attached to the front wheel, which he called a Draisienne or laufmaschine (running machine) weighing around 48 pounds. The bike had two wheels of the same size with a seat in between them and a bar to steer the front wheel. The rider would sit on the seat and propel themselves forward with their legs. Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun exhibited his bicycle in Paris on April 6, 1818.


Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss (1829-1902) was an entrepreneur who invented and marketed blue jeans. He trained as a tailor in Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany. Strauss moved to the United States and sold dry goods to the 49ers (people who came to California during the gold rush which started in 1849). In 1873, Strauss and Jacob Davis (a Nevada tailor) patented the idea, which was thought up by Davis, of using copper rivets at the stress points of sturdy work pants. Early on, Levis (then known as “waist overalls”) were made from brown canvas duck fabric and heavy blue denim fabric. The duck fabric pants were not very successful, so were dropped early on. Levi Strauss business was a hit and became very successful and continues to be a popular brand of pants today.


Bunsen Burner
The laboratory Bunsen burner was invented by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in 1855. Bunsen (1811-1899) was a German chemist and teacher. He invented the Bunsen burner for his research in isolating chemical substances - it has a high-intensity, non-luminous flame that does not interfere with the colored flame emitted by chemicals being tested.

Contact Lenses
The idea of contact lenses was envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci around 1508 and later thought of by Rene Descartes in the sixteen hundreds but was invented until 1887 by German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick (1829-1901). Fick first made the lenses for animals and eventually made them for people. Fick's lenses were made from heavy brown glass and were 18-21 mm in diameter. Later the lenses were improved in 1889 by August Muller to help people with nearsightedness.


Kindergarten

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator and educational reformer who invented the kindergarten meaning "garden of children". He opened the first kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg in 1837. Froebel also founded a kindergarten training school at Liebenstein, Germany in 1849. After some conflicts and mistaken charges of treason, the German government banned the establishment of kindergartens in 1851 but in 1860 the government repealed the ban, and kindergartens re-opened. Unfortunately Froebel had already passed away. Froebel's kindergartens included pleasant surroundings, self-motivated activity, play, music, and the physical training of the child.

Motorcycle
The earliest motorcycle was a coal-powered, two-cylinder, steam-driven motorcycle that was developed in 1867 by the American inventor Sylvester Howard Roper. A gas-powered motorcycle was invented by the German inventor Gottlieb Daimler in 1885 who collaborated with Wilhelm Maybach. His mainly wooden motorcycle had iron-banded wheels with wooden spokes and was powered by a single-cylinder engine. To start it a person would have to crank the crank handle. The motorcycle was powered by benzine (petrol).


X-rays
X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen (1845-1923). Roentgen was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields. He even photographed part of his own skeleton. X-rays were soon used as an important diagnostic tool in medicine. Roentgen called these waves "X-radiation" because so little was known about them.

Aspirin
Felix Hoffman created aspirin and was sold by the Bayer company on August 10th, 1897. Hoffman discovered a synthesized white powder also known as acetylsalicylic acid. The white powder was capable of relieving pain, causing nausea, and can corrode the mucous membranes. After testing within the company, the sales figures were sensational and became best-selling on the market. About 12,000 of the 50,000 tons of acetylsalicyclic acid produced annually still come from Bayer.

Automobile

In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. On January 29, 1886, Benz received the first patent for a gas-fueled car. It was a three-wheeler. Benz built his first four-wheeled car in 1891. Benz & Company, the company started by the inventor, became the world's largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1900.

Bacteriology
When herds of livestock were stricken by a dangerous disease throughout Europe in 1870, Robert Koch, a country doctor from Posen (Posen owned by Germany in the 1870's and later during WWII, but is now part of Poland), decided to search for the cause.
He saved a large proportion of his money to buy a microscope and examined the animal substances for possible pathogens. He soon made a find. Bacteria were the cause of the disease. With this discovery, Koch founded a new branch of science: bacteriology. Whether epidemics or gangrene: the new findings were a call to battle against many infectious diseases and advanced hygiene as the foundation of human health. The discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus in 1882 brought international fame to Robert Koch and drove the scientist to further studies.

Glider

The research of Otto Lilienthal, an inventor born in Anklam, Mecklenburg, showed that birds flight is due to the curvature of the wing and not a defeat of gravity which was earlier presumed. Thanks to his skilled craftsmanship, he became in 1894 the first flyer in the history of mankind with his glider. As a leading expert in the area of flight technology, Lilienthal wrote articles and corresponded with other flight pioneers around the world. In 1896, he died tragically during a test flight. His findings led the Wright brothers in the USA to the discovery of the motorized airplane.

Record Player (Gramophone)
With the invention of the record player in 1887, Emile Berliner brought music into the living room for more than 100 years. He changed the angle between the needle and carrier foil by 90 degrees.



Telephone
The telephone was invented by at least five different people in four different countries. Although the Scottish-American Alexander Graham Bell is generally credited as the "winner" in the race to invent the telephone in the period between 1850 and 1876, his invention was paralleled by the German Philipp Reis, the Belgian-French M. Charles Bourseul, the Italian Antonio Meucci, and the American Elisha Gray.
Reis had started to develop the telephone by putting together a violin, a knitting needle, a large cork, a coil of wire, and a sausage. This was the beginnings of his building process and after nine years of working towards a telephone Reis had refined his device to the point that he could present it to Frankfurt's Physics Association (known as Der Physikalische Verein) in 1861. A few were made but Reis's machine wasn't practical enough to become commercial by only being able to transmit unclear sound. Reis died and two years later Bell's patent was created in 1876.



Four-stroke internal combustion engine (Viertakt-Verbrennungsmotor)
Nikolaus August Otto (1832-1891) was born in Holzhausen, Germany. In 1876, together with Eugen Langen (1833-1895), he pioneered the four-stroke internal combustion engine. However, Otto's patent was invalidated in 1886 when it was discovered that another inventor, the Frenchman Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815-1845), had described the four-stroke cycle principle in an earlier published paper.

Diesel Engine (der Dieselmotor )
After many years of work, in 1897 Rudolf succeeded in running a diesel engine . In 1898 Rudolf then wrote a patent for the “internal combustion engine”. Rudolf proved that a theoretical 75.6% efficiency was possible, whereas the popular at the time steam engine only was able to achieve 10-12%. Through licensing the patent he was soon able to become a millionaire.







Industry


Clip. The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in Britain, then subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the world.
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth. In the two centuries following 1800, the world's average per capita income increased over tenfold, while the world's population increased over sixfold.

The introduction of steam power fueled primarily by coal, wider utilisation of water wheels and powered machinery (mainly in textile manufacturing) underpinned the dramatic increases in production capacity. The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the 19th century facilitated the manufacture of more production machines for manufacturing in other industries.

The First Industrial Revolution, which began in the 18th century, merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships, railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electrical power generation.

In terms of social structure, the Industrial Revolution witnessed the triumph of a middle class of industrialists and businessmen over a landed class of nobility and gentry. Ordinary working people found increased opportunities for employment in the new mills and factories, but these were often under strict working conditions with long hours of labour dominated by a pace set by machines. As late as the year 1900, most industrial workers in the United States still worked a 10-hour day (12 hours in the steel industry), yet earned from 20 to 40 percent less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life. However, harsh working conditions were prevalent long before the Industrial Revolution took place. Pre-industrial society was very static and often cruel—child labor, dirty living conditions, and long working hours were just as prevalent before the Industrial Revolution.

Based on its leadership in chemical research in the universities and industrial laboratories, Germany became dominant in the world's chemical industry in the late 19th century. At first the production of dyes based on aniline was critical. Germany
Germany's political disunity—with three dozen states—and a pervasive conservatism made it difficult to build railways in the 1830s. However, by the 1840s, trunk lines linked the major cities; each German state was responsible for the lines within its own borders. Lacking a technological base at first, the Germans imported their engineering and hardware from Britain, but quickly learned the skills needed to operate and expand the railways. In many cities, the new railway shops were the centres of technological awareness and training, so that by 1850, Germany was self-sufficient in meeting the demands of railroad construction, and the railways were a major impetus for the growth of the new steel industry. Observers found that even as late as 1890, their engineering was inferior to Britain’s. However, German unification in 1870 stimulated consolidation, nationalisation into state-owned companies, and further rapid growth. Unlike the situation in France, the goal was support of industrialisation, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Ruhr and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Hamburg and Bremen. By 1880, Germany had 9,400 locomotives pulling 43,000 passengers and 30,000 tons of freight, and pulled ahead of France. End Clip. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution#Germany> December 7th, 2011.




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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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German Music, Dance, and Theater 1901- 2000

MUSIC:


In the beginning of the twentieth century opera was popular. Some popular German composers were Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950), Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963), Carl Orff (1895 – 1982), and Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905 – 1963).

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (popular scenic cantata) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM (1:22)

Carl Orff


Once the Nazi party came to power many German composers went to the United States including Schoenberg, Hindemith, and Erich Korngold. The Nazi's destroyed any music they felt had to do with Jews, Communists, jazz, or anything else they deemed 'dangerous'. When world war two ended musicians were subjected to denazification.
In the 60's and 70's the Darmstadt New Music Summer School had a large influence on music and modernization in West Germany. A few of the famous composers who had attended this school were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Wener Henze. In East Germany they were told to avoid the ways of West Germany and follow a more social realistic approach.

The largest summer festival for classical music in Germany is the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Held every summer in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and was founded in 1986 by the German Pianist Justus Frantz. Each year the festival has a different country focus. In 2007 the focus was Hungary, in 2008 Russia, in 2009 Germany(home land), and in 2010 the focus was Poland.

Clip: Music is the life and blood of Germany. Most of the famous musicians and composers, over the ages have been from Germany. The German musical legacy holds the tunes of Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner and many more. Wagner, Strauss, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Brahms, Schumann, Handel, Telemann etc. are some of the composers of international repute, hailing from Germany.

With around one hundred and forty one professional orchestras, the country has the fifth largest music market in the world. Some of the famous orchestras in Germany are - the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic orchestras etc.
From classical to romantic, pop to rock, Germany shines as a pearl in the western music scenario. End Clip. <http://www.asiarooms.com/en/travel-guide/germany/culture-of-germany/music-and-dance-in-germany.html> November 29th, 2011.





DANCE:



Dance is very popular in Germany and plays a large part in the German culture itself. Dance has been part of the culture since the beginning. Germany is well known for their performing arts. There are many freelancers and choreographers performing within and outside of the country constantly. Germany has over two-hundred fifty ballet companies and over sixteen-hundred dancers that are employed by theaters.

German dance is dominated by traditional classical dance along side of modern expression. Traditional dance would follow more ballet style where as expressionist dance would be more “Tanztheater”. “Tanztheater” is a style of dancing which originated from the actual Tanztheater that started with expressionist dance in the twenties and became the political street theater in the sixties. Some skilled dancers of the “Tanztheater” dance form are Johann Kresnik and Sasha Waltz from Berlin and Pina Bausch of Wuppertal. Folk dance is also popular in Germany.
Currently, for the younger generation dance clubs are popular. Most traditional dancing is not followed in the clubs, but rather a modern combination of dances (hip hop, techno, jazz, salsa etc.).


Popular Dance Clubs in Berlin, Germany:
Kit Kat Klub
Knaack Klub
Sage Club
Watergate
Havanna
SO 36
Berghain


Folk Dances:

Ländler- Clip: is a dance for couples which strongly features hopping and stamping. It was sometimes purely instrumental and sometimes had a vocal part, sometimes featuring yodeling. The Broadway musical and later film The Sound of Music features a scene where the protagonists Maria and Captain von Trapp dance a ländler; however, it is not a traditional but a choreographed form. End Clip <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ländler> November 30th, 2011

Schuhplattler – Originated in Upper Bavaria and originally had no rules but later was performed in 3/4 time with a series of jumps and hip movements to the beat of the music. Now it is usually performed out of tradition.

Waltz – Ballroom and folk dance combined possibly originating in Augsburg in the sixteenth century.



Popular Ballets:
Berlin State Ballet (German Staatsballett Berlin)- created in 2004 by merging three ballet companies when the city was going through financial problems. One of the largest ballet companies in Europe with almost 90 dancers



Hamburg Ballet (Hamburg State Opera Ballet) – Located in Hamburg, Germany and since 1973 it has been directed by the American dancer and choreographer John Neumeier.



Stuttgart Ballet– First major German ballet that gains its popularity in the 1960's. Clip: The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's ''Die Kameliendame and Streetcar Named Desire, continues to be defined critically as one of the world's best ballet theatres for its combination of classical, story and new modern ballets. End Clip <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Ballet> November 30th, 2011


Popular Choreographers:





THEATER:

Theater has always played a large role in German culture. It currently plays such a large role that around 150 theaters receive government funding. Some of these funded theaters house music, dancing, and plays. In addition to the 150 government funded theaters Germany has almost 280 private theaters of different sizes, histories, and traditions. Some historical reasoning as to why there are so many theaters has to do with Clip: when the country was divided among many royal houses, each court had a theater as a status symbol. The educated middle-class elite identified with it as well. End Clip <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3871070,00.html> November 30th, 2011.
The smallest theater Germany has is the Theader in Freinsheim located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate seating twenty guests and stage room for four actors. While one of the largest theaters Germany has is the Deutsche Theater in Berlin which seats 1,600 guests and puts on more than 300 shows every year.


Nazi's:

Once the Nazi's were under control many directors and actors fled the country including Max Reinhard and Bertholt Brecht. 

Max Reinhard


Roughly four-thousand people involved with theater fled. If an actor was Jewish they were either exiled or forced to retire early. A large influence on theater during this time was Adam Muller-Gutenbrunn. He aimed for a “popular theater” by spreading slander about theaters that had affiliation with Jews including all theaters in Vienna. Vienna's theatrical demise could have had something to do with Hitler discovering his hate for Jewish people in Vienna. Hitler pushed to the people that they needed to control the amount of control Jews had over theater and even encouraged performance censorship. Many of Hitlers followers dabbled in theater by making plays that discriminated against Jews, used propaganda towards Jews, or publicized Hitler to satisfy him. Once Hitler was chancellor theater was reorganized with Joseph Goebbels in charge. This included things like having to be part of a chamber to act, non-german words being removed from theaters, and Goebbels even attempted to purify the audience which wasn't successful until 1941 when Jews were forced to wear yellow stars.

After WWII:

It was hard for Germany to recover from the horrific past but part of how they did this was through theater. 'Grotesque theater' was plays written that showed the magnitude of the effects of the war and the war in general. This became on of the most important post war theater styles because it made everyone realize and face what happened in the war since most of it was under wraps.


Durrenmatt was another theme that came after the war. Durrenmatt (1921-1990) created this theme because he thought that laughing was important in getting over a tragedy. This style separates the audience from the play. Many of the plays created after the war are still played today but are played out of respect rather than conviction.



Another popular style of theater is documentary drama which takes away the creative rewriting of history and replaces it with a performance based on facts and bare essentials of the historical truth.







WEBSITES:

<http://www.networkdance.com/> November 29th, 2011
<http://www.dancetop40.com/DE> November 29th, 2011
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz> November 30th, 2011

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