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Book German Wit and Humor

Download or read book German Wit and Humor written by Mrs. Minna Sophie Marie Baumann Downes and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Wit And Humor

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  • Author : Mrs Minna Sophie Marie Baumann Downes
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2019-04-12
  • ISBN : 9781013092381
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book German Wit And Humor written by Mrs Minna Sophie Marie Baumann Downes and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book German Wit and Humor

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  • Author : Minna Downs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-03-25
  • ISBN : 9781481114820
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book German Wit and Humor written by Minna Downs and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXACT reproduction of the original book GERMAN WIT AND HUMOR first published in 1903. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Permission to Laugh

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  • Author : Gregory H. Williams
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 0226898954
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Permission to Laugh written by Gregory H. Williams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permission to Laugh explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six of them—Martin Kippenberger, Isa Genzken, Rosemarie Trockel, Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, and Werner Büttner—who came of age in the mid-1970s in the art scenes of West Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. Williams argues that each employed a distinctive brand of humor that responded to the period of political apathy that followed a decade of intense political ferment in West Germany. Situating these artists between the politically motivated art of 1960s West Germany and the trends that followed German unification in 1990, Williams describes how they no longer heeded calls for a brighter future, turning to jokes, anecdotes, and linguistic play in their work instead of overt political messages. He reveals that behind these practices is a profound loss of faith in the belief that art has the force to promulgate political change, and humor enabled artists to register this changed perspective while still supporting isolated instances of critical social commentary. Providing a much-needed examination of the development of postmodernism in Germany, Permission to Laugh will appeal to scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, as well as fans of these internationally renowned artists.

Book The World s Wit and Humor  German

Download or read book The World s Wit and Humor German written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Wit and Humor

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-02
  • ISBN : 9780243238958
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book German Wit and Humor written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from German Wit and Humor: A Collection From Various Sources Classified Under Appropriate Subject Headings A fool may sometimes be a better judge than a wise man, writes Johannes Andrea of a fool. Once a beggar entered the {kitchen of a tavern. A large piece Of meat was roasting on the spit, and the poor man took his bread from his pocket and held it Over the roast, so the Odor would penetrate it, then he ate it. When all his bread was gone he turned to leave, but the host went after him and demanded his pay. The poor man said, You did not give me either meat or drink; so what should I pay you for? The host replied, You feasted on what was mine, on the Odor of the roast, and you shall pay me for that. They went to court about it, but judgment was suspended, until next court-day. Now one of the judges had a fool at home, and at dinner this case was talked about Said the fool: Pay the host with the jingle of the money, as the poor man \feasted on the Odor of the roast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Underground Humour In Nazi Germany  1933 1945

Download or read book Underground Humour In Nazi Germany 1933 1945 written by Dr F K M Hillenbrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all Germans living under Hitler succumbed passively to the rhetoric and horror of the Nazi regime. Covert popular opposition in the form of humorous resistance was wider spread than is commonly thought. Embracing jokes, stories and 60 cartoons, this is the only collection in English of underground anti-Nazi humour. It is, as such, an invaluable contribution to the social history of twentieth century Germany.

Book Pennsylvania German Wit and Humor

Download or read book Pennsylvania German Wit and Humor written by Leo Albert Bressler and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humor in Mark Twain   s  The Awful German Language

Download or read book Humor in Mark Twain s The Awful German Language written by Andreas Nauhardt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Germany and the Germans in American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I am going to analyze Twain’s incomparable and particular usage of humor in his essay The Awful German Language. Therein, Twain uses humor as an instrument to criticize the German language. Without its witty and diversified character the essay would be a provocative and mean accusation. I will support my thesis with the help of additional information about the author’s biography and his first experiences with the German language. To explain my thesis and to understand the author’s concerns it is important to draw these connections. Moreover, I will go into detail about the essay structure to illustrate its critical character and effect. The large amount of stylistic devices that make the essay particularly impressive and remarkable will be parsed and discussed in addition. Eventually, I will comment on the essay’s impact on success and distinction. In doing so, the sustainability of this piece will be explained.

Book Dead Funny

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  • Author : Rudolph Herzog
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2011-04-26
  • ISBN : 193555493X
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Dead Funny written by Rudolph Herzog and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed Hitler and Göring are standing on top of the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners’ faces. Göring says, “Why don’t you jump?” When a woman told this joke in Germany in 1943, she was arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death by guillotine—it didn’t matter that her husband was a good German soldier who died in battle. In this groundbreaking work of history, Rudolph Herzog takes up such stories to show how widespread humor was during the Third Reich. It’s a fascinating and frightening history: from the suppression of the anti-Nazi cabaret scene of the 1930s, to jokes made at the expense of the Nazis during WWII, to the collections of “whispered jokes” that were published in the immediate aftermath of the war. Herzog argues that jokes provide a hitherto missing chapter of WWII history. The jokes show that not all Germans were hypnotized by Nazi propaganda, and, in taking on subjects like Nazi concentration camps, they record a public acutely aware of the horrors of the regime. Thus Dead Funny is a tale of terrible silence and cowardice, but also of occasional and inspiring bravery.

Book Humor in Mark Twain s  The Awful German Language

Download or read book Humor in Mark Twain s The Awful German Language written by Andreas Nauhardt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Germany and the Germans in American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: In the following paper I am going to analyze Twain's incomparable and particular usage of humor in his essay The Awful German Language. Therein, Twain uses humor as an instrument to criticize the German language. Without its witty and diversified character the essay would be a provocative and mean accusation. I will support my thesis with the help of additional information about the author's biography and his first experiences with the German language. To explain my thesis and to understand the author's concerns it is important to draw these connections. Moreover, I will go into detail about the essay structure to illustrate its critical character and effect. The large amount of stylistic devices that make the essay particularly impressive and remarkable will be parsed and discussed in addition. Eventually, I will comment on the essay's impact on success and distinction. In doing so, the sustainability of this piece will be explained.

Book The Soul of Wit

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  • Author : Carl Dale Hill
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803223691
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Soul of Wit written by Carl Dale Hill and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witz can serve either builders or destroyers, defenders of the faith or heretics, diplomats or oafs, male chauvinists or radical feminists. Witz shows its volatility in setting up cultural, class, and gender boundaries just to smash them. Hill argues that there is something about Witz that makes it quintessential to the plight of modern culture. He views Witz as an ahistorical subject developing over time and transcending the lifespans and intentions of the authors who have written with or about it.

Book Modern German Humor

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  • Author : Thomas John Garrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Modern German Humor written by Thomas John Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany

Download or read book Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany written by Valerie Weinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many Germans remain nostalgic about "classic" film comedies created during the 1930s, viewing them as a part of the Nazi era that was not tainted with antisemitism. In Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany, Valerie Weinstein scrutinizes these comic productions and demonstrates that film comedy, despite its innocent appearance, was a critical component in the effort to separate "Jews" from "Germans" physically, economically, and artistically. Weinstein highlights how the German propaganda ministry used directives, pre- and post-production censorship, financial incentives, and influence over film critics and their judgments to replace Jewish "wit" with a slower, simpler, and more direct German "humor" that affirmed values that the Nazis associated with the Aryan race. Through contextualized analyses of historical documents and individual films, Weinstein reveals how humor, coded hints and traces, absences, and substitutes in Third Reich film comedy helped spectators imagine an abstract "Jewishness" and a "German" identity and community free from the former. As resurgent populist nationalism and overt racism continue to grow around the world today, Weinstein’s study helps us rethink racism and prejudice in popular culture and reconceptualize the relationships between film humor, national identity, and race.

Book Introduction To Library Research In German Studies

Download or read book Introduction To Library Research In German Studies written by Larry L. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces Germanists to the mechanics and methodology of modern library research. It explains the use of various bibliographic access systems, providing step-by-step search strategies to the most modern computerized data bases for the whole field of German studies.