Voices in Ruins German Radio and National Reconstruction in the Wake of Total War

by Badenoch, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780230009035
• ISBN10: 0230009034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In the defeat and occupation of Germany that followed the Second World War, the radio remained a vital part of everyday life for most Germans. Voices in Ruins explores in detail the continuities and discontinuities of everyday broadcasting practice at the occupied radio stations. It shows the multiple ways in which the radio stations, in interaction with their listeners, helped to fundamentally shape visions of what would become the Federal Republic, as well as memories of a German past.

Author Biography

ALEXANDER BADENDOCH is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Eindhoven.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction and Contexts	p. 1
Echoes of Days: Finding Everyday Between Exception and Routine	p. 34
Familiar Voices: Representations of Personalities and Pasts	p. 79
Time Consuming: Addressing a Nation of Women	p. 123
Re-placing the Nation: Between Home Service and Heimat	p. 162
Conclusion: Voices in Ruins? Radio and Normalization After 1945	p. 219
Notes	p. 234
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 281
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