Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s "Garbage, The City, and Death". A Four Act Scandal in Post-war Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Garbage, The City, and Death. A Four Act Scandal in Post-war Germany The paper explores the dramaturgy of the scandals around the play Garbage, The City and Death (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by German playwright, theatre and film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Published in 1976, the play immediately caused a scandal in West Germany, because it was accused of reproducing anti-Semitic stereotypes. The presentation sheds light on the different phases of the scandal and their historical and cultural contexts in post-war Germany – starting as a literary scandal in 1976, being transformed into a theatre scandal in the 1980ies and finally being dissolved by the German premiere in 2009. The paper is structured as follows: Act One: The Literary Scandal. Destroying Fassbinder’s Garbage, Act Two: Preventing the Staging of the Play, Act Three: Blocking the Opening Night, Act Four: Performing the Play in Germany. By analysing the dramaturgical structure of this specific scandal, the paper discusses the following hypotheses: 1. Scandals arise through the circulation of decontextualised information in public. This is due to either a lack of information about the actual object or incident being scandalised or a lack of information about the context of the object or incident. This lack is caused by the logic of the scandal itself: Because the play or the performance is prohibited, it has been withdrawn from the public, making it impossible to form a well-founded opinion on the controversy. 2. The scandal is driven forward by an emotionalising rhetoric built around the decontextualised information. 3. Once the gap of information is filled, the scandalising rhetoric turns into a rhetoric of irrelevance: Reviews of the first performance of Garbage, The City and Death in Germany considered the play hardly a matter of public concern.

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Digitalisat der Ausg. Prag, [1762]

Weather and War – Economic and social vulnerability in Switzerland at the end of the First World War

Neutral Switzerland – not embedded in the fighting forces – yet was involved in the Great War mainly in economical terms. Since Switzerland is a landlocked country especially agriculture became an important topic of war economy in regard to food security. Until 1916 national food supply was limited but could be maintained through barter trade. In 1916 a crisis on both supply and production level occurred and led to a decline in food availability and to immense price risings causing social turmoil. This paper aims to outline the factors of vulnerability in respect of food in Switzerland during the First World War and further it will show different coping strategies that were undertaken during that time. The paper takes the work of Mario Aeby and Christian Pfister (University of Bern) into consideration that pointed out to weather anomalies during the years 1916 and 1917 aggravating the already tense food situation. Arguing for an overlap of supply and production crisis the paper focuses on agricultural and economic history including environmental impacts. Further the paper addresses the question of what makes a food system resilient to such unforeseen impacts.

Der shṿartser bukh : di oyṭorizirṭe Idishe iberzetsung fun "The Jews in the Eastern war zone" (Di idn in di milḥome-gegenden fun Mizreḥ-Eyropa)

fun Ṿilyam Poyzniaḳ. Miṭ der erloybnis fun der "Ameriḳan Dʹzshuʾish Ḳomiṭe"

Bekanntmachung: Nachdem in der am dritten Pfingstfeiertage d. J. zu Gotha stattgehabten Versammlung thüringischer Innungsmeister unter Anderen [sic!] auch mit Einstimmigkeit festgesetzt worden war ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Rechenschaftslegung der vom thüringischen Handwerker-Verein zur Frankfurter Nationalversammlung entsandten Deputation: "... [es] gereicht ... uns zur ganz besonderen Freude, den ... Handwerksmeistern ... bekannt machen zu können, daß unsere Anträge auf die ... wohlwollendste Weise aufgenommen [wurden] ..." "Gleich wichtig und erfreulich ist aber der Umstand ... daß in Deutschland keine unbedingte Gewerbfreiheit stattfinden ... soll ..."

Die Burg oder die Ereignisse in der Nacht vom 15. auf den 16. Mai 1848: Montag der 15. Mai war viel heißer in jeder Beziehung als der 15. März ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Schilderung der Geschehnisse in Wien am 15. Mai 1848 anläßlich der Bewilligung der Forderungen der sogenannten Sturmpetition: Zurücknahme des Tagesbefehls der Nationalgarde vom 13. Mai 1848 (das Verbot der Mitgliedschaft im revolutionären Wiener Zentralkomitee betreffend), Änderung des Wahlgesetzes (Aufhebung der Beschränkungen des allgemeinen Wahlrechts), Einführung des Einkammersystems (Verzicht auf den Senat), gemeinschaftliche Besetzung der strategisch wichtigen Punkte Wiens durch Nationalgarde und Militär. Von einem Mitglied der Akademischen Legion