Workshop at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Tuesday,
April 10, 2001, 5 p.m.
DIRK MOSES (University of Sydney, Australia):
"The Forty-Fivers: The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of
West Germany"
Commentary:
RAIMUND LAMMERSDORF (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Since January this year, Germans have been debating the legacy of the 68'
generation for their postwar democracy in the context of the controversy
surrounding Joschka Fischer's "Sponti" youth. The perennial "Generationsfrage"
has raised its head, and the usual Cold War battle lines of interpretation
are evident in the journals and feuillitons. In this talk, Dirk Moses will
focus on the teachers of the '68ers, the generation born in the Weimar Republic,
which he calls the '45ers. This generation comprises the Federal Republic'
s most famous and infamous intellectuals Juergen Habermas, Ernst Nolte, Guenther
Grass, Martin Walser, Kurt Sontheimer, Hermann Luebbe, Helga Grebing, and
has enjoyed a tortured relationship with the 68ers. Both generations are
somehow implicated in the country' s liberalization. But how? These and other
issues surrounding the generational tensions of postwar Germany are the subject
of this panel.
Dr. Vera Lind
Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
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