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 * TRADITIONAL GERMAN CULTURE**

Students will create a video using photographs to depict traditional German culture.

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Wikipedia article Culture of Germany

The concept of Culture can be defined in many aspects like history and literature, art galleries and museums, food or music and education. The way they eat, speak, spend free time, work, dress, learn and express emotions. Culture is the patterns of behavior and ways of thinking that people living in a particular social group learn and create. German Culture

Here is a rich collection of peculiar German customs and traditions. Read about German wedding traditions, yodeling, ceramics traditions, and more. German Traditions

Culture is the way a region of people relate to each other and others. The way they eat, speak, spend free time, work, dress, learn and express emotions. Culture is the patterns of behavior and ways of thinking that people living in a particular social group learn and create. //.// A definition of culture

Uta G. Poiger attempts to trace the developments of Post-WWII popular culture in East and West Germany. Poiger’s cultural scholarship focuses on interpretations of Hollywood movies, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll, and the class, gender, and racial anxieties that American cultural imports evoked. Poiger asserts that Stalinist East Germans and conservative West Germans reacted similarly to American Culture. Post WWII German Culture Essays

The presence of US occupation forces in western Germany after World War Two was a culture shock for Germans. The American occupation brought freedom of the press and a democratic constitution,it also introduced swing music,chewing gum,Wild West romanticism and CARE packages. But while the post-war German population may have loved the American way of life,many disapproved of the superpower's foreign policy. During the student revolts of the 1960s,rearmament of Europe in the 1980s,or the Iraq War in 2003,the US was always the main target of protests. Kurt Biedenkopf,a former premier of the state of Saxony,was one of the first German exchange students to go to the US in the late 1940s. John Kornblum,a former US ambassador to Germany,was able to help shape German-American relations. Our report talks with both about their impressions. media type="youtube" key="Y2MxV3Qy1T8" height="385" width="640" Günter Grass, born in 1927, is a German poet, novelist, playwright, sculptor, and printmaker, who, with his extraordinary first novel die BLECHTROMMEL (1959, The Tin Drum) became the literary spokesman for the German generation that grew up in the Nazi era. Günter Grass

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) - German writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. Heinrich Böll portrayed Germany after World War II with a deep moral vision and attacked the materialistic values of the post-war society Heinrich Böll

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The Berlin Wall