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Martin Luther in Primetime: Television Fiction and Cultural Memory Construction in Cold War Germany

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dc.creatorAnderson, Stewart
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T10:06:33Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T10:06:33Z
dc.date.issued2013-06-30
dc.description.abstractIn 1983, both East and West Germany celebrated Martin Luther’s 500th birthday with great fanfare. Nowhere was this competition more provocative and visually arresting, however, than in two multi-part television plays which depicted Luther’s life: the West German Martin Luther, broadcast by the public station ZDF in April, and the East German title of the same name, aired in October. In this essay, I argue that the East German version constituted an appropriative strategy of memory formation – one that depicted Luther’s positive qualities and grafted them into the Marxist canon of heroes. In contrast, the ZDF Martin Luther, which featured a highly rational Luther, projected what Jan Assmann has termed a normative strategy of harnessing Luther’s memory, focusing on Luther’s intellectual arguments and anti-radicalism.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2013.jethc028
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14066
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15027
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectDFFen
dc.subjectCold Waren
dc.subjectZDFen
dc.subjectCollective Memoryen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMartin Luther
dc.titleMartin Luther in Primetime: Television Fiction and Cultural Memory Construction in Cold War Germanyen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:03:44
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2013.jethc028
local.source.epage26
local.source.issue3
local.source.spage22
local.source.volume2
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118575449
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9554

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