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1949, ein deutsches Schickalsjahr: Entnazifizierung, Wiederaufbau, Staatsgr ndung, Demokratisierung "Christian Bommarius ist ein gro artiger Erzh̃ler, er macht die Nachkriegsgeschichte so lebendig, dass man erschrickt. Man erschrickt deshalb, weil unsere Gesellschaft so viel ht̃te lernen kn̲nen, aber so wenig gelernt hat." Heribert Prantl, Kolumnist und Autor der S ddeutschen Zeitung 1949 ist das Jahr der doppelten Staatsgr ndung und des Beginns der zweiten Demokratie auf deutschem Boden. Die ersten Bundestagswahlen bringen Konrad Adenauer ins Kanzleramt, Theodor Heuss wird Bundesprs̃ident, Bonn Hauptstadt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In der DDR wird Wilhelm Pieck Prs̃ident, Ministerprs̃ident Otto Grotewohl. Christian Bommarius erzh̃lt so kundig wie kurzweilig die Geschichte des langen Jahres 1949. Dieses setzt bereits 1948 ein, als mit Wh̃rungsreform - die sich 2023 zum 75. Mal jh̃rt - und Auftrag zur Verfassungs-Bildung die Weichen in Richtung Bundesrepublik gestellt wurden. Und 1948 blockiert auch die Sowjetunion den Zugang zu West-Berlin, eine Blockade, die fast ein Jahr andauert, die abgeschnittene Stadt kann nur durch die Luftbr cke der Alliierten mit dem Lebensnotwendigen versorgt werden. Bommarius schildert zentrale und marginale Episoden aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Alltagsleben. Sein Sachbuch ist ein buntes Panoptikum der fr hen Bundesrepublik Deutschland - und birgt eine hc̲hst aktuelle Botschaft: Demokratisches Denken und Handeln muss immer wieder gegen Widerstñde gelebt werden, damals wie heute. "Christian Bommarius' gro es Panorama der Nachkriegsjahre verstr̲t und ist zugleich ein stilistischer Genuss, von dem man nicht mehr loskommt. Nie ist so klug, komisch und kompromisslos ber diese Zeit geschrieben worden." Karina Urbach, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The idea of the book is less to describe the "big events" than to give us the context in which they were happening, to tell us what Germany was like and how Germans were thinking and acting, month by month, as their country went through the metamorphosis from four occupied zones (and four sectors of Berlin) to two republics. Both still occupied by foreign troops, but at least on their way to becoming something like independent states.
Bommarius does this with a mixture of news stories, private diaries, and summaries of important films, novels, essays and so on. In particular, he wants his readers to see that there was never any kind of magic transition from defeated Nazi dictatorship to modern liberal democracy, and indeed that from the point of view of 1948-1949, there was little reason to suppose that Germans were ready for democracy or would know what to do with it if they saw it. Denazification was an impossible dream: society was too dependent on people in professions where adherence to Nazi policies had been essential for survival (judges, teachers, police, etc.), most young people had been through the Nazi school system, and the few people who had actively resisted or gone into exile found that they had a hard time reintegrating (many, like Thomas Mann, didn't even want to return).
Right-wing parties were on the rise, exploiting resentment against refugees and against the occupying powers, the powers themselves were more focussed on the US/Soviet conflict than on Germany (except as a military base) and if there was a miracle it was that the Bonn constitutional commission came up with something that turned out to be workable, robust and even more-or-less democratic. Bommarius suggests that this came from the lucky accident that the job of drawing up a constitution was given to a group of very unrepresentative experts, who included several key provisions that most Germans of the time would have considered unnecessary and excessive, like the abolition of the death penalty and the guarantee of equal rights for women and men. Adenauer's reputation these days isn't what it used to be, but Bommarius obviously has a lot of respect for his role in chairing the commission. Elisabeth Selbert, who lobbied for the women's rights clause, is clearly also one of his heroes.
A very interesting way of looking closely at a particular moment in history. Obviously also meant as a polemical book, to give 21st century Germans a wake-up call and remind them why it matters that they have a liberal democracy based on core principles like respect for human dignity, and why they shouldn't fall for the rhetoric of the new generation of right-wing politicians. ( )