"As crises unfold, the narratives chronicled by journalists, economists, and historians produce stories that serve not only to recount events, but also to prescribe preventative measures. Combining multiple narratives of economic crisis in Germany over the past 200 years, Invested Narratives situates interdisciplinary examinations of how German society grappled with establishing structures and strategies for state involvement in the industrial and commercial markets. This volume allows for a widened understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union while critically engaging both early and more recent theoretical, empirical, and analytical approaches to economic crisis and Ordnung narratives generated from sources such as the German government, the financial sector and fictional representations"--
As crises unfold, the narratives chronicled by journalists, economists, and historians produce stories that serve not only to recount events, but also to prescribe preventative measures. Combining multiple narratives of economic crisis in Germany over the past 200 years, Invested Narratives situates interdisciplinary examinations of how German society grappled with establishing structures and strategies for state involvement in the industrial and commercial markets. This volume allows for a widened understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union while critically engaging both early and more recent theoretical, empirical, and analytical approaches to economic crisis and Ordnung narratives generated from sources such as the German government, the financial sector and fictional representations.
Introduction: Narrating Economics as Crisis
Jill E. Twark
Part I: Shaping Economic Knowledge from Historical Perspectives
Chapter
1. German Finanzkapitalismus: A Narrative of Deutsche Bank and its
Role in the German Financial System
Reinhard H Schmidt
Chapter
2. Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for
Building Community in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel
Johannes Brambora
Chapter
3. Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great
Depression in Weimar Germany
Roman Köster
Chapter
4. The Moral Equation Works Out Differently: The Great Depression,
the Crisis of Knowledge, and Value Order in Erich Kästners Fabian: The Story
of a Moralist
Simela Delianidou
Part II: German Narratives of Work and Unemployment
Chapter
5. Unemployment as Crisis: Past and Present German-Language
Sociological Narratives on the Loss of Work
Annemarie Matthies
Chapter
6. Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic
Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty
Jill E. Twark
Chapter
7. John von Düffels Ego (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the
Neoliberal Crisis of the Self
Johanna Tönsing
Part III: German Exceptionalism in Contemporary European Crisis
Situations
Chapter
8. Germanys Compromises: The Impact of Crisis Narratives on the
European Central Bank and Euro Governance
Sara Konoe
Chapter
9. Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with
Neoliberal Reforms
Paulette Kurzer and Alice H. Cooper
Part IV: The Tricky Question of Cause and Effect
Chapter
10. Literature against the Profit-Friendly Ideological Defense
System:Entertainment and Sociopolitical Enlightenment in Uwe Timms
Headhunter
Monika Albrecht
Chapter
11. An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis
of Representation and Jonas Lüschers Barbarian Spring
Joel Kaipainen
Jill E. Twark is Associate Professor of German at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature and culture. Along with her monograph, Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German Literature in the 1990s (De Gruyter 2007), she has edited books on post-unification German humor and social-justice dilemmas.
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