Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction and Contexts Echoes of Days: Finding Everyday Between Exception and Routine Familiar Voices: Representations of Personalities and Pasts Time Consuming: Addressing a Nation of Women Re-placing a Nation: Between Home Service and Heimat Conclusion: Voices in Ruins? Radio and Normalization in Post-war Germany
Synopsis
Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic.