04158nam 2200745 a 450 991045778370332120200520144314.00-674-06095-410.4159/harvard.9780674060951(CKB)2550000000048079(OCoLC)754819993(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496854(SSID)ssj0000542142(PQKBManifestationID)11357124(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542142(PQKBWorkID)10523992(PQKB)10445802(MiAaPQ)EBC3300978(DE-B1597)178227(OCoLC)1024021807(OCoLC)1029836802(OCoLC)1032695397(OCoLC)1037969934(OCoLC)1041187499(OCoLC)979626928(DE-B1597)9780674060951(Au-PeEL)EBL3300978(CaPaEBR)ebr10496854(OCoLC)923117556(EXLCZ)99255000000004807920100927d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe turbulent world of Franz Göll[electronic resource] an ordinary Berliner writes the twentieth century /Peter FritzscheCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20111 online resource (289 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-05531-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The case of Franz Göll, graphomaniac -- Franz's multiple selves -- Physical intimacies -- The amateur scientist -- Franz Göll writes German history -- Resolution without redemption.Franz Göll was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his entire life in a two-room apartment in Rote Insel, Berlin's famous working-class district. What makes Franz Göll different is that he left behind one of the most comprehensive diaries available from the maelstrom of twentieth-century German life. Deftly weaving in Göll's voice from his diary entries, Fritzsche narrates the quest of an ordinary citizen to make sense of a violent and bewildering century.Peter Fritzsche paints a deeply affecting portrait of a self-educated man seized by an untamable impulse to record, who stayed put for nearly seventy years as history thundered around him. Determined to compose a "symphony" from the music of everyday life, Göll wrote of hungry winters during World War I, the bombing of Berlin, the rape of his neighbors by Russian soldiers in World War II, and the flexing of U.S. superpower during the Reagan years. In his early entries, Göll grappled with the intellectual shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, and later he struggled to engage with the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to a fluid, dynamic, unmistakably modern society.With expert analysis, Fritzsche shows how one man's thoughts and desires can give poignant shape to the collective experience of twentieth-century life, registering its manifold shocks and rendering them legible.MenGermanyBerlinBiographyGerman diariesGermanyBerlinHistory and criticismBerlin (Germany)BiographyGermanyHistory20th centuryBiographyGermanySocial conditions20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government20th centuryGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryBerlin (Germany)History20th centuryElectronic books.MenGerman diariesHistory and criticism.943/.155087092BFritzsche Peter1959-909478MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457783703321The turbulent world of Franz Göll2444139UNINA