LEADER 04125nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910781652103321 005 20230126202506.0 010 $a0-674-06095-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674060951 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048079 035 $a(OCoLC)754819993 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496854 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357124 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523992 035 $a(PQKB)10445802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300978 035 $a(DE-B1597)178227 035 $a(OCoLC)1024021807 035 $a(OCoLC)1029836802 035 $a(OCoLC)1032695397 035 $a(OCoLC)1037969934 035 $a(OCoLC)1041187499 035 $a(OCoLC)979626928 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060951 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300978 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496854 035 $a(OCoLC)923117556 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048079 100 $a20100927d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe turbulent world of Franz Go?ll$b[electronic resource] $ean ordinary Berliner writes the twentieth century /$fPeter Fritzsche 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05531-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe case of Franz Go?ll, graphomaniac -- Franz's multiple selves -- Physical intimacies -- The amateur scientist -- Franz Go?ll writes German history -- Resolution without redemption. 330 $aFranz 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. 606 $aMen$zGermany$zBerlin$vBiography 606 $aGerman diaries$zGermany$zBerlin$xHistory and criticism 607 $aBerlin (Germany)$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y20th century$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aGermany$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aBerlin (Germany)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMen 615 0$aGerman diaries$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a943/.155087092 676 $aB 700 $aFritzsche$b Peter$f1959-$01098532 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781652103321 996 $aThe turbulent world of Franz Go?ll$93846261 997 $aUNINA