Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany

byPaul Hockenos

November 15, 2007|
Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany by Paul Hockenos
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Throughout his controversial career in German politics, Joschka Fischer gained a reputation as a shrewd and visionary politician. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to become Germany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq--"Excuse me, I am not convinced"--won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's contempt. Here is both a lively biography of Joschka Fischer and a gripping history 'from below' of postwar Germany. Paul Hockenos begins in the ruins of postwar Germany and guides us through the flashpoints of the late sixties and seventies, from the student protests and the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof group to the evolution of Europe's premier Green party, and brings us up to the present in the united Germany. He shows how the grassroots movements that became the German Greens challenged and changed the republic's status quo, making postwar Germany more democratic, liberal and worldly along the way. Despite the ideological twists and turns of Fischer and his peers, the lessons of the Holocaust and the Nazi terror remained their constant coordinates. Hockenos traces that political journey, providing readers with a unique insight into the impact that these movements and the Greens have had on Germany. Informed by hundreds of interviews with key figures and fellow travelers, Hockenos presents readers with one of the most intriguing personalities on the European scene, and paints a rich picture of the rebellious generation of 1968 that evolved into the political elite of modern Germany.
Paul Hockenos is an American Berlin-based author and political analyst who has written about Europe since 1989. His articles and commentaries have appeared in dozens of periodicals in Europe and North America. Hockenos is also the author of Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Homeland Calling: Exile...
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Title:Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany
Format:Hardcover
Product dimensions:256 pages, 6.18 X 9.29 X 1.5 in
Shipping dimensions:256 pages, 6.18 X 9.29 X 1.5 in
Published:November 15, 2007
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780195181838

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