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(Munich: Hanser, 1997).
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41. Bullivant, Future , p. 167.
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44. For the Fassbinder “legends” following his death at 37, see David Barnett, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 1ff.
45. Bullivant, Future , p. 218.
46. Kolinsky and van der Will, eds., Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture , p. 223.
47. Susan Manning, Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1993).
48. Theater heute , December 1989, p. 6.
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50. Ibid., p. 312.
51. Burns, ed., German Cultural Studies , p. 317.
52. Ian Buruma, “Herzog and His Heroes,” New York Review of Books , July 19, 2007, pp. 24–26.
53. Alexander Graf, The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway (London: Wallflower Press, 2002), pp. 48–54.
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55. Ibid., p. 233.
56. Ross, The Rest Is Noise , p. 10.
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60. Hans Werner Henze, Music and Politics: Collected Writings, 1953–1981 , trans. Peter Labany (London: Faber, 1982), p. 196 for “The task of revolutionary music.”
61. Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography , trans. Richard Toop (London: Faber, 1992), pp. 110ff.
62. Ibid., pp. 210ff.
63. Werner Haftmann, Wols Aufzeichungen: Aquarelle, Aphorismen, Zeichnungen (Cologne: M. Du Mont Schauberg, 1963), pp. 10 and 32, for a note by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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66. For a discussion of Beuys’s materials, see Richard Demarco, “Three Pots for the Poorhouse,” in Joseph Beuys: The Revolution Is Us , catalog for an exhibition in Liverpool, 1993–1994, published by the trustees of the collection of the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1993.
67. Götz Adriani, Winfried Konnertz, and Karin Thomas, Joseph Beuys (Cologne: Dumont Buchverlag, 1994). Definitive photographs.
68. Günther Gereken, “Holz-(schnitt)-wege,” in Anselm Kiefer , exhibition at the Groningen Museum, Groningen, 1980–1981.
69. A. R. Penck, “Auf Penck zurückblickend (1978),” in A. R. Penck—Y. Zeichnungen bis 1975 , exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, Basel, 1978.
70. Rainer Fetting, Holzbilder (wood paintings), exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1984.
71. Kolinsky and van der Will, eds., Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture , p. 280.
72. Crawshaw, Easier Fatherland , p. 92.
73. Personal interview, Wolf-Hagen Krauth, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, April 9, 2008.
74. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Third Reich. http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg. de/KWG/projects_e.htm
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76. Christine Hoh-Slodczyk, et al., Hans Scharoun: Architekt in Deutschland, 1893–1972 (Munich: Beck, 1992), pp. 98–101.
77. J. Christoph Bürkle, Hans Scharoun und die Moderne: Ideen, Projekte, Theaterbau (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1986), for photographs and plans.
78. Crawshaw, Easier Fatherland , p. 115.
79. Dietrich Schwanitz, Bildung: Alles, was man wissen muss (Munich: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 2002).
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