Stereotypes in Contemporary Anglo-German Relations

211 Pages·2000·18 MB·English

by  Rainer Emig (eds.)

Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society
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state visit to Britain by the late President Heinemann, and incorporated by Royal
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1979 both governments have been contributing.
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CITIES IN TRANSITION
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ADVERSITY AND CHALLENGE IN LIFE IN THE NEW GERMANY AND
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Maurie J. Cohen (editor)
RISK IN THE MODERN AGE
Social Theory, Science and Environmental Decision-Making
Dagmar Ebster-Grosz and Derek Pugh (editors)
ANGLO-GERMAN BUSINESS COLLABORATION
Pitfalls and Potentials
Rainer Emig (editor)
STEREOTYPES IN CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS
Karen Evans, Martina Behrens and Jens Kaluza
LEARNING AND WORK IN THE RISK SOCIETY
Lessons for the Labour Markets of Europe from Eastern Germany
Stephen Frowen and Jens Holscher (editors)
THE GERMAN CURRENCY UNION OF 1990
A Critical Assessment
Eva Kolinsky (editor)
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE FAMILY IN
POST-COMMUNIST GERMANY
Howard Williams, Colin Wight and Norbert Kapferer (editors)
POLITICAL THOUGHT AND GERMAN REUNIFICATION
The New German Ideology?
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Stereotypes in
Cont emporary
Anglo-German Relations
Edited by
Rainer Emig
Professor of British Literature
Regemburg University
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Stereotypes in contemporary Anglo-German relations I edited by Rainer Emig.
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1. Great Britain-Foreign relations-Gennany. 2. Great Britain-Foreign
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-Foreign relations-1990-5. Stereotype (Psychology) I. Emig. Rainer. 1964-
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Contents
Notes on the contributors vii
Introduction: contemporary Anglo-German relations 1
Rainer Emig
PART 1 Basics
1 Stereotypes in international relations 15
Katy Greenland
2 Stereotypes and projective mechanisms: forging links
between psyche and culture 31
Alan Grossman
PART 2 Popular expressions
3 Stereotypes, language and the media: plus (:a change? 47
John A. Morris
4 We will fight them on the beaches 58
Harald Husemann
5 Stereotypes and national identity in Euro 96 79
Joe Brooker
6 ]i.irgen Klinsmann, EURO 96 and their impact on British
perceptions of Germany and the Germans 95
David Head
PART 3 Teaching and (un-)learning stereotypes
7 With literary texts against stereotypes: stereotypes in
language teaching 123
Martin Loschmann
8 Developing a culture assimilator: culture training for
German exchange students 137
Stefan Schmid
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vi Contents
PART 4 Stereotypes in business and politics
9 A view from a bridge: stereotypes of the German in
business and higher education 155
Susan Price
10 'All Germans work hard' - myth or reality? The experience
of British students on industrial placements in Germany 163
Uwe Zemke
11 Between efficiency and 'Prussianism': stereotypes and
the perception of the German Social Democrats by the
British Labour Party, 1900-1920 172
Stefan Berger
PART 5 A philosophical perspective
12 Cosmopolitanism and (E)Urope: translating the other 187
Stefan Herbrechter
Index 202
Notes on the contributors
Stefan Berger is Senior Lecturer in German History in the School of
European Studies at Cardiff University. He is working in the areas of
comparative labour history, nationalism, and historiography. Among
his most recent publications are Writing National Histories: Western
Europe since 1800, Nationalism, Labour and Ethnicity, and Social
Democracy and the Working Class in Germany in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries.
Joe Brooker has successfully completed a PhD James Joyce at Birkbeck
College, University of London. He has published essays on Joyce and is
interested in modernism and the relation between culture and nation.
Rainer Emig is Professor of British Literature at Regensburg University,
Germany. His publications include Modernism in Poetry (1995) and
W. H. Allden (2000). He has also edited a Macmillan New Casebook on
Ulysses and published essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century
literature and culture.
Katy Greenland is Lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University. She
specializes in research on intergroup contact, prejudice, and stereo
typing. Her recent work has examined the effects of intergroup
anxiety on contact between British and Japanese nationals, and on
teachers' attitudes towards children with HIV. She has published
several essays in this area, for example in the European Journal of
Psychology.
Alan Grossman is Research Fellow in the Departments of Design and
Photography, film and Television at Napier University, Edinburgh. His
PhD project focused on the modes of minority Welsh language
resistance against dominant English language culture. His current
research is concerned with the notions of displacement and diaspora in
culture. He has published essays in several Cultural Studies periodicals,
including Space and Culture.
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viii Notes at] the contributors
David Head is Professor and Head of Modern Languages at the
University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He is the author of 'Made in
Germany': The Corporate Identity of a Nation and co-author of the Harrap
German Business Management Directory. His main research interests are
Anglo-German perceptions and misperceptions, the impact of
Germany on Britain in the 1990s, and country-of-origin advertising in
the post-national trading environment.
Stefan Herbrechter obtained his MA in English and Romance
Philologies from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and
completed his PhD at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at
Cardiff. He is currently Lecturer in Cultural Analysis at Trinity and All
Saints University College, Leeds. He is author of Lawrence Durrell,
Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity and is engaged in research on
notions of alterity, post modernism and bilingualism, and the interface
between Literary and Cultural Studies.
Harald Husemann is Professor of English Literature and Comparative
Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabriick, Germany. His teaching
and research interests lie in the presentation of Germany and the
Germans in the British media. His publications include Coping with
the Relations, A Common Calise - Ollr Environment, Blairing Britain towards
Europe, and essays on Anglo-German perceptions and misperceptions,
especially in the media and in political cartoons.
Martin Loschmann is Reader in German at Kingston University. His
research focuses on teaching and learning German as a foreign lan
guage, intercultural communication, and stereotypes in foreign lan
guage teaching. His publications include Efflziente Wortschatzarbeit,
Einander verstehen: Ein delltsches literarisches Lesebuch (with Marianne
Loschmann), and an edited collection entitled Stereotype im
Fremdsprachemmterricht (with Magda Stroinska).
John A. Morris teaches English in the Faculty of Arts at Brunei
University, where he was formerly Director of English Studies in the
Language Centre. His main research interests concern the impact of
technology, commerce, and politicS on modern literature and culture.
His publications include Writers and Politics in Modern Britain, Exploring
Stereotyped Images, and essays on war in fiction, modern British
literature and culture, and the representation of business in English
literature.
Notes on the contributors ix
Susan Price is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Languages and
European Studies at the University of the West of England in Bristol.
Her research interests lie in the field of linguistics (theoretical and
Romance syntax) and international business. She is currently leading a
project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England:
investigating the development of cultural competence in senior
management executives in south-west England. Her publications
include Comparative Constructions in Spanish and French Syntax, Interface:
Bradford Studies in Language, Culture and Society (co-edited with
C. Murath), and essays on language and business and cross-cultural
capability in managers and students.
Stefan Schmid holds a BSc in Psychology from London Guildhall
University. He is currently completing his postgraduate degree in
psychology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, as a scholar of
the German Psychological Society. His interest include social, inter
cultural and cross-cultural psychology, questions of training, but
also Great Britain and Bohemian Studies. His thesis has been published
under the title Englander verstehen [Understanding the English].
Uwe Zemke is Senior Lecturer in German at Salford University. His
knowledge of British and European industry derives from his
experience as Placement Tutor for Modern Languages students and
from close contact with employers on the Continent and in Britain.
His research interests lie in the area of European higher education. He
has worked for the European Commission on related projects and is
currently pursuing a National Residence Abroad Project funded by the
Higher Education Funding Council for England. He has published
numerous essays on work placements, student mobility and cultural
diversity within Europe.