Beyond Enemy Lines: Literature and Film in the British and American Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Project Information

BEYONDENEMYLINES

Grant agreement ID: 335101

Project closed

Start date 1 September 2013

End date 28 February 2019

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 1 414 601,00

EU contribution € 1 414 601,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

Objective

This project investigates the cross-fertilisation of Anglo/American and German literature and film during the Allied Occupation of Germany. It will be the first study to survey the cultural landscape of the British and American zones of Occupied Germany in any detail. By doing so it will offer a new interpretative framework for postwar culture, in particular in three areas: the history of the Allied Occupation of Germany; the history of postwar Anglophone and Germanophone literature (arguing the two were more intertwined than has previously been suggested); and the history of the relationship between postwar and Cold War. Combining Anglo-American and German literature and film history with critical analysis, cultural history and life-writing, this is a necessarily ambitious, multidisciplinary study which will open up a major new field of research.

Fields of science

• humanities › history and archaeology › history › contemporary history

Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-SG-SH5 - ERC Starting Grant - Cultures and cultural production

Call for proposal

ERC-2013-StG
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Funding Scheme

ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant

Host institution

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

• EU contribution: € 1 414 601,00
• Address: STRAND ; WC2R 2LS London ; United Kingdom
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Lara Feigel (Dr.)
• Administrative Contact: Paul Labbett (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 1 414 601,00
• Address: STRAND ; WC2R 2LS London
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Principal investigator: Lara Feigel (Dr.)
• Administrative Contact: Paul Labbett (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data