On and around November 10th 1859, hundreds of german-speaking middle-european cities and towns, German exiles and migrants in the United States of America and all over the world, organized partly extensive public celebrations in honor of the German poet Friedrich Schiller. Contemporary witnesses have described the Schiller Centenary as a national festival and it greatly contributed to Friedrich Schiller's status as a national bard and a place of remembrance in Germany. The book discusses the role of the media within the national festival as a major agent in the German nation building process prior to the founding of the Kaiserreich in 1870/71. Depending on the celebrants as communicative producers, the nation herein appears as a media-aided, communicative construction through which the revelers celebrated - and thereby fabricated - the poet Schiller as a national bard and at the same time and most of all miscellaneous valid and locally bound concepts of the German nation.
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1;Title Page;3 2;Copyright;4 3;Table of Contents;5 4;Body;7 5;Vorwort;7 6;Einleitung;9 7;I. Schiller feiern in Mitteleuropa;39 7.1;Berlin;39 7.2;Wien;84 7.3;Hamburg;112 7.4;Stuttgart;157 7.5;München;175 7.6;Schiller feiern in Mitteleuropa Zusammenfassung;184 8;II. Schiller feiern im europäischen Ausland;189 8.1;London;191 8.2;Paris;203 8.3;Schiller feiern im europäischen Ausland Zusammenfassung;218 9;III. Schiller feiern in Nordamerika;221 9.1;Philadelphia;230 9.2;New York;256 9.3;Pittsburgh;292 9.4;Cincinnati;313 9.5;St. Louis;339 9.6;Milwaukee;360 9.7;Schiller feiern in Nordamerika Zusammenfassung;376 10;IV. Zur medialen Konstruktion des Nationalen;391 11;Quellen-, Literatur-, Abbildungs- und Abkürzungsverzeichnis;409 11.1;Ungedruckte Quellen;409 11.2;Zeitungen, Zeitschriften;409 11.3;Gedruckte Quellen;411 11.4;Sekundärliteratur;414 11.5;Abbildungsverzeichnis;427 11.6;Abkürzungsverzeichnis;427 12;Personenregister;429 13;Zeitungsregister;437
