Représentations de la société allemande du début des années 1990 dans les chroniques du quotidien et de l'air du temps de la presse magazine (E. Heidenreich, E. Hammerl, P. Almqvist, M. Goldt)

摘要

Since the 1980ies the genre of the Kolumne (column) took its rise in the German press. In this thesis, we studied a corpus of 418 columns published between 1989 and 1994, by authors Elke Heidenreich, Elfriede Hammerl, Paula Almqvist and Max Goldt. In spite of a large variety of forms and topics, one can identify a general thematic framework : the representation of typical phenomena of everyday life is coming along with critical observations on the zeitgeist (life styles, popular culture, manners, mentalities). Often the authors take the attitude of traditional moralists, condemning the insensitivity and the vulgarity of their contemporaries. In other texts, they appear more like authentic leftist intellectuals who are drawing our attention to the inequalities between the sexes or the harmful influence of the consumer society and the media society ...