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Changes of the Cultural Diplomacy of the Federal Republic of Germany during the Willy Brandt Era

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2014

Abstract

The cultural diplomacy of the Federal Republic of Germany underwent a period of fundamental changes during the 1960s and 1970s. This article analyzes who the initiators of these changes were - both institutional and individual.

The emphasis on players is supported by a short group biography of respective politicians and public servants. The research uses the methods of political history and political biography.

Its vital part is a detailed analysis of archival sources and edited documents. What is even more, this study also revises the prevailing periodization of the history of German cultural diplomacy.