Stereotypes continue to dominate contemporary Anglo-German relations. This volume brings together views from psychology, history, cultural theory, literature, pedagogy, but also business and management studies to elucidate the origins, forms, and possible strategies of dealing with clichés of 'the British' and 'the Germans'. By assessing their impact on the personal sphere and that of communication, the media, business, and politics, they demonstrate how an awareness of stereotypes can be part of a realistic assertion of identity in a changing world.

Autorentext

STEFAN BERGER Senior Lecturer in German History, School of European Studies, Cardiff University JOE BROOKER PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London KATIE GREENLAND Lecturer in Psychology, Cardiff University ALAN GROSSMAN Research Fellow, Napier University, Edinburgh DAVID HEAD Professor and Head of Modern Languages, University of Northumbria, Newcastle STEFAN HERBRECHTER Lecturer in Cultural Analysis, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds HARALD HUSEMANN Professor oEnglish Literature, University of Isnabrück, Germany MARTIN LÖSCHMANN Reader in German, Kingston University JOHN A. MORRIS Lecturer in English, Brunel University SUSAN PRICE Associate Dean, Faculty of Languages, University of the West of England, Bristol STEFAN SCHMID University of Regensburg, Germany UWE ZEMKE Senior Lecturer in German, Salford University

Inhalt

Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Contemporary Anglo-German Relations; R.Emig PART I: BASICS Stereotypes in International Relations; K.Greenland Stereotypes and Projective Mechanisms: Forging Links between Psyche and Culture; A.Grossman PART II: POPULAR EXPRESSIONS Stereotypes, Language and the Media: Plus ça change ?; J.A.Morris We Will Fight Them on the Beaches; H.Husemann Jürgen Klinsmann, EURO 96 and Their Impact on British Perceptions of Germany and the Germans; D.Head PART III: TEACHING AND (UN-)LEARNING STEREOTYPES With Literary Texts against Stereotypes: Stereotypes in Language Teaching; M.Löschmann Developing a Culture Assimilator: Culture Training for German Exchange Students; S.Schmid PART IV: STEREOTYPES IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS A View from a Bridge: Stereotypes of the German in Business and Higher Education; S.Price 'All Germans Work Hard': Myth or Reality? The Experience of British Students on Industrial Placements in Germany; U.Zemke Between Efficiency and 'Prussianism': Stereotypes and the Perception of the German Social Democrats by the British Labour Party, 1900-1920; S.Berger PART V: A PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Cosmopolitanism and (E)Urope: Translating the Other; S.Herbrechter Index