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During the 1930s through the 1940s and into the 1950s, Spanish and German presentations in opposition to ardent nationalism share strikingly common aesthetic and ideological strategies supporting claims to a transnational, international space. Specific examples of common geography, identity and language in German and Spanish presentations (theater, short stories, reports, essays, speeches and poetry) in Spain and Latin America by German (Regler, Renn, Uhse), Spanish (J. Bergamin, R. Alberti, M. Aub) and Latin American (D. Rivera, P. Neruda, C. Vallejo) intellectuals, artists and activists during the 1930s through the 1950s will be explored. For example, German-speaking audiences and artists in Spain and Mexico shared a common lived and aesthetic space as Spanish-speaking audiences and artists. Further, many German presentations were translated into Spanish and visa versa. Here, presentations in “Das Wort” and “El Mono Azul” in Spain as well as “Freies Deutschland/Alemania libre” in Mexico will be referenced in developing a sense of re-definition of the concept of ‘foreign’ and ‘commonness’ beyond simply nationality (tradition, history and geography) and language. The impetus for an alternative, international and even revolutionary ‘space’ (as defined by Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space) was produced in and through common Spanish and German strategies and realizations in their presentations. This Spanish-German example from the early/mid-part of the 20th century is a significant contribution to contemporary interdisciplinary discussions in the 21st century.
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass Botschaften als Repräsentanten ihrer jeweiligen Länder nicht nur politische sondern auch handfeste ökonomische Interessen vertreten. Die US-Entertainment-Industrie zeichnete sich hierbei in der Vergangenheit durch besondere Aktivität auf internationaler Ebene aus (es sei hier nur auf ACTA verwiesen). WikiLeaks macht es nun möglich, den Umfang dieser Lobbyarbeit nachzuvollziehen.In Spanien wurde Ende 2011 nach langem Kampf ein Gesetz verabschiedet, dass es ermöglicht Seiten, auf denen Filme, Musik o.Ä. zum Download angeboten werden, zu sperren. Dieses Gesetz kam überhaupt nur zu Stande durch eine Kombination geschickter Lobbyarbeit der Entertainment-Industrie in Spanien und tatkräftiger Beihilfe durch die USA, vor allem koordiniert über die amerikanische Botschaft in Madrid. Ars Technica bietet dazu bereits einen hervorragenden Überblick...