Activitatea cultural-artistică de masă a minorităţii germane în timpul comunismului
The mass-culture of the german minority during communism time

Summary/Abstract: The paper is aiming at identifying the main aspects concerning the evolution of the so called mass culture from the late forties to 1989 practiced by the German minority. The communist regime insisted very much on the rising of the cultural level of the population through conferences, lectures but also through amateurs’ art forms like chorus, music bands and dance groups. After WWII the Germans had to pass a very difficult time but the first democratic Constitution from 1948 improved it to certain degree. The author identifies 4 different stages in the evolution of cultural activities due to the degree the political factor was implicated in culture. According to this criterion the late fifties and the years from 1968 to 1972 were the most fruitful for the Germans to develop the unmistakably culture of their own. The quite high migration rate from the eighties and the exodus which characterized the aftermath of the Revolution from 1989 made it impossible for those who did not leave Romania to continue their cultural life in a traditional way.

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