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‘FromLovetoHate’:
AStoryofGermaniaandSam–
AnnotationstotheHistory
ofAmerican-GermanRelations
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Alltheworld’sastage,
Andallthemenandwomenmerelyplayers:
Theyhavetheirexitsandtheirentrances.
AsYouLikeIt,ActII,SceneVII,139-1411
Introduction
Thisessayisanintellectuallanguagegameinspiredbyliteratureor,
aswecouldassert,anarrativehistorytoldinimagesbythatmost
famousofEnglishpoets,WilliamShakespeare.Throughtheeyes
ofhisliterature,wewillreconsiderandpresentspecifictendencies
andrelationshipsininternationalaffairsbetweenstates,nations,and
continents.ThisweundertakeintermsofAntoniSobanski’s(2007:
43)words:“It’snotimportant,what’sreallyhappening,butwhathas
caughttheimaginationofthepeople”.Mostoftentheseimaginations
havebecomemoreorlesspartofWestern4culturalhistoricalmemory’
(Assmann2002).Friendlyorstrainedrelationsbetweenstatesare
theoutcomesofactions,deeds,words,commoninterests,andshared
values,butarealsoshapedbyimaginationsandstereotypesthatthem-
selvesarebiasedbyone’sownculturalbackgroundashasbeenshown
otherwiseinpostcolonialstudies.
1Shakespeare2011a.
