Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Kulturleichen
English translation:
Cultural outcasts / establishment outcasts
Added to glossary by
Helen Shiner
Dec 7, 2012 10:03
11 yrs ago
German term
Kulturleichen
German to English
Social Sciences
Poetry & Literature
Was im Spätsommer 1981 mit einer Demonstration vor Zürichs Opernhaus gegen die Förderung ausschließlich etablierter Kultur begann - „Wir sind die Kulturleichen dieser Stadt“, hieß es auf einem Transparent ....
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Dec 11, 2012 09:37: Helen Shiner Created KOG entry
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Cultural outcasts / establishment outcasts
I think I would go in this direction, particularly if funding has been lost. Though it would work either way. The corpse thing is a bit too final - not a strong position from which to negotiate, is it?!
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culture/cultural corpses
See www. below.
and Wikipedia entry for Leiche
and Wikipedia entry for Leiche
Example sentence:
http://www.vocabulix.com/translation/german-english/leiche.html
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walking dead of culture
as an alternative
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dead (end) of culture
we represent this city's...
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cultural remnants
remnants = a small surviving group of people according to
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/remnant
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/remnant
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cultural pariahs
The fundamental questions is what "Kulturleichen" is actually intended to mean. If it means something like "we are the people whose culture is completely ignored" then "cultural pariahs" could convey that.
But if we do not dare to take the musty covers off the chairs and sofas of our old palace of the Jewish spirit, if we do not venture to make use of the palace and its treasures, if old and new Jewish wisdom does not serve to answer the real problems of our modern life, we shall remain cultural pariahs, however much we boast of our previous and present intellectual and artistic achievements.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/jewish-culture-in-...
Marginalisation is described as covering a variety of groups: those in extreme poverty, even in rich countries (as with illegal immigrants), cultural pariahs (as in the case of small linguistic groups or pastoral people), large populations in continuous displacement through warfare (as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestinian territories), and the well-known state of quasi-permanent exclusion of girls and disabled children and young people around the world.
http://www.norrag.org/fr/publications/norrag-news/online-ver...
But if we do not dare to take the musty covers off the chairs and sofas of our old palace of the Jewish spirit, if we do not venture to make use of the palace and its treasures, if old and new Jewish wisdom does not serve to answer the real problems of our modern life, we shall remain cultural pariahs, however much we boast of our previous and present intellectual and artistic achievements.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/jewish-culture-in-...
Marginalisation is described as covering a variety of groups: those in extreme poverty, even in rich countries (as with illegal immigrants), cultural pariahs (as in the case of small linguistic groups or pastoral people), large populations in continuous displacement through warfare (as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestinian territories), and the well-known state of quasi-permanent exclusion of girls and disabled children and young people around the world.
http://www.norrag.org/fr/publications/norrag-news/online-ver...
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Youth Culture - The Culture this City has left behind
Suggestion. Please see my entry in the discussion field.
Discussion
noun
[mass noun]
1) the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively:
e.g. 20th century popular culture
a refined understanding or appreciation of culture:
men of culture
2) the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society:
e.g. Afro-Caribbean culture
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/culture