Wallace Bratt

Peter Hahne's Schluss mit lustig: Das Ende der Spassgesellschaft (Stop the Merriment: The End of the Fun Society, Johannis Verlag, 2004) is, at least for Americans concerned with the German cultural and religious scene, a curious, telling little volume. The appearance of yet another critical commentary on a contemporary Western society is not in itself surprising, though Hahne writes in an unusually sharp, sometimes harsh tone. That this analysis is done by a prominent television news analyst might also be…