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Zitatbelege Und Ergänzende Hinweise Seite Detlev Mares Abkürzungen: Margaret Thatcher. Die Dramatisierung des Politischen, Gleichen/Zürich: AAPBD = Akten zur auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Muster-Schmidt Verlag 2014 (= Persönlichkeit und Geschichte, Band 171). MTFW = Website der Margaret Thatcher Foundation ISBN: 978-3-7881-0171-8 (www.margaretthatcher.org, mit sechsstelliger Dokumentennummer) Zitatbelege und ergänzende Hinweise Seite Kapitel I: Die Dramatisierung des Politischen Die Konzeption der Reihe „Persönlichkeit und Geschichte“, in der 2014 der Band „Margaret Thatcher. Die Dramatisierung des Politischen“ erschienen 8 Anwendung des Begriffs „Schauspieler“ auf Thatcher bei: John ist, sieht neben den bibliographischen Hinweisen am Ende des Buches keine Lewis Gaddis: Der Kalte Krieg. Eine neue Geschichte, München detaillierten Nachweise für die verwendete Literatur und die Zitate vor. 2007, S. 244. Doch wie jede historische Studie baut auch diese Darstellung Thatchers auf zahllosen Arbeiten auf. Diese können im Folgenden nicht in angemessener Form gewürdigt werden. Grundsätzlich wurden insbesondere die in den Kapitel II: Vom Krämerladen zum Parteivorsitz – Stationen des bibliographischen Hinweisen aufgeführten Biographien von Young, Aufstiegs Campbell, Harris und Moore in allen Kapiteln des biographischen Essays zusätzlich zu spezieller Literatur und Quellen herangezogen. 10 „Ich verdanke fast alles meinem Vater…“: „I just owe almost everything to my own father. I really do. He Die vorliegende Datei hat die Funktion, das rasche Auffinden der brought me up to believe all the things that I do believe and they’re englischsprachigen Originalzitate zu ermöglichen und Belege für alle Zitate just the values on which I’ve fought the election. And it’s sowie einige erweiternde Hinweise zu bieten (die in den bibliographischen passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a Angaben auf den Seiten 114 bis 118 des Bandes aufgeführte Literatur wird small town, in very modest home, are just the things that I believe im Folgenden mit Kurztitel zitiert). have won the election.” Remarks on becoming Prime Minister, 4. Zudem finden sich am Ende der Datei Corrigenda zum Buch – Hinweise auf Mai 1979 (MTFW 104078) Fehler, die sich eingeschlichen haben, sind willkommen. 13 „Manche Autoren vermuten…” – vgl. z. B. John Campbell, Bd. 1, S. 18 u. 31/32. 14 „Deckmantel“ – die Gegenüberstellung von Alfred Roberts und Club, Washington, 19. September 1975, hier zit. nach Moore, Bd. 1, seiner Tochter orientiert sich an John Campbell, Bd. 1, S. 29/30; S. 320. Campbell spricht auf S. 30 von „smokescreen“. Die Website der Thatcher Foundation gibt die Stelle wieder als: „life and death of our national spirit“ (MTFW 102770). 21 365 von 3600 Anträgen abgelehnt: Zahlenangaben nach Harris, S. 78. 31 „There is no such thing as society.“ Interview Women’s Own, 23. September 1987 (MTFW 106689). 31 „Persönliche Verantwortung und das Verantwortungsgefühl…”: Kapitel III: Markt, Moral und Monetarismus – das nationale „personal responsibility and the sense of responsibility to family, Regenerationsprogramm der Oppositionsführerin neighbourhood and community“: Speech to the Conservative 25 „Liegestühle auf dem Deck der Titanic“: Political Centre Summer School („The Renewal of Britain"), 6. Juli „It's been said that all that politicians are doing now is re-arranging 1979 (MTFW 104107). the deck chairs on the Titanic. Well, here is one who isn't. Help me 31 „wie viel Verantwortung jeder von uns für sich selbst und andere zu to help you.” Party Political Broadcast, 5. März 1975 (MTFW übernehmen bereit ist…”: 102644). „There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the 26 „You’ve never had it so good”: Der Wahlkampfslogan ging zurück beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend auf eine leicht abweichende Formulierung in einer Rede, die upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for Premierminister Harold Macmillan am 20. Juli 1957 in Bedford ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our gehalten hatte. own efforts those who are unfortunate.“ Interview Women’s Own, 23. September 1987 (MTFW 106689). 27 Scheitern der eingeschlagenen Politik, nicht deren Existenz an sich: So die Analyse bei Moore, Bd. 1, S. 170. 33 Robert Blake: „The climate of opinion is moving in her favour. I think that the … 29 „Think-tank archipelago“: Ben Jackson: The think-tank archipelago: that there is widespread discontent with the level of taxation, to Thatcherism and neo-liberalism, in: Ben Jackson/Robert Saunders take just one simple thing, which was not really the case seven or (Hgg.): Making Thatcher’s Britain, Cambridge 2012, S. 43-61. eight years ago. People have always grumbled about paying income tax, of course, and they always have and always will, but, uh … the 31 „Leben und Tod des menschlichen Geistes”: sort of feeling there is now, I think, about in the country is a much „life and death of the human spirit“: Speech to the National Press stronger one than it was. There's also a great deal of resentment 41 „Geburtsrecht der Freiheit“: about bureaucracy and over-government and one hears much more „birthright of freedom“: Speech to Conservative Women’s of it in the media, in the press and everywhere else. It's a much Conference, 26. Mai 1982 (MTFW 104948) more widely felt thing than it was a few years ago, and that's largely because there is much more of it I think. And it's … that I 41 „wahre Geist Großbritanniens“: „the real spirit of Britain“: Speech to Conservative Rally at think is the reason why this time Mrs Thatcher is particularly that way minded, uh … the situation coincides with her own ideology, as Cheltenham, 3. Juli 1982 (MTFW 104989). a matter of fact.” TV-Interview, London Weekend Television, 18. 43 „richtige Definition” des Thatcherismus gemäß Nigel Lawson: September 1977 (MTFW 103191). „The wrong definition is ,whatever Margaret Thatcher herself at any time did or said’. The right definition involves a mixture of free markets, financial discipline, firm control over public expenditure, IV. Thatcher als Premierministerin tax cuts, nationalism, ,Victorian values’ (of the Samuel Smiles self- help variety), privatization and a dash of populism.” Nigel Lawson: 36 „Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is The View from No. 11. Memoirs of a Tory Radical, London u. a. error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring 1992, S. 64. faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.” Remarks on becoming Prime Minister, 4. Mai 1979 (MTFW 104078). 47 „permissive sechziger Jahre”: „we must all of us protect and strengthen the standards and values 38 Reaktion auf Toxteth-Unruhen: Evans: Thatcher and Thatcherism, S. which underpin our way of life. That means teaching right and 21. wrong in families and in schools. And never, never bowing again to 38 „You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning”: Speech to the waning fashions of the permissive 1960s.” Speech to Young Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, 10. Oktober 1980 (MTFW Conservative Conference, Torquay, 10. Februar 1990 (MTFW 104431). 108011). 40 Peruanischer Kompromissvorschlag und kurzzeitiges Einlenken 47 Kluft zwischen Süd- und Nordengland: Bei der hier nur skizzierten Thatchers: Moore, Bd. 1, S. 721. Auseinanderentwicklung müssen eigentlich auch Wales und vor allem Schottland gesondert einbezogen werden, wo zusätzlich zu sozialen und ökonomischen noch nationale Faktoren die Kluft vertieften. Vgl. z. B. Richard Finlay: Thatcherism, unionism and nationalism: a comparative study of Scotland and Wales, in: Ben 54 „Mir fällt kein einziger Thatcher-Gegner ein, der während dieser Jackson/Robert Saunders (Hgg.): Making Thatcher’s Britain, gesamten Zeit gestorben oder ausgeschieden wäre.“: Cambridge 2012, S. 165-179. „I can’t think of a single anti-Thatcherite who has died or receded throughout that entire period.“ Alan Clark: Diaries. In Power, S. 362, 48 Die pointierte Darstellung der Westland-Affäre folgt der Eintrag vom 21. November 1990. Interpretation bei Vinen, S. 184/185. 54 Zu Thatchers Patronagepraxis vgl. z. B. Campbell, Bd. 2, S. 460ff. 56 „Sie verfügt über große Detailkenntnis…“: V. „Iron Lady“ – Regierungsstil und Selbstinszenierung Teltschik: 329 Tage, S. 189, Eintrag vom 30. März 1990. 51 „Ich würde nicht sagen, dass man mir gelegentlich mangelnde 56 „She was in top gear…“: Aggression vorwerfen könnte“: Urban: Diplomacy and Disillusion, S. 106, Eintrag zum 19. Dezember „I wouldn't say that I was guilty of lack of aggression sometimes.” 1989. TV Interview for BBC1 Val meets the VIPs, 5. März 1973 (MTFW 101992). 57 „Ich bestehe darauf, dass unsere Probleme rigoros durchdacht und erwogen werden sollten.“: 52 Geoffrey Howe-Episode: Moore, Bd. 1, S. 626. „I do insist that our problems should be rigorously thought through 53 Hoskyns-Memorandum zitiert nach: Moore, Bd. 1, S. 641-642 and considered.“ Speech to the Königswinter Conference, (Bewertung des Memorandums ebd., S. 641). Cambridge, 29. März 1990 (MTFW 108049). 53 „andauernde öffentliche Bloßstellung dieser Differenzen, wovon 58 Zu Thatchers Verhalten gegenüber ihren Mitarbeiterinnen und Walters das offensichtlichste Symbol war“: Mitarbeitern vgl. Gurr, S. 173-176. „the problem was not Walters as such; nor was it even the 58 „They seem to like ladies“: difference between Margaret and myself over the crucial question Press Conference after winning Conservative leadership, 11. of exchange rate policy. It was her persistent public exposure of Februar 1975 (MTFW 102487) that difference, of which Walters was the most obvious outward and visible symbol.“: Nigel Lawson: The View from No. 11. Memoirs 58 „Iron Lady of the Western World”: of a Tory Radical, London u. a. 1992, S. 958. Speech to Finchley Conservatives, 31. Januar 1976 (MTFW 102947). 59 Hoskyns-Memorandum zitiert nach: Moore, Bd. 1, S. 641. 59 „keine weitere Frau ins Kabinett berief“: 63/64 Darstellung und Analyse des Granada-Interviews nach Campbell, Es gab nur eine zeitweilige Ausnahme von dieser Regel: Von 1981 Bd. 1, S. 399-401. bis 1983 fungierte Lady Janet Young als Leader of the House of Lords (Moore, Bd.
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