Packet 6: Tossup 19

Original-language term required. A program named for “perspectives” and this word finds jobs for returnees in countries like the Gambia and Kosovo. This word’s namesake anti-industrial “protection” movement inspired the regionalist style of the South Railway Hotel as well as groups like the Friends of Nature. This word names the bucolic 19th-century genre of the novel that inspired La Wally (“vah-LEE”), and the similar film genre of The Heath is Green. Anton Kaes’s book on historical cinema is titled “From Hitler to” (-5[1])this word, (-5[1])referencing a sprawling film series (-5[1])by Edgar Reitz. (10[2])The CSU renamed the Interior Ministry for this word, which is the rebranded name of the far-right National Democratic Party. This feminine word, which connotes comfort and familiarity, is prefixed by (10[2])“Ur” to describe (10[2]-5[1])the (10[1])place (10[1])inhabited by speakers of a proto-language. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])give this German word for “homeland.” (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[7])

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