Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects : : Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s / / ed. by Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, Kristin McGuire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Achilles, Manuela,; Barndt, Kerstin,; Canning, Kathleen,; Doherty, Brigid,; Fritzsche, Peter,; Geyer, Martin H.,; Gillerman, Sharon,; Hansen, Miriam,; Jonsson, Stefan,; Kaes, Anton,; Mcguire, Kristin,; Mergel, Thomas,; Otto, Elizabeth,; Sammartino, Annemarie,; Schumann, Dirk,; Widdig, Bernd,; Wildenthal, Lora,
• HerausgeberIn: Barndt, Kerstin,; Canning, Kathleen,; McGuire, Kristin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser’s state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Weimar Subjects/Weimar Publics Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s -- PART I Defeat and the Legacy of War -- 1. The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War -- 2. The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada -- 3. The Secret History of Photomontage: On the Origins of the Composite Form and the Weimar Photomontages of Marianne Brandt -- Part II. New Citizens/New Subjectivities -- 4. Mothers, Citizens, and Consumers: Female Readers in Weimar Germany -- 5. Claiming Citizenship: Suffrage and Subjectivity in Germany after the First World War -- 6. Feminist Politics beyond the Reichstag: Helene Stöcker and Visions of Reform -- 7. Producing Jews: Maternity, Eugenics, and the Embodiment of the Jewish Subject -- PART III Symbols, Rituals, and Discourses of Democracy -- 8. Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic -- 9. High Expectations—Deep Disappointment: Structures of the Public Perception of Politics in the Weimar Republic -- 10. Contested Narratives of the Weimar Republic: Th e Case of the “Kutisker-Barmat Scandal” -- 11. Political Violence, Contested Public Space, and Reasserted Masculinity in Weimar Germany -- Part IV. Publics, Publicity, and Mass Culture -- 12. “A Self-Representation of the Masses”: Siegfried Kracauer’s Curious Americanism -- 13. Neither Masses nor Individuals: Representations of the Collective in Interwar German Culture -- 14. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals -- Part V: Weimar Topographies -- 15. Defining the Nation in Crisis: Citizenship Policy in the Early Weimar Republic -- 16. Gender and Colonial Politics after the Versailles Treaty -- 17. The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX