Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects : : Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.)
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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

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