Crime Stories : : Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany / / Todd Herzog.
The Weimar Republic (1918–1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public’s reaction to their c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monographs in German History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 CRIME, DETECTION, AND GERMAN MODERNISM -- Chapter 2 WRITING CRIMINALS Outsiders of Society and the Modernist Case History -- Chapter 3 UNDERSTANDING CRIMINALS Th e Cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf -- Chapter 4 SEEING CRIMINALS Mass Murder, Mass Culture, Mass Public -- Chapter 5 TRACKING CRIMINALS Th e Cases of Peter Kürten, Franz Beckert, and Emil Tischbein -- CONCLUSION Criminalistic Fantasy after Weimar -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | The Weimar Republic (1918–1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public’s reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic’s self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781845459055 9783110998283 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781845459055 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Todd Herzog. |