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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Table of Contents:
- 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