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 ; 22
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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