Weimar Controversies

Weimar Controversies
Author: Peter S. Fisher
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839451469

In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of political conflict? Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to knit these exemplary stories together. Following his methodology, society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.

Weimar Controversies

Weimar Controversies
Author: Peter S. Fisher
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9783837651461

In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. Peter S. Fisher draws on Siegfried Kracauer's trenchant observations on Weimar's contradictions to let society's underdogs take center stage, pushing the headline makers into the background.

The Jazz Republic

The Jazz Republic
Author: Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 047205340X

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Author: Moritz Föllmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108983634

Arguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.

The Dialectical Imagination

The Dialectical Imagination
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1996-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520917510

Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

Passing Illusions

Passing Illusions
Author: Kerry Wallach
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472053574

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews

From Weimar to Hitler

From Weimar to Hitler
Author: Hermann Beck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785339184

Though often depicted as a rapid political transformation, the Nazi seizure of power was in fact a process that extended from the appointment of the Papen cabinet in the early summer of 1932 through the Röhm blood purge two years later. Across fourteen rigorous and carefully researched chapters, From Weimar to Hitler offers a compelling collective investigation of this critical period in modern German history. Each case study presents new empirical research on the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and Hitler’s consolidation of power. Together, they provide multiple perspectives on the extent to which the triumph of Nazism was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent.

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany
Author: Katie Sutton
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857451219

Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German “race” following the rupture of war. Drawing on recent developments within the history of sexuality, this book sheds new light on representations and discussions of the masculine woman within the Weimar print media from 1918–1933. It traces the connotations and controversies surrounding this figure from her rise to media prominence in the early 1920s until the beginning of the Nazi period, considering questions of race, class, sexuality, and geography. By focusing on styles, bodies and identities that did not conform to societal norms of binary gender or heterosexuality, this book contributes to our understanding of gendered lives and experiences at this pivotal juncture in German history.

Weimar

Weimar
Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1990
Genre: Germany
ISBN:

No failure in democratic history had such far reaching consequences as the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Recent debate has centered upon the viability of Weimar democracy and the inevitability of its failure in the context of insuperable economic problems. The papers presented here offer perspect