Author: Bernd Widdig
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: weimar, cultural, criticism, german, germany, inflation, culture
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2001-03-05
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520222903
ISBN-13: 9780520222908
For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
Author: Helmut Lethe
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: weimar, german, cultural, criticism, germany, cool, culture, distance, conduct
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2001-12-03
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520201094
ISBN-13: 9780520201095
Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.
Authors:Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: weimar, criticism, cultural, sourcebook, republic, german
Number of Pages: 806
Published: 1995-11-14
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520067754
ISBN-13: 9780520067752
The Weimar Republic’s political and cultural lessons retain relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions of our age. This book represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler’s rise to power.
Author: Katharina von Ankum
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: weimar, german, cultural, criticism, culture, women, gender, modernity, metropolis
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-02-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520204654
ISBN-13: 9780520204652
Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women’s experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images
Author: Peter Jelavich
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: weimar, culture, german, cultural, criticism, death, alexanderplatz, radio, film, berlin
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520259971
ISBN-13: 9780520259973
This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic’s left-leaning culture of innovation and experimentation. Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that questioned the autonomy and coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, and traces the radical discrepancies that came with its adaptation into a radio play (1930) and a film (1931). Jelavich explains these discrepancies by examining not only the varying demands of genre and
Author: Bernadette Kester
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: weimar, university, amsterdam, press, culture, transition, period, film, films, first, representations, world, war, german, filmfront
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-02-15
List price: $50.75
ISBN-10: 9053565981
ISBN-13: 9789053565988
How was Germany’s experience of World War I depicted in film during the following years? Drawing on analysis of the films of the Weimar era—documentaries and feature films addressing the war’s causes, life at the front, war at sea, and the home front—Bernadette Kester sketches out the historical context, including reviews and censors’ reports, in which these films were made and viewed, and offers much insight into how Germans collectively perceived World War I during its aftermath and beyond.
Author: H. M. Weimar
Publisher: Eloquent Books
Keywords: grass
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 1606935607
ISBN-13: 9781606935606
Heather Drumm has dealt with loss for most of her 23 years. The death of her mother, the disappearance of her sister, and the loss of her father - emotionally - when she needed him most. Her confusing and anger-filled childhood leaves her with more questions than answers. Returning home, she faces almost insurmountable obstacles in her quest for answers. Obstacles as high as the blades of grass that grow so thick in Heather’s backyard they almost whistle in the winds during a storm. In pursuit of the truth, family secrets come to light. Heather realizes some secrets are better left unsai
