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Rethinking Weimar’s Political Culture

WEIMAR PUBLICS/WEIMAR SUBJECTS. Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s (ed. by Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt, and Kristin McGuire) is a collection of ‘interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture […] uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption.’

Contributions include:

Anton Kaes: The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War

Thomas Mergel: High Expectations – Deep Disappointment: Structures of the Public Perception of Politics in the Weimar Republic

Peter Fritzsche: The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany

Kathleen Canning: Claiming Citizenship: Suffrage and Subjectivity in Germany after the First World War

>> Review (in German History, 1/2012)

Weimar Culture Revisited

Weimar culture has often been portrayed quite one-dimensionally as a ‘dance on the volcano’, a surge of avant-garde, high art before the backdrop of political and economic crisis. The contributors to the new publication Weimar Culture Revisited (ed. by John A. Williams) take a different apporach:

‘Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic shift in the research on culture in general away from the strict focus on high arts and literature to everyday popular culture. A younger generation of scholars now takes the broad view of culture as not merely the work of elite artists and intellectuals, but as constructed in everyday practice and thorough popular participation.’