In spite of having been short-lived, "Weimar" has never lost its
fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German
history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end
- Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933;
its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of
flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of
interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is
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. This collection offers new perspectives
from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history,
film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture
of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat,
revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser's state, the visionaries of
Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and
cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms
of parliaments and political parties.
Kathleen Canning is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History,
Women's Studies, and German at the University of Michigan. She is
the author of Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in
Germany, 1850-1914 (2nd ed., University of Michigan Press 2002) and
Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies,
Class, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press 2006). She is
currently a board member of Central European History and the
Journal of Modern History.
Kerstin Barndt is Associate Professor of German Studies at the
University of Michigan. She is the author of Sentiment und
Sachlichkeit. Der Roman der Neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik
(Bohlau 2004) and several articles on German modernism, gender
theory, and the history of reading. Her current book project
Exhibition Time. History, Memory, and Aesthetics in Germany focuses
on contemporary exhibition culture against the backdrop of national
unifi cation, migration, and deindustrialization.
Kristin McGuire is a Research Fellow at the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan and
co-Director of the Global Feminisms Project based at the University
of Michigan. She is the co-author of Global Feminisms through a
Virtual Archive (SIGNS 2010). She is currently working on a book
manuscript, Activism, Intimacy and Selfhood which offers a
comparative historical analysis of women activists in Germany and
Poland from 1890-1918; and co-editing a volume of translated essays
entitled Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality: An Anthology of
European Women's Writings, 1880-1920. Cover image: Marianne Brandt,
Es wird marschiert (1928)"
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