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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Weimar"”.
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Hannah Hoch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Sexual Subculture
Hannah Hoch was an avid collector of Weimar print media and her signature medium was the photomontage. Because of this, her work is generally explored within the context of mainstream media and, to a degree, this is adequate. Yet this dissertation questions the completeness of this path of enquiry …
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Stabilization programs: A comparative study of Weimar Germany and Argentina
"The current debate on inflation stabilization is led by Thomas Sargent and Rudiger Dornbusch. The two names stand for different ideas, approaches, and methods. The controversy ignited around the interpretation of the term ""credibility"" and how to establish credible policy. The two views appear …
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Art and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1917-1933
… as a form of foreign cultural policy in Weimar Germany from 1917 until 1933. It questions how, why and with what intentions the German Federal Foreign Office pursued an official representation of the new Republic abroad through art, at a time when the visual arts were increasingly seen as …
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Franz Liszt's sonata narratives: large-scale forms at the Weimar Court
… between the years of 1848 to 1861 at the Weimar Court Theatre. Drawing primary attention to the theoretical models of the new <i>Formenlehre</i>, including William Caplin’s theory of formal functions, James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s Sonata Theory, and their nineteenth-century …
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Front Line Weimar: Paramilitary Mobilization and Masculine Representation in Postwar Germany
… The ""new man"" of the 1920s, a counterpart to Weimar's ""new woman,"" valorized the distinctly male battlefield experience and was compelled to recruit and train other men, including his own sons, for paramilitary organizations in an effort to reclaim national unity and strength. The …
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A study of various Nationalist appropriations of Nietzsche in the Weimar Republic
… key nationalist figures from Germany during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). These three individuals are the author Ernst Jünger, and from within the Nazi Party, the Nietzsche scholar, Alfred Baeumler and the ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. There has been significant research into these separate …
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The politics of a German town during the Weimar Republic : Coburg 1918-1929.
… on inter-war Germany for the periods of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, there is a dearth of literature on politics at the local level. This means that there have been no analytical studies of the politics of local government in inter-war Germany despite the importance attached to …
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The Influence of Weimar Culture on Pop Music in the 1970s and ‘80s
… thesis is an investigation into the influence of Weimar Berlin’s culture on British popular music of the 1970 and 1980s. The two eras are studied historically and artistically though the constant and ever-changing backdrop of the city of Berlin. The retrospective significance in postmodern terms …
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The heroic earth: The flowering of geopolitical thought in Weimar Germany, 1924-1933
… the dimensions of geopolitical rhetoric in the Weimar period. Geopolitical language focused on the concept of geodeterminism, the belief that geography exercises a decisive formative influence on states and societies. The work also discusses the geopolitical concept of the state as an organism, …
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Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann's Early Works and Weimar Homosexual Culture (1919-1933)
… Klaus Mann (1906–1949), written during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Specifically, I read Mann against the backdrop of Weimar homosexual culture and its debates around homosexual emancipation, bringing his writings into dialogue with the sexological, cultural and literary texts of other …
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Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
… poster designs produced in Germany during the Weimar Republic as significant cultural artifacts revealing the intersections between consumerism and aesthetics, popular entertainment and fine art. The intent of my dissertation is two-fold. On the one hand, I reconsider the intellectual debates …
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Murder Scenes: Criminal Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin
… violence and urban culture in Berlin during the Weimar period. Based on police and court documents and newspaper accounts, it examines how Berliners experienced and made sense of homicidal violence within their urban communities. Criminal violence occupied a peculiar place in the culture of …
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Negotiating the past in Weimar culture: Neue Sachlichkeit and Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen
… the social and cultural issues existing in the Weimar Republic, such as unemployment, the metropolis and mass culture, modernity, and the Neue Frau (New Woman). During this time, Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) was one of the dominant literary and artistic movements, encouraging rational, …
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From prop to producer: the appropriation of radio technology in opera during the Weimar Republic.
… of radio technology in opera composed during the Weimar Republic. It identifies a gap in current research where opera and radio have often been examined separately in the fields of musicology and media history. This research adopts a case study approach and combines the disciplines of musicology …
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Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States
… Against shifting expressions of democracy in Weimar Germany and the mid-century United States, Dorner's polemical focus on museum experience was, in effect, an attempt to train citizens for collective but heterogeneous social life.
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G.W. Pabst and the New Objectivity: Social Criticism and the Loss of Idealism in the Weimar Republic
Between the years of 1919 and 1933, the Weimar Republic was a world leader in art and entertainment. However, it was also torn apart by severe economic depressions and political violence. This intense atmosphere provided a powerful context for the art and films of the period. As the political and …
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Creating a Space in the Medical Profession: Female Physicians, Maternalism, and Eugenics Work in Weimar and Nazi Germany
… venereal disease, and prostitution during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and in organizations like the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls; BDM) and the Reichsmütterdienst (Reich Mothers' Service), as well as their efforts in the racial hygiene and anti-tobacco campaigns during the …
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Helene Stöcker, Weimar Germany and Prophylactics: An Investigation Into the Context and Effects of the Reichsgesestz zur Bekämpfung Geschlechtskrankheiten
… paper investigates German gender studies in the Weimar Era. It looks at a specific law, passed regarding contraceptive devices. It seeks to show how women were presented with a guise of freedom, while living in a truly paternalistic society.</p>
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