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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Weimar Germany"”.
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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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The heroic earth: The flowering of geopolitical thought in Weimar Germany, 1924-1933
… the popularization of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the decade before the Nazi seizure of power. It opens by tracing the reception of geopolitical ideas in Germany in the late nineteenth century, and then examines the dimensions of geopolitical rhetoric in the Weimar period. Geopolitical …
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Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
… film advertising and 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 …
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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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From <italic>Massenlieder<italic> to <italic>Massovaia Pesnia<italic>: Musical Exchanges between Communists and Socialists of Weimar Germany and the Early Soviet Union
… (1918-1939), particularly in recently-defeated Germany and in the newly-established Soviet Union. This dissertation explores the musical relationship between these two troubled countries and aims to explain the similarities and differences in their approaches to collective singing. The …
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Remembering Danzig and Reclaiming Gdańsk
… years reveals a severe rift between Poland and Weimar Germany over the Free city of Danzig. German memory would remember the city 's nazification, the invasion by Germany and even the relative safety during the war as traumatic through a general feeling that Nazism had been forced upon German …
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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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Narratives of Citizenship in the German Novel, 1926-1959
… of citizenship in the German novel from the Weimar Republic to the post-war era, 1926 – 1959. As an inherently contested concept, citizenship presented an important terrain for many of the twentieth century’s key political struggles. The main body of the dissertation is divided into three …
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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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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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Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice
… of living space by focusing on housing reform in Weimar Germany’s Berlin and Frankfurt am Main as well as on the subsequent projects of German modernist architects working in the USSR in the early 1930s. Broadly, my work addresses questions of urban politics (primarily in Germany and Soviet …