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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Weimar Republic"”.
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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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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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Imagining new possibilities for classical music performance in the 21st-century: Drawing inspiration from the Berlin cabarets of the Weimar Republic
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
… “Cultural Americanisation” in Germany during the Weimar Republic had a lasting impact on music film production from 1929. One of the strongest factors with great influence on the cultural landscape of the Weimar Republic was jazz, which exceeded its meaning as a musical genre by far and was both …
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German Politics and the 'Jewish Question', 1914-1919
… debates and decisions that paved the way for the Weimar Republic. The relevant historiography still tends to read the Jewish Question with hindsight, that is, in the context of the Holocaust and from a social or cultural historical perspective. While it does not ignore the short- and long-term …
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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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Not Leading Lady Material
… in a style evocative of the cabarets of the Weimar Republic. The performance included song, storytelling and dance, and thematically explored intimacy, identity, and social/political disruption all while eliminating the fourth wall and inviting the audience on a journey through personal …
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A new narrative frame: sound design and conceptual storytelling in German film 1930-1933.
During the final years of the Weimar Republic, precisely at a time when the democratic principles of German government came under increasing pressure from national as well as global political and economic forces, sound film became rapidly established as an innovative element in German cinema. With …
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Myths of War: Constructing and Challenging Literary Myths of War in Germany, 1914-1930
… to a consideration of the role of war in the Weimar Republic and the enduring myths that the war had spawned. A detailed analysis of Walter Flex's Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten (1917), Ernst Jünger's In Stahlgewittern (1920), Ludwig Renn's Krieg (1928) and Erich Maria Remarque's Im …
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Martyrs at the Hearth: The Social-Religious Roles of Resistance Women During Nazi Germany
… women about whom I am writing came of age during Weimar Republic (1919-1933), I argue that the women of the resistance received their empowerment to rise up against Nazi oppression from the women's movement of the interwar years. To understand the normative influences, one must consider the …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… dictatorship in the last years of the Weimar Republic and to then readily accept the National Socialist regime once it came to power.</p> <p>This dissertation attempts to completely revise the standard narrative, which has functioned as a procrustean force within Schmitt scholarship. …
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The Economic Theories of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1923-1945
… periods, witnessing the downfall of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi regime, and beyond. The Frankfurt Institute itself underwent significant structural changes, notably a pivotal shift in directorship a few years after its founding, when the political economist Carl Grünberg …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: Cabaret History In The Making
… in 1881 to its height in Germany during the Weimar Republic and will culminate with cabaret's insurgence into American culture up to, and including, the state of American cabaret today. American cabaret will be emphasized, but a portion of the show will explore American cabaret's European …
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Religious And Secular Responses To Nazism: Coordinated And Singular Acts Of Opposition
… Upon the arrival of Nazism on the heels of the Weimar Republic, how was Nazism received by German citizens; secondly, once Nazism gathered a contingent of strong support, what avenues existed for those opposed to Nazism?; and thirdly, in what ways did opposition, resistance, and non-conformance …
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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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Like a Moth to the Flame: Modernity and Mary Wigman 1886-1973
… Mary Wigman spanned the Wilhelmine Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the post-war years. She stands as a seminal figure in what has come to be known as the modern dance. Her Ausdruckstanz or dance of expression was fundamental to the development of dance and theater in Germany and …
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