...Jonathan Gentry After the success of Richard Strauss's Salome , the German music world devolved into bitter arguments about the degeneration of both music and society. Simultaneously, Germany's constitutional crisis over imperial wars generated new nationalist coalitions and racist politics...

... events shine through and one sees the blood of its colors. —Rainer Maria Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé, October 21, 1913 The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke fi rst arrived in Paris on August 28, 1902, at the age of twenty-six...

... crisis, while also pointing to further, related artistic responses to National Socialism. Paul Klee apparently sought to feminize fascism in 1933 by caricaturing Hitler as a deca- dent, incestuous femme fatale in Other Salome (Andere Salome), a drawing rooted in his old interests in Oscar Wilde...

...-Salomé of 1903, Rilke renders his ideal more explicitly: Somehow I too must manage to make things; written, not plastic things,—realities that proceed from handwork. Somehow I too must discover the smallest basic element, the cell of my art, the tangible medium of presentation for everything...

... Moritzplatz, hot spot of such Neue Wilden artists as Rainer Fetting and Salom but the Wall figures here more as a symbol of universal alienation in the tradition of urban expressionism than as a cipher of national division. Andreas Huyssen 217 Novels...

... : Little, Brown , 1998 . Svirsky Salomé Aguilera . “ The Postcolonial City Symphony Film and the ‘Ruins’ of Suite Habana .” Social Identities 19 , nos. 3 – 4 ( 2013 ): 423 – 39 . Uecker Matthias . Anti-Fernsehen? Alexander Kluges Fernsehproduktion . Marburg : Schüren , 2000...

... as though modern- ism had come full circle (hence Heinrich Klotz’s 1984 thesis of a “second mod- ernism” in art).16 Yet the new fauves themselves, especially the Moritzplatz artists in Berlin (Rainer Fetting, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer), invoked quite alternative role models...