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... Weimar postcolonialism biopoetics References Benn Gottfried . 1989 . Gesammelte Werke in der Fassung der Erstdrucke , edited by Hillebrand Bruno . Frankfurt am Main : Fischer . Conrad Sebastian . 2012 . German Colonialism: A Short History , translated by O'Hagan...

... , and Rector Martin . Linksradikalismus und Literatur: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der sozialistischen Literatur in der Weimarer Republik . Vol. 1 . Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt , 1974 . Fayet Jean-Francois . “ 1919 .” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism , edited by Smith...

... adventures, he not only reflected on the change of foreign politics in the aftermath of World War I but set out to argue for the Weimar Republic to become a Western democracy. His defense of the parliamentary system, his claim for a democratic capitalism, his plea for European unity, and his early critique...

... intellectual life in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism, and then cross the Atlantic to the United States? What did it mean to German and American intellectu- als, and why did they embrace or reject the concept? These are the questions that this essay seeks to answer. Despite the vast...

... illustrate his ideas. Brandt, like many photomon- teurs after World War I, was absorbing and synthesizing both experimental trends among the avant-garde and the wide array and massive quantity of photographic imagery suddenly available in the Weimar Republic’s illus- trated press.2 Famed...

... informant. He moved from Weimar cinema, where the films he collaborated on are canonical in the field of German studies, to Hollywood, where he shot most of his films. He passed away as an American at the beginning of the twenty-first century and is buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park...

... Press . Kracauer Siegfried . 1969 . History: The Last Things before the Last . New York : Oxford University Press . ———. 1994 . “The Task of the Film Critic.” In The Weimar Republic Sourcebook , edited by Kaes Anton Jay Martin Dimendberg Edward , 634 – 35 . Berkeley...

.... Matthew Philpotts 215 dows were characterized by a clarity of design that was only fitting for its func- tion. In the process he invoked one of the bywords of Weimar modernism: “This functionality [Sachlichkeit] corresponds to the purpose of a very large administrative building with numerous...

...- ments of this group of legalists—their stated moderation, or the shaping of a constitutional culture—Salzberger and Oz-Salzberger also point to the group’s deep loyalty to the legal formalism of the Weimar Republic and a deeply ingrained mistrust of politics that did not shake the experts’ faith...

... : Wayne State University Press , 1998 . MacDonald Scott . “ The City as the Country: The New York City Symphony from Rudy Burckhardt to Spike Lee .” Film Quarterly 51 , no. 2 ( 1997 – 98 ): 2 – 20 . McBride Patrizia . The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar...

... to the world’s moral outrage. And although Mitscherlich as the docu- mentarian of Nazi medical crimes had been a key player in that exposure, and in general had anti-Nazi bona fides (his somewhat more complicated relation- ship to rightwing nationalist trends in the Weimar era came out only after his death...

..., Benjamin-Handbuch, 167–74. 10. Samuel Weber, Benjamin’s-abilities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 250–80. 11. Dirk Baecker, ed., Kapitalismus als Religion (Berlin: Kadmos, 2003); see also my review of this book in Weimarer Beiträge 51 (2005): 306–9. 12. Dirk Baecker...

... and Aquatic Flows Storm was seven years old in 1825, and his daughter, Gertrud Storm, describes this flood as the first “great event” of his life.3 It also made a big impression on the aging Goethe in Weimar, leading him to “look upon the ele- ments as gigantic adversaries with whom we have...

... in support of the Nazis, dates back to the Weimar Republic: Olaf Kistenmacher cites the Communist Party of Germany’s newspaper Rote Fahne , where Jews were portrayed supporting Hitler, in headlines such as “Jewish department store owner finances Nazi propaganda.” 54 Even if one considers this Swedish...

... technological sphere with the physical environment. Goethe’s work for the Weimar Hydrologic Engineering Commission provided a future-oriented framework considering potential risks that Wilczek sees as a map for the fairy tale’s otherwise seem- ingly enigmatic movement toward a final restoration of a new...