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Was Nicht im “Baedeker” Steht: Exploring Art, Mass Culture, and Antitourism in Weimar Germany

Camilla Smith
New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4269910
Published: 01 February 2018
...Camilla Smith This article focuses on visual culture and the guidebook series Was nicht im “Baedeker” steht , published by Piper Verlag in Weimar Germany. The Berlin guide, written by Eugen Szatmari in 1927, shared attitudes toward tourism championed by the journal Der Querschnitt . Szatmari’s...
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The Last Dwelling before the Last: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critical Contribution to the Modernist Housing Debate in Weimar Germany

Hans-Georg von Arburg
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607633
Published: 01 November 2020
...-level dwellings, a new type of housing was propagated in newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, films, guidebooks, and advertisements. Siegfried Kracauer, architect, journalist, and author, also became engaged in this debate, willfully reinterpreting New Objectivity’s aesthetics of things ( Dingästhetik...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin

Eric Bulson
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-004
Published: 01 August 2010
... was getting readers lost in the postwar urban ruins of Europe, he relied on the guidebooks of Karl Baedeker to find his way. Bae- deker’s little red handbooks, which set the standard for the guidebook industry in the nineteenth century, contained a wealth of information about cities around the globe...
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Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the Cinema, the Network, and the Database

Sabine Haenni
New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2680846
Published: 01 August 2014
... for tour- ism. The port had left its mark everywhere on the city. Sexual promiscuity right at the center of town was very much part of its identity. A guidebook from 1925 advised tourists to explore both the old port and the new one, and while recognizing some of the sights between the two points...
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From “Degenerate Art” To “Looted Art”: Developments and Consequences of National Socialist Cultural Policy

Olaf Peters
New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 9–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3705676
Published: 01 February 2017
... that the viewers condemned what the painters expressed. Understandably, given how hastily it was organized, the exhibition was not accompanied by a catalog or guidebook. A bright red insert was, however, included in the catalog of the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung. It sensation- ally called...
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Ruins of the Cold War

Yuliya Komska
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 155–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-027
Published: 01 February 2011
... to the postwar rubble aesthetic. The author appears acutely aware of this transgression. Instead of put- ting together a guidebook for a virtual journey from ruins to renewal, Bartl employs Egerland to flesh out the ambivalence of visual rubble vocabularies, now ambiguously attributable either...
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Adorno’s “Urbanism and Societal Order” and the State of Rebuilding West Germany, 1949

Lynnette Widder
New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10926439
Published: 01 February 2024
... individual and collective was embedded in the fabric of West German society by this time. The concern was expressed in the guidebooks issued by both Catholic and Protestant churches to assist private citizens in their return to civil courage and ethical everyday life, 31 as well as in the steps taken...
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Sound Biopolitics: Modernist Music and Degeneration in the Wilhelmine Empire

Jonathan Gentry
New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3860261
Published: 01 August 2017
... aesthetics could not be kept autonomous from society and politics. In part, this development can be attributed to Otto Roese, author of the original Salome guidebook for concert audiences. In a pamphlet that identified musical themes, he spends the entire introduction explaining how Salome’s music...
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Die Schöne Heimat ? Depictions of Germany in a Popular Photobook from the Second Empire to the Federal Republic

Matthew Jefferies
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 35–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546153
Published: 01 August 2019
.... 33 It should be remembered, however, that Langewiesche also pored over local guidebooks, picture postcards, and other published works looking for suitable motifs. 34 In the end, the largest single supplier of photographs was the Royal Prussian Institute for Survey Photography ( Messbildanstalt...
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