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Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 9. Dirne und Kriegsverletzter ( Prostitute and War Wounded ), by Otto Dix, 1923. Pen and ink on paper, 47 × 37 cm (18 ½ ×14 9/16 in). Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster. © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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“The Great Imitator”: Syphilis and Clandestine Prostitution in Otto Dix’s Die Witwe Watercolors
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Figure 9. Dirne und Kriegsverletzter ( Prostitute and War Wounded ), by Otto Dix, 1923. Pen and ink on paper, 47 × 37 cm (18 ½ ×14 9/16 in). Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster. © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. ...
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> New German Critique
Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 3. Drei Dirnen auf der Straße ( Three Prostitutes on the Street ), by Otto Dix, 1925. Tempera on plywood, 95 × 100 cm (37 3/8 × 39 3/8 in). Private collection, Hamburg, Germany. © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Solitary Confinement: Reproduction and the Law in Kluge's Abschied von gestern
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 111–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... for venereal disease (VD). To this degree, Anita is treated (medically) like a prostitute: in
postwar Germany, anxieties about the spread of VD fueled the intense regulation of prostitution and
of women’s bodies more generally. Michaela Freund writes: “It was not the professional prostitute,
however, who...
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Was Nicht im “Baedeker” Steht: Exploring Art, Mass Culture, and Antitourism in Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 207–245.
Published: 01 February 2018
... in Curt Moreck’s Guide to ‘Depraved’ Berlin (1931) .” Oxford Art Journal 36 , no. 2 : 231 – 56 . Smith Jill . 2010 . “ Just How Naughty Was Berlin: The Geography of Prostitution and Female Sexuality in Moreck’s Erotic Travel Guide .” In Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German...
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Billy Wilder's Work as Eintänzer in Weimar Berlin
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 65–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
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ual desire. See Smith, “Working Girls: White-Collar Workers and Prostitutes in Late Weimar Fic-
tion,” German Quarterly 81, no. 4 (2008): 457.
15. The installments in the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag appeared on January 19, 20, 22, and 24.
On June 2 and 9, 1927, the same essays were grouped...
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Brains: Forms of Life in Gottfried Benn’s Rönne Novellas
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
... does because, as a humanistically and scientifically educated German male doctor at the beginning of the twentieth century, he simply knows certain things—about colonialism, the romanticism of Arabia, the female body, the life of prostitutes, the sexual act, power, and so on. And because history has...
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Trophy Hunter: Ulrich Seidl’s Portraits and Safari
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2019
... debases a prostitute, have been regarded as exploitative, and they may be disquieting because they show little sign of simulation. Seidl has told interviewers that the actress involved was a professional sex worker. 25 The power of this film derives in great part from its reliance on quasi-documentary...
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It’s All about the Benjamins: Considerations on the Gambler as a Political Type
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2018
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image of modern life and glimpse into the distinctive pathos of bourgeois soci-
ety. Benjamin’s gambler, like the prostitute and the opium eater, registers the
decay of experience in modernity. The gambler chases after a distinctly erotic
excitation, a Dionysian thrill that comes with heightened...
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Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers's Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
.... Most
important, he has been present in the community long before he arrived. The
fishermen know him as the leader of a recent uprising in Port Sebastian, a
knowledge picked up by a popular local song sung by the prostitute Marie when
the fishermen encounter Hull for the first time. Having...
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Intellectual Promiscuity: Cultural History in the Age of the Cinema, the Network, and the Database
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
... features a cast of deracinated characters—prostitutes and “locals”
from all corners of the world: “The Quartier Réservé nurtured its underworld,
pampered, educated, abandoned and took it back, leading it on inexplicable
routes. The city abandoned this sewer of oily waters so rich in lost objects...
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On Anson Rabinbach’s Staging the Third Reich
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 205–220.
Published: 01 August 2021
...” (225). An essential part of the propaganda was the characterization of the rather pathetic Marinus van der Lubbe (a communist accused of setting the fire) as a homosexual prostitute serving the Nazis, a working-class communist turned into a hopelessly confused vagabond. Left antifascists hardly...
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“Play with Danger”: Vernacular Modernism and the Problem of Criticism
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 67–82.
Published: 01 August 2014
... labor and prostitution,” to the hero-
ine’s eventual execution and the hero’s “participation in the victorious struggle
of the Nationalist revolution” (FW, 18). Daybreak, moreover, tracks this shift
through the star’s changing acting style, moving from naturalism to artifice as
she becomes...
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Media of Conspiracy: Love and Surveillance in Fritz Lang and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 127–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
...—information that no
bug can reveal: she thus betrays the hiding place of a typewriter on which
Dreyman had written a highly critical article that he anonymously published in
the West German magazine Der Spiegel. Sieland is coerced into prostituting
herself and betraying her most intimate friend...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Adorno what he meant,” Unseld continues,
“he told me that ‘third persons,’ for Marx, were parasites not unlike prostitutes
and procurers.” Four days later, when he convened with the insurgents to discuss
New German Critique 132, Vol. 44, No. 3, November 2017
DOI 10.1215/0094033X-4162202 © 2017...
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Minima Patientia : Reflections on the Subject of Suffering
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of suffering are discernible in this lingering: Homer’s nar-
rative of the hanging of the prostitutes and Kafka’s photographic account of
the medieval head-down hanging of the Jews. Neither fully in themselves, nor
fully outside themselves, suspended between heaven and earth at the limits
of life...
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Großstadtfilm and Gentrification Debates: Localism and Social Imaginary in Soul Kitchen and Eine flexible Frau
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 171–191.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Debates
Berlin—die Sinfonie der Großstadt from the same year. The city film genre,
Großstadtfilm, typically portrayed human interest stories of people affected
by the difficulties of urban life: squalor, joblessness, prostitution, addictions,
criminality, or proletarian suffering in general.4...
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Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 73–94.
Published: 01 August 2010
... choose between prostitut-
ing himself to a sadistic film director or completing the tunnel to liberate the
parents he would actually prefer to keep in the GDR). There are vague gestures
at “big meaning,” but for the most part Lindquist is content to leave its back-
drop as backdrop. For all its...
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Toward an Expansion of the Critique of the Mahler Revival
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (2 (119)): 113–136.
Published: 01 August 2013
... her the money that he himself
has given her. A fight with her pimp ensues, which results in the prostitute
slashing the professor’s face. The film ends with the professor before a mirror,
contemplating the bloody gash, as if to imply that he is finally able to feel
25. “Mahler Grooves...
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World Literature and Socialist Internationalism in the Weimar Republic: Five Theses
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 153–180.
Published: 01 February 2021
... female textile workers in China, raftsmen on the Moldova, stokers from Malaysia working on British ships, and, everywhere, prostitutes. In the same key, for Jung, the multifaceted Jack London, “the seaman, the jute-worker, the tramp, the gold panner, the horse groomer, the class comrade of the workers...
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