The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin

The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781640141230
ISBN-13 : 1640141235
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Book Synopsis The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin by : Jill Suzanne Smith

Download or read book The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin written by Jill Suzanne Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the recent proliferation of literary and filmic representations of Weimar Berlin in German culture, probing the connections between historical and contemporary texts, their contexts, and their creators, often German Jews and women. More than a century after its founding, there can be little doubt that Weimar is back. The recent proliferation of references to and portrayals of the Weimar Republic-Germany's first democracy, born out of the aftermath of the First World War and characterized by economic and political crisis-is not surprising given our crisis-filled present. That said, the Weimar era has been a consistent focus of scholarly work in both the German-speaking and the Anglo-American academic worlds since the 1970s, and yet depictions of this period in German literature and visual culture were few and far between until the beginning of the 21st century. This book traces this renewed fascination with Weimar-specifically its capital, Berlin-in contemporary German-language culture, providing both wide-angle and close-up views. While discussions of the time period in mainstream media and historiography tend to focus on Weimar as a warning against the dangers of economic and political instability, the novels and visual works produced by contemporary German writers and filmmakers in the last 15 years revive and reshape the cultural legacy of Weimar Berlin. The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin explores the creative interplay between contemporary and historical texts, their contexts, and their creators, tracing a cultural legacy that has the work of German Jews and women as its foundation"--


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