From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler: The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy & the Emergence of German Fascism

Week 3: February 3, 2005

The Failed Revolution's Republic & The Reaction

1920-1921

[Assigned Reading from Weimar Republic Sourcebook]

Pressure Points of Social Life

VII. White-Collar Workers: Mittelstand or Middleclass? [p.181]

65. Hans Georg: Our Stand at the Abyss (1921) [pp. 182-183]

VIII. The Rise of the New Woman [pp. 195-196]

73. Die Kommunistin: Manifesto for International Women's Day (1921) [p. 198-199]

X. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance [p. 248-249]

98. Martin Buber: Nationalism (1921) [p. 250-253]

99. Efraim Frisch: Jewish Sketches (1921-1922) [p. 253-255]

Intellectuals and the Ideologies of the Age

XI. Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals [pp. 285-286]

111. Alfred Döblin : The Writer and the State (1921) [pp. 288-290]

The Transformation of Everyday Life

XXIX. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms

304. Kurt Hiller : The Law and Sexual Minorities (1921) [pp. 696-697]

XXX. On the Margins of the Law: Vice, Crime, and the Social Order

317. Carl Ludwig Schleich : Cocaineism (1921) [pp. 723-724]

 

Supplemental Readings [photocopies supplied by instructor]

A. A.J. Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler, Chapter 5: 1919-1922: Years of Crisis and Uncertainty, pp. 56-82.

B. Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, Chapter 3: The Secret Germany: Poetry as Power, pp. 46-69,

C. Chronological Tables: (1)1921- 1922, Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, pp. 236-239.