From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler:
The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy
& the Emergence of German Fascism
Week 6: February 24, 2005
The Road to Recovery & New Sobriety
The 1923-1924
[Assigned Reading from Weimar Republic Sourcebook]
A New Democracy in Crisis
I. The Legacy of the War
9. Kurt Tucholsky, The Spirit of 1914 (1924) [pp. 20-22]
III. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression
23. The Dawes Committee Report (1924) [pp. 64-67]
IV. Coming to Terms with Democracy
41. Carl von Ossietzky, Defending the Republic: The Great Fashion (1924) [pp. 110-112]
VI. The Struggle Against Fascism [pp. 145-146]
56. Ernst Bloch, Hitler's Force (1924) [pp. 147-149]
Pressure Points of Social Life
VII. White-Collar Workers: Mittelstand or Middle Class?
67. Fritz Schröder, The Labor Market for White-Collar Workers (1924) [pp. 184-185]
X. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance
102. Das Tagebuch, Editorial, The German Spirit (1924) [pp. 258-259]
Intellectuals and the Ideologies of the Age
XIV. Cultural Pessimism: Diagnoses of Decline
140. Willy Hellpach, The Catholic Cultural Offensive and Political Catholicism (1924-1925)[p. 362-365]
The Challenge of Modernity
XVII. Designing the New World: Modern Architecture and the Bauhaus
168. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture and the Will of the Age (1924)[pp. 438-439]
XVIII. Housing for the Masses
177. Bruno Taut, The New Dwelling: The Woman as Creator (1924)[pp. 461-462]
Changing Configurations of Culture
XX. Literature: High and Low [pp.507-509]
199. Max Brod, Franz Kafka's Posthumous Writings(1924) [p.510-511]
XXII. The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment
229. Frank Warschauer, Berlin Revues (1924) [p. 554-555]
230. Maximilian Sladek, Our Show (1924) [p. 556]
231. Ferdinand Hager, The Flight of the 'Blue Bird' (1924) [pp. 557-558]
The Transformation of Everyday Life
XXVIII. The Cult of the Body: Lebensreform, Sports, and Dance [pp. 673-675]
292. Adolf Koch, The Truth About the Berlin Nudist Groups (1924) [p. 676]
XXIX. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms
306. Hugo Bettauer, The Erotic Revolution (1924) [p. 698-700]
Supplemental Readings [photocopies supplied by instructor]
A. John Willett, Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933, Chronology 1924: pp. 242-243.