From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler:
The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy
& the Emergence of German Fascism
Week 5: February 17, 2005
Occupation & Inflation
The 1922-1923
[Assigned Reading from Weimar Republic Sourcebook]
A New Democracy in Crisis
III. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression [pp. 60-61]
21. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Occupation of the Ruhr (1923) [pp. 62-63]
22. Friedrich Kroner: Overwrought Nerves (1923) [pp. 63-64]
IV. Coming to Terms with Democracy [pp.86-87]
40. Das Tagebuch, Editorial on the Anniversary of the Death of Walter Rathenau (1923) [pp. 109-110]
Pressure Points of Social Life
VII. White-Collar Workers: Mittelstand or Middle Class?
66. Margot Starke, The Bank Clerk (1923) [pp. 183-184]
Intellectuals and the Ideologies of the Age
XI. Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals
112. Franz W. Seifert and Franz Pfemfert, The Function of Intellectuals in Society and Their Task in the Proletarian Revolution (1923)[p. 291-294]
113. Alfred Weber, The Predicament of Intellectual Workers (1923) [pp. 294-295]
XII. Critical Theory and the Search for a New Left [p. 309-311]
120. Karl Radek, Leo Schlageter: The Wanderer in the Void (1923) [pp. 312-314]
121. Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy (1923) [pp. 314-316]
The Challenge of Modernity
XIX. From Dada to the New Objectivity: Art and Politics
193. Carl Einstein, Otto Dix (1923) [p. 490-491]
Changing Configurations of Culture
XXV. Cinema from Expressionism to Social Realism
261. Curt Rosenberg: Fredericus Rex (1923) [p.621-622]
The Transformation of Everyday Life
XXVII. Visions of Plenty: Mass Consumption, Fashion, and Advertising
280. Boycott of French Fashion Goods (1923) [p. 658-659]
Supplemental Readings [photocopies supplied by instructor]
A. A.J. Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler, Chapter 8: Toward Recovery, pp. 93-104 & Chapter 9: The Semblance of Stability: 1924-1929, pp. 105-119.
B. Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, Chapter 6: The Revenge of the Father: Rise and Fall of Objectivity, pp. 119-145.