Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects

Kathleen Canning is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, Women's Studies, and German at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (2nd ed., University of Michigan Press 2002) and Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press 2006). She is currently a board member of Central European History and the Journal of Modern History. Kerstin Barndt is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Sentiment und Sachlichkeit. Der Roman de Neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik(Bohlau 2004) and several articles on German modernism, gender theory, and the history of reading. Her current book project Exhibition Time. History, Memory, and Aesthetics in Germany focuses on contemporary exhibition culture against the backdrop of national unification, migration, and deindustrialization. Kristin McGuire is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan and co-Director of the Global Feminisms Project based at the University of Michigan. She is the co-author of Global Feminisms through a Virtual Archive (SIGNS 2010). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Activism, Intimacy and Selfhood which offers a comparative historical analysis of women activists in Germany and Poland from 1890-1918; and co-editing a volume of translated essays entitled Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality: An Anthology of European Women's Writings, 1880-1920. Cover image: Marianne Brandt, Es wird marschiert(1928)

" - taken together [these articles]provide an excellent and stimulating introduction to current ways of thinking and writing about the Weimar Republic since the 'cultural turn'. A common theme running through each contribution is the role of individual consciousness and its striving to be heard and expressed in an age when notions of community and collective struggle were also high up on the artistic and political agenda." * German History

• List of Illustrations Preface List of Contributors Introduction Kathleen Canning PART I: DEFEAT AND THE LEGACY OF WAR Chapter 1. The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War Anton Kaes Chapter 2. The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada Brigid Doherty Chapter 3. The Secret History of Photomontage: on the Origins of the Composite Form and the Weimar Photomontages of Marianne Brandt Elizabeth Otto PART II: NEW CITIZENS/NEW SUBJECTIVITIES Chapter 4. Mother, Citizens, and Consumers. Female Readers in Weimar Germany Kerstin Barndt Chapter 5. Claiming Citizenship: Suffrage and Subjectivity in Germany after the First World War Kathleen Canning Chapter 6. Feminist Politics beyond the Reichstag: A Radical Vision of Reform in the Weimar Republic Kristin McGuire Chapter 7. Producing Jews: Maternity, Eugenics, and the Embodiment of the Jewish Subject Sharon Gillerman PART III: SYMBOLS, RITUALS AND DISCOURSES OF DEMOCRACY Chapter 8. Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic Manuela Achilles Chapter 9. High Expectations - Deep Disappointment: Structures of the Public Perception of Politics in the Weimar Republic Thomas Mergel Chapter 10. Contested Narratives of the Weimar Republic: The Case of the "Kutisker-Barmat Scandal" Martin Geyer Chapter 11. Political Violence, Contested Public Space, and Reasserted Masculinity in Weimar Germany Dirk Schumann PART IV: PUBLICS, PUBLICITY AND MASS CULTURE Chapter 12. "A Self-Representation of the Masses": Siegfried Kracauer's Curious Americanism Miriam Hansen Chapter 13. Neither Masses Nor Individuals. Representations of the Collective in Inter-War German Culture Stefan Jonsson Chapter 14. Cultural Capital in Decline:Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals Bernd Widdig PART V: WEIMAR TOPOGRAPHIES Chapter 15. Defining the Nation in Crisis: Citizenship Policy in the Early Weimar Republic Annemarie Sammartino Chapter 16. Gender and Colonial Politics after the Versailles Treaty Lora Wildenthal Chapter 17. The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany Peter Fritzsche Bibliography Index