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Liminal lives: trans feminine histories from Weimar and Nazi Germany
Published 2023“…</p> <p>The introduction sets up the current vision we have of trans experiences of Weimar and Nazi Germany by analyzing two enduring photographs. …”
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Heralds of change? On the societal function of Weimar Republic journals, 1918-1933
Published 2016“…<p>This thesis investigates how societal change is represented and negotiated in Weimar Republic journals. I advance the idea that journals serve as unique crystallisations of the negotiation of social change within social communities due to their inherent periodicity, polyphony and materiality. …”
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Ist einer unter Ihnen, der seine ganze Bestimmung noch nicht fühlt
Published 2000“…Firstly, a substantial number of unpublished manuscripts related to Lenz's military reform project, written during his stay in Weimar - widely acknowledged as the 'Wendepunkt' of his career - are edited and analysed for the first time. …”
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Perspectives on the Berlin sound movie operetta (1929-1944): media, technology and reception
Published 2022“…<p>This thesis investigates the sound movie operetta and sound movie hit song genres that developed between 1929 and 1933 in Weimar Germany. Understanding these genres as mediatised, (technologically) mediated phenomena, I explore the ways in which they interacted with audiences such that particular reception attitudes were embedded amongst those audiences. …”
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Consensus in conflict - the making of a common intellectual culture in Germany, c. 1920-1950
Published 2018“…<p>This study analyses intellectual continuities in bourgeois periodicals from Weimar to the early post-war period. Whereas publication bans and censorship in Nazi Germany have been researched in depth, my work focuses on journals that were continuously published from the 1920s to the 1940s and 50s. …”
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The opera fantasias and transcriptions of Franz Liszt
Published 1989“…A more innovative and altruistic choice of material is evident only from the beginning of the Weimar period.</p>…”
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The political attitudes of the German protestant church leadership, November 1918 - July 1933
Published 1969“…<p>This thesis is a study of the policy of the Protestant churhc leadership towards the Weimar Republic and during the first six months of the Third Reich. …”
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The political economy of the interwar years
Published 2014“…As arguably the most interesting and novel result of these analyses is the suggested effect of the granting of voting rights to women, the voting preferences of women are examined more closely in an additional chapter using a unique record of women’s voting from Weimar Germany. This allows for the difference between men and women’s actual voting preferences to be explored, something that is usually impossible due to the use of secret ballots. …”
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The S.A. in the eastern regions of Germany, 1925-1934
Published 1980“…The first offers background, by examining social, economic and political conditions in eastern Germany during the Weimar Republic and then discussing the rise of the Nazi movement there. …”
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‘A minor atlantic Goethe’: W.H. Auden’s Germanic bias
Published 2014“…Chapter One discusses Auden’s engagement with German literature before 1928, his reasons for spending nine months in Weimar Berlin 1928-29, and the formative influence of this experience on his life and work. …”
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Youth and crisis: discourse networks and political mobilisation
Published 2015“…</p> <p>I answer this question through an analysis of the breakdown of the authoritarian Soviet Union during perestroika, the breakdown of unconsolidated democracy during the last years of the Weimar Republic, and the crisis of the democratic regime in France around 1968. …”
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Society and its outsiders in the novels of Jakob Wassermann
Published 2014“…The periods in question are Biedermeier Germany, the Wilhelmine era, the years of the Great War and finally the Weimar Republic, the depiction of all of which reveal Wassermann as a fierce critic of his time. …”
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Reportage in the 'thirties
Published 1992“…</p> <p>The implications of Russian Formalist 'defamiliarization' led to an avant-garde 'literature of fact' in the USSR and Weimar Germany, inspired by John Reed's <em>Ten Days that Shook the World</em>, with the potential not only to represent suppressed facts but to subvert 'automatized' concepts, thus challenging official paradigms defining historically significant data and putting the model of reality constructed by dominant ideology under strain, as the work of the LEF group and Egon Erwin Kisch shows. …”
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The politics of judicial review in inter-war Europe
Published 2021“…</p> <p>Using secondary and primary sources, I test this argument in case studies of three inter-war democracies – Norway, Weimar Germany, and the First Austrian Republic. In the first two countries, left-wing politicians, especially socialists, opposed judicial review for at least some time, whereas Austrian Social Democrats supported judicial review throughout the First Republic. …”
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Theology and university: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Hagenbach, and the project of theological encyclopaedia in nineteenth-century Germany
Published 2014“…Finally, I analyze the project’s downfall in the context of Wilhelmine Germany and the Weimar Republic, beset by radical disciplinary specialization, a crisis of historicism, and the attacks of dialectical theology. …”
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Uncertainties of reason : pragmatist plurality in basic design education
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‘The Indispensable East’ in decadent literature in England and Germany 1880−1920
Published 2018“…It reaches from the high point of Victorian Decadence in the 1880s to high point of Modernism at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1918−1920 in Germany. My central concern is to argue that the East is a major characteristic of <em>fin-de-siècle</em> European Decadence. …”
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