LECTURE 05 A: Introduction to Weimar Culture LECTURE 05 B: Weimar Politics and Doeblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz LECTURE 05 C: Doeblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Follow page numbers in book: 216-635
BACKGROUND SURVEY MATERIALS
- Craig:
- 396-433 end of war; revolution; split of left; constitution; Versailles treaty
- 434-456 Weimar economics
- 469-497 Weimar culture
- Berghahn:
REQUIRED BACKGROUND THEMATIC MATERIALS
- FILM: Symphonie einer Grossstadt [Symphony of a Big City]
- Evans, Coming of Third Reich Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (NY: Penguin, 2003), 78-153.
REQUIRED PRIMARY READINGS
- PDF selections from Doeblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Doeblin Synopsis This is a general synopsis of the main plot line of Berlin Alexanderplatz.
- 396-433 end of war; revolution; split of left; constitution; Versailles treaty
- 434-456 Weimar economics
- 469-497 Weimar culture
MAIN THEMES FOR CONSIDERATION
- Modernist Expression/Technique
- Impact of WWI
- Brutalization of Society
- Brutalization of Politics
- Isolation/Alienation of Individual
- Popular Culture
- Urbanization
- Crime
- Decadence
- Weimar Economy/Unemployment
- Anti-Semitism
- Critique of Republic
- Political Disunity/Apathy
- Search for Order
IMAGES
- Rainer Fassbinder's film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz: trailer
- Metropolis Images
- Jeanne Mammen Images
- http://marchese-desade.org/ars/mammen/mammen.htm
- http://www.jeanne-mammen.de/html/english/contents/styleperiods.html
- Josephine Baker Images
- Hannah Hoch Images
- http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhausrath/ci/h%20hoch/
- http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhausrath/ci/h%20hoch/pages/B.%20Cut%20with%20the%20Kitchen%20Kn.htm
- http://www.yellowbellywebdesign.com/hoch/madchen.html
- Fashion images/Bubikopf
- http://www.swr.de/100deutschejahre/folgen/10/pics/bild01.jpg
- http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:QFtEDFrWg3Pe8M:upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/3/36/Louisebrooks.jpg
- Marlene Dietrich
- http://www.leninimports.com/marlene_dietrich_gallery_4.jpg
- http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/e/ee/200px-Marlene-Dietrich.jpg
- Lustmord
- Ute Lemper
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
- For analysis of the film, Symphonie einer Grossstadt, go to Loyola's access to Netlibrary. http://libraries.luc.edu/bin/azlist.cfm?letter=n [right click to open in new window] Enter the Netlibrary. Search for Ankum, Women in the Metropolis : Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. Go to Chapter Three: Anke Gleber,"Female Flanerie and the Symphony of the City" Warning: this will give you an idea of the kind of "theoretical" style of writing that is common in Cultural Studies.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
- For analysis of the film, Symphonie einer Grossstadt, go to Loyola's access to Netlibrary. http://libraries.luc.edu/bin/azlist.cfm?letter=n [right click to open in new window] Enter the Netlibrary. Search for Ankum, Women in the Metropolis : Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. Go to Chapter Three: Anke Gleber,"Female Flanerie and the Symphony of the City" Warning: this will give you an idea of the kind of "theoretical" style of writing that is common in Cultural Studies.
