Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall

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Cambridge University Press, 17. 1. 2013 - Počet stran: 312
Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly.
 

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WEIMAR BERLIN
19
Dr Z Ernst Landesarchiv
36
Risk isolation and unstable selfhood 25
42
Flexibility authenticity and consumption
59
Reform scandal and extremism
73
O Hagemann
79
NAZI BERLIN
101
Willi Nitschke
117
Stefan Arczysnki Landesarchiv
169
POSTWAR AND COLDWAR BERLIN
181
Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations
212
Martens Landesarchiv Berlin
217
Werner Hoffmann Landesarchiv
233
Antitotalitarianism domesticity and ambivalent modernity
240
B Sass Landesarchiv Berlin
241
Conclusion
265

Jewish Berliners ambiguous quest for agency
133
Bureau for Jewish Emigrants 1935 Ullsteinbild
139
Heroism Withdrawal and privatist loyalty
156
Bibliography
278
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Moritz Föllmer is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. His previous publications include Die Verteidigung der bürgerlichen Nation: Industrielle und hohe Beamte in Deutschland und Frankreich, 1900-1930 (2002).

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