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• List of illustrations-- List of contributors-- List of abbreviations-- Chronology-- In search of German culture: an introduction Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will--
• 1. The citizen and the state in modern Germany Peter Pulzer--
• 2. German national identity John Breuilly--
• 3. Elites and class structure Hans-Georg Betz--
• 4. Jews in German society Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Hofig--
• 5. Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society Eva Kolinsky--
• 6. Critiques of culture Andrew Bowie--
• 7. The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture Wilfried van der Will--
• 8. The development of German prose fiction Martin Swales--
• 9. Modern German poetry Karen Leeder--
• 10. German drama, theatre and dance Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley--
• 11. Music in modern German culture Erik Levi--
• 12. Modern German art Irit Rogoff--
• 13. Modern German architecture Iain Boyd Whyte--
• 14. German cinema Martin Brady and Helen Hughes--
• 15. The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television Holger Briel-- Index.
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One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture - including national identity, class, Jews in German society, minorities and women, the functions of folk and mass culture, poetry, drama, theatre, dance, music, art, architecture, cinema and mass media - from the nineteenth century to the present. Guidance is given for further reading and a chronology is provided. In its totality the Companion shows how the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany are intertwined with cultural genres and their agendas of creative expression.
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• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• THE ISSUE
• VISION
• SKY AGLOW
• SUN ON SUNS
• SPRING
• DEALER
• AESTHETE
• SCRIBBLER
• MADAM
• SPIRIT
• STORM
• PHANTASMS
• WINDS
• FEVER
• SODOMIA
• SUN CHILD
• SHOWTIME
• PALACE REVOLUTION
• STORIES
• SAILOR BOY
• CERTIFIERS
• CAVEAT EMPTOR
• FAME
• SOURCE
• ALARUM
• ALEXANDERPLATZ
• COUP
• SURREALITY
• SENSATION
• RAVENS
• EVIDENCE
• CELA N'EST PAS ...
• PRESENT SENSE
• SEANCE
• SCRIPTS
• SEQUENCE
• ETCETERA
• PLUS ÇA CHANGE ...
• APPRECIATION
• EXPERTS
• PROOF
• SOUL
• SUMMATIONS
• SENTENCE
• APPEAL
• SYNONYMS
• SYMBOL
• SOPHIENSTRASSE
• REAPER
• NIGHT LIGHT
• STUDIO SANARY
• CRIME SCENE
• MENDER
• SCHEHEREZADE
• WALL
• OUR WEIMAR
• MANIA
• EPILOGUE
• NOTES
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PHOTO CREDITS
• INDEX
• Backmatter.

Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.
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In Modris Eksteins' hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh's work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs - over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness - that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery. Filled with characters who delight and frighten, "Solar Dance" merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.
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• Grußwort / Julius H. Schoeps
• Walther Rathenau im Netzwerk der Moderne / Sven Brömsel, Patrick Küppers, Clemens Reichhold
• Walther Rathenau, das Netzwerk und die Moderne : Einführung / Dieter Heimböckel
• Walther Rathenau und Robert Musil : eine Konstellation / Karl Corino
• Walther Rathenau über Entfremdung und Regierung der Massen / Clemens Reichhold
• Walther Rathenau und Karl Radek : die gescheiterte Emanzipation Im Verhandlungszimmer / Christian Schölzel
• "Der Judenrepublik gewidmet" : der Rathenau-Brunnen im Volkspark Rehberge und die früheren Berliner Projekte für ein Rathenau-Denkmal / Ursel Berger
• "Wie lange noch, o Catilina?..." : Joseph Roths Reportagen über den Prozess" gegen die in die Mordaffäre Rathenau verwickelten Personen" / Volker Mergenthaler
• "Höre, Israel!" Im Netzwerk der Moderne / Steffi Bahro
• Walther Rathenaus Pionierrolle in den Diskursen über das Nachhaltigkeltsproblem der Moderne / Hans Dieter Hellige
• Rathenaus Kunstauffassung zwischen Moderne und Antimoderne / Patrick Küppers
• Rathenaus blockierter Weg in die Politik / Wolfgang Michalka
• "Der Kaufmann und der Künstler" : Walther Rathenau und Stefan Zweig / Jasmin Sohnemann
• Geistmenschen unter sich : Walther Rathenau und der Salon Bruckmann / Wolfgang Martynkewicz
• Freundschaft mit dem Bohemien Hanns Heinz Ewers / Sven Brömsel
• Rathenau erzählen / Martin Sabrow
• Anhang
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Über die Autorinnen und Autoren
• Personenregister.