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Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany (Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism)

by Bernd Widdig (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

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Synopsis

For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 290
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 13 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0520222903
ISBN 13: 9780520222908

Media Reviews
A landmark study.... Widdig's energetic account uses an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how economic anxieties were powerfully symptomatic of larger social and cultural issues. - Maria Tatar, author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany Bernd Widdig displays sharp intelligence and uncommon wit in this brilliant study of culture and inflation. Following the explosions in politics and culture that the inflation detonated from the end of World War I to the rise of the Nazis, this book is a bold and original mediation on modernity and money and the trauma of oblivion. It is a masterful, illuminating analysis. - Peter Fritzsche, author of Reading Berlin 1900
Author Bio
Bernd Widdig is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the MIT-Germany Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Mannerbunde und Massen: Zur Krise mannlicher Identitat in der Literatur der Moderne(1992).