Note from Dan Fogel: The bibliography that follows was prepared in 2006 by Dr.
Jennifer Benner for a senior-level capstone course for history majors at the
University of Washington, History 498, Weimar Germany. She is the first-person
“I” in sentences like the opening of the second paragraph, below; the annotations
provided for some of the items in the bibliography express her recommendations,
judgments, and perspectives. Although the bibliography was prepared for advanced
undergraduates, it contains a wealth of information, some of which may prove
useful for your work on Berlin: City of Stones.
Selected Bibliography-Weima r Germany
The literature on Weimar is vast and ever growing; below are some of the more often
cited English language sources, though the list is by no means comprehensive. Peukert' s
The Weimar Republic, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook and Kolb's The Weimar
Republic all have excellent bibliographies that are organized thematically--you
should peruse these to find potential sources and get an idea of what topics have
good supporting literature. Willet's Art and Politics has extensive information on
Weimar art, architecture, music, and theatre, emphasizing the political left.
I also highly recommend searching library databases and H-German, http://www.hnet.org/ german/, to find reviews of books and abstracts of articles. While reading a
review is not a substitute for reading the book, it may help you decide which secondary
sources you want to use and how to think about them. Another useful strategy is to find a
very recent book or article on your topic and peruse the footnotes and/or bibliography.
After you choose your secondary books it is helpful to read two or three reviews of each.
Sources that are bolded are highly recommended.
Germany - General:
Fulbrook, Mary. A Concise History of Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990, 1994.
Fulbrook, Mary. The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991.
Jarusch, Komad H. & Michael Geyer. Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories.
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003.
This is an attempt to write the history of the German 20th century without
following the traditional chronological divisions and breaks of 1914, 1919, 1933, 1945,
& 1989. Chapter 3, "Modernization, German Exceptionsalism, and Post-Modernity:
Transcending the Critical History of Society" is useful for tracing the Sonderweg and
its critics. Chapter 5, "The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship,
and Democracy" discusses comparisons of the Nazi dictatorship with the East German
state (GDR). The final chapter "The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and
Civility" considers seeing Germany as "a site of an unusual accumulation of some
general problems of modernity" (368). This book also has extensive footnotes, useful
for locating additional sources.
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Orlow, Dietrich. A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present. (5th edition) Boston:
Boston University, 2002.
Von Saldern, Adelheid. The Challenge of Modernity: German Cultural Studies, 18901960. Translated by Bruce Little. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2002.
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Primary Source Literature and Criticism:
(This is but a tiny selection -please explore more on your own.)
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and
other essays in Illuminations.
Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Art and Politics. Edited by Thomas Kuhn and Steve Giles;
part 5 edited by Stephen Parker, Matthew Philpotts and Peter Davies; translations
- by Laura Bradley, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn. London: Methuen, 2003.
[PT2603 .R397 B7 33 2002]
Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now? Trans. Simon & Schuster, 1933. Reprint,
Chicago: Chicago Academy Publishers, 1983.
Translation of Kleiner Mann, was nun? 1933.
Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writingsfrom Being and Time (1927) to The Task of
- Thinking (1964). Edited, with general introd. and introductions to each selection
by David Farrell Krell. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
[B3279.H47 E5 1977]
Heidegger, Martin. Contributions to philosophy. translated by Parvis Emad and
Kenneth Maly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
[B3279. H48 B44513 1999]
Heidegger, Martin. An introduction to metaphysics. Translated by Ralph Manheim
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959.
[BD33l.H4313]
Keun, Imgard. The Artificial Silk Girl. Kathie von Ankum, trans., with an
introduction by Maria Tater. New York: Other Press, 2002.
Translation of Das kunstseidene Mddchen (1932).
Jiinger, Ernst. The Storm of Steel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.
[D640 .1693 1929]
Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg, ed. The Weimar Republic
Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
This is the single best source for primary documents in English translation,
covering a wide variety of topics. The book also includes brief editorial introductions,
helpful mini-biographies of key figures, a timeline, and a bibliography. The selections are
generally too short to serve as one of your major sources, but can point you in some
interesting directions. For example you might decide to search out longer pieces by Rosa
Luxemburg, Thomas Mann, Ernst Jlinger or Ernst Troetlsch, just to name a few.
[DD240 .W3927]
Kracauer, Sigfried. The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, ed. & trans. Thomas Y.
Levin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Kracauer, Sigfried. The Salaried Masses.
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McEUigott,Anthony. The German Urban Experience 1900-1945: Modernity and
Crisis. London & New York: Routledge, 2001.
·
Like the Weimar Republic Sourcebook, offers brief primary source selections with ·
commentary that may help point you towards a research topic. Good bibliography.
Peters, Jurgen, ed. German Writings Before and after 1945. New York: Continuum,
2002.
[PT1308 .G47 2002]
Includes pieces by Ernst lunger and Irmgard Keun.
· Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on tlie Western Front.
Translation of Im Westen Nichts Neues (1929).
Rosenberg, Art.bur. The Birth of the German Republic, 1871-1918. Translated from
the German by Ian F. D. Morrow. New York,: Oxford University Press, 1931.
[DD220. R62]
Rosenberg was·an ancient historian·who went from being a nationalist to a
committed communist after the war.
Rosenberg, Arthur. A History of the German Republic. Translated by Ian F. D.
Morrow and L. Marie Sieveking. London: Methuen, 1936.
[943.085 R723gE]
Roth, Joseph. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933, trans. Michael Hoffman.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003.
[DD866 :R6813 2003]
You may also want to check out some of Roth's Weimar novels.
Schmitt, Carl. Political Romanticism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.
[JA4.E9 S3313 1986]
Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1996.
[JA74 .S313 1996]
Sombart, Werner. The Jews and modern capitalism. translated by M. Epstein, with an
introd. to the American ed. by Bert F. Hoselitz. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1951.
[323.1 So52jE 1951]
Sombart, Werne.r.A new social phi losophy. Translated and edited by Karl F. Geiser.
Princeton: Princeton University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University
Press, 1937.
[335 So5dE]
Translation of Deutscher Sozialismus.
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Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West.An abridged ed. by Helmut Werner ;
English abridged ed. prepared by Charles Francis Atkinson; with a new
introduction by H. Stuart Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
[CB83 .s63 1991]
Spengler, Oswald. Selected Essays. Chicago: H. Keghery Co., 1967.
[DD67. S64]
Weimar Artists: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius (architect),
George Grosz, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Jeanne Mammen, Ernst Toller
Significant Weimar Era Films Available at UW libraries: All films are in German
with English inter and subtitles. Many have been remade - check the year of original
release. Listed dates of release can vary by a year or two, these are the dates given on
www.filmportal.de. Bolded are on reserve; films marked * are available from NetFlix.
* Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) 1919/1920, dir. Robert
Wiene ,
[DVD IEF 030 or DVD KINO 022 -preferred]
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (Golem: How He Came into the World) 1920, dir.
· Paul Wegener
[DVD KINO 030]
* Nosferatu 1921, dir. Fredrick W. Murnau
[VIDEORE REP 006 or DVD TAC-624 -request from Tacoma]
Die Nibelungen, parts I & II. 1922, dir. Fritz Lang
[DVD KINO 034]
* Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) 1924, dir. Fritz Lang
* Metropolis 192511926, dir. Fritz Lang
[DVD UKB 001 -optional German inter-titles or DVD KINO 050 -preferred for
quality of transfer; includes optional commentary and a making-of documentary]
* Berlin. Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City) 1927
[DVD IEF 027 or VIDEORECORDING KINO 102]
Die Biichse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) 1928/1929
[VIDEO HOR 183]
* Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) 1929/1930, dir. Josef von Sternberg
.
[VIDEO ALAE 002]
Menschen am Sonntag 19291930
[VIDEO FAC 085 - with French inter-titles]
Westfront 1918 1930
[VIDEO TAC-1322 -request from Tacoma]
Based on the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen.
Die 3-Groschen-Oper (The Three-Penny Opera) 1030/1931, dir. G.W. Pabst
[VIDEO VDIM 004]
Based on the play by Bertolt Brecht with music by Kurt Eisler.
* M 1931, dir. Fritz Lang
[DVD CRIT 018]
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Madehen in Uniform. 1931
- [VIDEO HOV 094]
Kuhle Wampe oder Wern gehort die Welt? (or To Whom does the World Belong?)
1931/1932, dir. Statan Dudow
[VIDEO BFIV 001-PAL format, need to watch in library]
"The only communist film to come out of Weimar Germany;" screenplay cowritten by Brecht, music by Eisler.
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·
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Some Useful Websites:
www.zum.de/psm/ probably has the largest selection of primary sources in both German
and English. Note: when browsing the website "p" stands for primary and "s" for
secondary sources, "m" for materials.
\\:v.rw.gennanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org has documents (in English), maps and images. The
site is still under construction however, and unfortunately the Weimar section is still
pretty sparse.
www3.baylor.edu/ C_Brady/pathfinder has links to German history resources. There are
several sites like this out there -but this one seems to have been updated most recently.
www.dhm.de The Deutsches Historisches Museum website features a "living museum"
with brief (German) histories of distinct periods in German history. Click on "LeMO"
from the homepage; other sections of the website are available in English.
www.polunbi.de "Datenbank Schrift und Bild 1900-1960" features biographies,
photographs and documents in German.
www.documentarchiv.de has documents in German from the 19th century to the present
day.
www.filmportal.de has detailed information on thousands of German-produced films
from -1895 to the present; some content is available in English.
www.deutsches-filminstitut.de is the site of the German film archive and has lots of
information on silent and early films.
Other:
Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human
Condition Have Failed. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998.
Part II of this book, "Transforming Visions," and especially the chapter
"The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis," explores how utopian
plans from the Left (Communism, Socialism) have failed. Could be an
interesting counterpoint to Reactionary Modernism.
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