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Author:

Herzog, Todd. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00036500

Title:

Crime stories : criminalistic fantasy and the culture of crisis in Weimar Germany / Todd Herzog.

Publisher:

Berghahn Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.
National characteristics, German--History--20th century.
Crime in popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
Criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
Crime in literature.
German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Germany--History--20th century.
Crime films--Germany--History--20th century.
Culture populaire--Allemagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Allemagne--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Allemagne--Conditions sociales--1918-1933.
Allemands--Histoire--20e siècle.
Criminalité dans la culture populaire--Allemagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Criminels--Allemagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Criminalité dans la littérature.
Littérature allemande--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)--Allemagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Films criminels--Allemagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Kriminalliteratur.
Kriminologie.
Kultur.
Krise.
Kriminalfall.
Deutschland.
crime - image--culture de masse--culture de masse--Allemagne--République de Weimar.
Crime films.
Crime in literature.
Crime in popular culture.
Criminals.
German literature.
Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature)
National characteristics, German.
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
Germany.
1900 - 1999
20th century--Germany--History--20th century
Crime in literature
20th century--Germany--History--20th century
20th century--Germany--History--20th century
History and criticism--20th century--History and criticism
20th century--Intellectual life--20th century
1918-1933--Social conditions--1918-1933
20th century--Germany--History--20th century
20th century--History--20th century
20th century--Germany--History--20th century
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-163) and index.

Contents:

Crime, detection, and German modernism -- Writing criminals : Outsiders of society and the modernist case history -- Understanding criminals : the cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf -- Seeing criminals : mass murder, mass culture, mass public -- Tracking criminals : the cases of Peter Kürten, Franz Bekert, and Emil Tischbein -- Conclusion: Criminalistic fantasy after Weimar.

Series:

Monographs in German history ; v. 22

ISBN:

1845454391
9781845454395

OCLC:

(OCoLC)232128516

LCCN:

2008052535

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)