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Title:

Practicing modernity : female creativity in the Weimar Republic / edited by Christiane Schönfeld ; in collaboration with Carmel Finnan.

Publisher:

Königshausen & Neumann,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xviii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

German literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women authors, German.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Germany.
Motion pictures--Germany--History.
Women artists--Germany.
Women--Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Other Authors:

Schönfeld, Christiane.
Finnan, Carmel, 1958-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Vicky Baum and Gina Kaus: female creativity on the margins / Luisa Soares. Masculine territories? Women and the theories of the Avant-Garde / Christina Ujma -- The camera in the kitchen: Grete Schütte-Lihotsky and domestic modernity / Thomas Elsaesser -- "What's in the shadow of a Bauhaus block?" Gender issues in classical modernity / Anja Baumhoff -- Representing herself. Lotte Laserstein between subject and object / Dorothy Rowe -- Between minor sculpture and Promethean creativity. Käthe Kollwitz and Berlin's women sculptors in the discourse on intellectual motherhood and the myth of masculinity / Ute Seiderer -- Between challenge and conformity. Yva's photographic career and œuvre / Carmel Finnan -- Talking films: writing skills and film aesthetics in the work of Thea von Harbou / Karin Bruns -- A successful outsider: Leni Riefenstahl's career before Hitler / Jürgen Trimborn -- Lotte Reiniger and the art of animation / Christiane Schönfeld -- The blonde lady sings. Women in Weimar cabaret / Alan Lareau -- "Jede Frau ist eine Tänzerin..." The gender of dance in Weimar culture / Isabel Capeloa Gil -- Anna Seghers, Irmgard Keun: literary images on emancipation and social circumstance / Birgit Maier-Katkin -- Gabriele Tergit and Berlin: women, city and modernity / Christina Ujma -- Versions of the literary self in texts by Marieluise Fleisser / Carmel Finnan -- Else Lasker-Schüler versus the Weimar publishing industry: genius, gender, politics, and the literary market / Jennifer Redmann -- A dramatist at "Weimar's End": contrasted heroines in two plays by Ilse Langner / John Warren -- Vicky Baum and Gina Kaus: female creativity on the margins / Luisa Soares.

ISBN:

9783826032417
3826032411

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71336738

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)