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Crime stories : criminalistic fantasy and the culture of crisis in Weimar Germany / Todd Herzog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzog, Todd.
- Series:
- Monographs in German history ; v. 22.
- Monographs in German history ; v. 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- National characteristics, German--History--20th century.
- National characteristics, German.
- Crime in popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Crime in popular culture.
- Criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
- Criminals.
- Crime in literature.
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Crime films--Germany--History--20th century.
- Crime films.
- Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public's reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality amo
- 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 Kurten, Franz Bekert, and Emil Tischbein
- Conclusion: Criminalistic fantasy after Weimar.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627644
- 9781282627642
- 1282627643
- 9781845459055
- 1845459059
- OCLC:
- 645101136
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