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

The Weimar Republic (19181933) 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 the...

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Prif Awdur: Herzog, Todd
Fformat: Printed Book
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Cyfres:Monographs in German history ; v. 22.
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245 1 0 |a Crime stories :  |b criminalistic fantasy and the culture of crisis in Weimar Germany /  |c Todd Herzog.  |h English 
260 |a New York :  |b Berghahn Books,  |c 2009. 
300 |a viii, 169 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Monographs in German history ;  |v v. 22 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-163) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a The Weimar Republic (19181933) 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 
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651 0 |a Germany  |x Intellectual life  |y 20th century. 
651 0 |a Germany  |x Social conditions  |y 1918-1933. 
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