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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herzog, Todd
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Monographs in German history ; v. 22.
Subjects:
Popular culture > Germany > History > 20th century.
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.
Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933.
Table of 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.

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