Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency
of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity. This …

The opening lines of Marlene Dietrich's 1933 hit, Allein in einer großen Stadt, give an
impression of life in a big city with which many would have been familiar in the first decades …

Wilhelmine Germany had a powerful economy and, after 1898, began construction of a fleet
to challenge Great Britain's global power. This article analyses Germany's cultural “will to …

In the i89os, the shifting role of women in Ger man society became an issue of fundamental
im portance.'Not only were feminists demanding political representation and a more …

This dissertation examines the diverse images of women in Wilhelmine visual culture to
demonstrate the ways these depictions transformed the modern German woman into a …

Though established near the end of the age of exploration and empire, after its formation in
1898, the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (the German Oriental Society or DOG) quickly …

This study reintroduces the early-twentieth-century Austrian author Gustav Meyrink (1868-
1932) and situates his literary oeuvre at the intersection of literature, religion, and popular …

In the 1920s and 30s, when architectural trends married the figurative research of the avant-
garde to the logic of standardization and industrial production, Central Europe experienced …

Kladderadatsch, the weekly German magazine of social and political satire, was Germany's
longest-lived magazine of that genre, preceding and outliving its later competitor …

In 1917 the writer Gustav Meyrink was the target of attacks in the German media. Nationalist
critics, dismayed by the skyrocketing success of Meyrink's 1915 novel Der Golem, had …