Living the German Revolution, 1918-19 Expectations, Experiences, Responses

by Dillon, Christopher; Wünschmann, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780198898207
• ISBN10: 0198898207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Christopher Dillon, Senior Lecturer in Modern German History, King's College London,Kim Wünschmann, Director, Institute for the History of the German Jews

Dr Christopher Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at King's College London. His research focuses on Bavaria during the Weimar and Nazi periods, with particular interest in the history of political culture, gender, and violence. He studied for his Ph.D. at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of an AHRC-funded project on the pre-war National Socialist concentration camps. His publications include the monograph Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence (Oxford University Press, 2015). Christopher is currently writing a socio-cultural history of the 1918-19 revolution in Bavaria.

Dr Kim Wünschmann is Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. She obtained her Ph.D. from Birkbeck, University of London and subsequently held positions at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, and LMU Munich. Her research centres on Holocaust Studies, European-Jewish history, legal history, and comic studies. Publications include: Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (Harvard University Press, 2015), awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, and co-written with Stefanie Fischer the forthcoming Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past. A Graphic History (Oxford University Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Historicizing the German Revolution of 1918-19, Christopher Dillon and Kim Wünschmann
2. The Missing Comedy and the Problem of Emplotment: New Perspectives on the German Revolution of 1918-19, Benjamin Ziemann
Part I: Living at Revolutionary Flashpoints
3. 'The revolutionary flame burns also in the provinces': The Bavarian Revolutions of 1918-19, Christopher Dillon
4. An Experience of Extremes: The Revolution in Wilhelmshaven, 1917-19, Wiebke Wiede
5. 'As long as people are dancing, they are happy': Everyday Life and Leisure in Revolutionary Hamburg 1918-19, Christina Ewald
Part II: Revolution as Lived Experience and Emancipation
6. Arbeitsunlust: No Desire to Work in the November Revolution, Andrew Donson
7. Ambivalent Expectations in Times of Crisis: The Revolution of 1918-19 and the German Jews, Daniel Siemens
8. History beyond the Script: Rethinking Female Subjectivities and Socialist Women's Activism during the German Revolution of 1918-19 and its Immediate Aftermath, Matthew Stibbe, Corinne Painter, and Ingrid Sharp
Part III: Institutional Mediations of Revolution
9. 'Fateful enormity': The Berlin Publishing Firm S. Fischer and the German Revolution, Margarete Tiessen
10. An Unsettled Church: Experiences of Revolution and Planning for the Future in German Protestantism, 1918-20, Benedikt Brunner
11. 'Christian Government' vs. 'Jewish Revolution': Antisemitism and Catholic Responses to the 1918-19 Revolution in Munich, Ulrike Ehret
Part IV: Revolutionary Violence in Perspective
12. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mobilization? Political Funerals in November 1918, Mark Jones
13. Attitudes to Political Violence in Early Inter-War Britain and Germany: Maintaining Law and Order in Glasgow and Munich, 1919, Anita Klingler
14. Revolutionary Violence in Munich and Fiume, 1918-20, Thomas Blanck
Index