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

Title:

Author:

Herzog, Todd.

Personal Author:

Herzog, Todd.

Publication Information:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Physical Description:

viii, 169 p. : ill.

Series:

Monographs in German history ; v. 22

Monographs in German history ; v. 22.

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.

Subject Term:

National characteristics, German -- 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.

Geographic Term:

Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933.

Genre:

Electronic books.