Recommended Retail Price
CHF** SFr.76.90EURD** €72.23EURA** €72.84EUR* €60.70GBP* £49.00USD* $78.95
Show Less
Konsum und Imagination- Tales of Commerce and Imagination
Das Warenhaus und die Moderne in Film und Literatur- Department Stores and Modernity in Film and Literature
Godela Weiss-Sussex and Ulrike Zitzlsperger
Das Warenhaus war über Deutschland hinaus bis in die 1930er-Jahre einer der kulturgeschichtlich bedeutendsten Ansatzpunkte für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Moderne und der Konsumkultur. Die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Bandes zeigen sowohl den Facettenreichtum des Warenhaus-Diskurses in der Literatur, dem Feuilleton, in Musicals und im Film als auch die Bandbreite der teils sozial-und kulturkritischen, teils fortschrittsorientierten Thematisierungen auf. Dabei kommen Romane von Zola, Brecht und Fallada sowie Schriften weniger bekannter Autoren zur Sprache. Das emanzipatorische Potenzial des Warenhausthemas findet ebenso Beachtung wie waren- und konsumästhetische Strategien, die in Literatur, Film und anderen Medien reflektiert werden.
Until the 1930s department stores provided, in Germany as elsewhere, one of the focal points of cultural and critical engagement with modernity and consumer culture. The authors of this volume explore the diversity of the discourse on department stores in literature, the feuilleton, musicals and film. They demonstrate the scope of the discourse from cultural criticism to more progress-oriented examinations of the theme. Novels by Zola, Brecht and Fallada are discussed, as well as writings by lesser known authors. Attention is paid to the emancipatory potential of department stores as well as to the aesthetics of consumption as reflected in literature, film and other media.
Until the 1930s department stores provided, in Germany as elsewhere, one of the focal points of cultural and critical engagement with modernity and consumer culture. The authors of this volume explore the diversity of the discourse on department stores in literature, the feuilleton, musicals and film. They demonstrate the scope of the discourse from cultural criticism to more progress-oriented examinations of the theme. Novels by Zola, Brecht and Fallada are discussed, as well as writings by lesser known authors. Attention is paid to the emancipatory potential of department stores as well as to the aesthetics of consumption as reflected in literature, film and other media.
Show Summary Details
„Noch nie in einem Warenhaus gewesen, Kind?“ – Literarische Interventionen in das ‚Warenhaus-Wissen‘ am Ende der Weimarer Republik
Extract
Abstract
This article explores uncanonized imaginations of the department store in the late Weimar Republic. The analysis of nine prose texts by Braune, Breitbach, Georg, Gleit, Kessel, Roth and Wolf is complemented by discussion of Schiffer’s and Spoliansky’s popular Berlin musical theatre shows. The article introduces the texts’ broader and gender politics and their (dis)continuities vis-à-vis established department store tropes and genre conventions. The analysis shows that the texts often contain irreconcilable perspectives regarding the position of women, as well class and Jews. The conclusion scrutinizes the power of a feminized discourse that establishes the spaces within which the Weimar department store can enter literature. It also shows how department store stories function as a medium to intervene in contemporary antisemitism.
Im Gegensatz zu frühen kulturkritischen Phantasmagorien haben Warenhaustexte der Weimarer Republik bisher relativ wenig Beachtung gefunden. Klaus Strohmeiers Befund, nach Zola gebe „es kaum noch nennenswerte belletristische Literatur zum Warenhaus“,1 ist schwer haltbar. Auch wenn das Warenhaus 1928 noch immer weniger als fünf Prozent des Einzelhandels ausmachte, hatte es dennoch nichts von seiner Faszination eingebüßt. Die Breite zeitgenössischer Warenhausdiskurse reichte von den antisemitischen Nazi-Pamphleten der „Kampfgemeinschaft gegen Warenhaus und Konsum“2 über die zahlreichen Imaginationen ‚kleiner‘ ← 67 | 68 → Verkäuferinnen im Film, Chanson oder in der populären Buch-Serie Süße Geschäftsmädels. 3
You are not authenticated to view the full text of this chapter or article.
This site requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books or journals.
Do you have any questions? Contact us.
Or login to access all content.