Tag: First World War
Raphaela Edelbauer: "The Incommensurables": Secret codes from the Lumpenproletariat
How does the manipulation of the masses work – and how does one relate to it? Raphaela Edelbauer’s brilliant novel “The Incommensurables” about the outbreak of war in 1914. source…
Was the hyperinflation of 1923 really such a lasting trauma? – Business
It was the time when bundles of banknotes were burned because you couldn’t do anything else with them. It was the time when an egg cost 300 billion marks, when…
100th anniversary of Jaroslav Hašek’s death: Invention of the national hero Švejk – culture
Are we a people of Švejks? Whenever Czechs think about their nation, their identity or just the current politics, this question is asked. We are a people of Schwejks, one…
“Karl Kraus Handbook” by Metzler. Review by Jens-Malte Fischer. – Culture
“I am megalomaniac: I know that my time will not come,” Karl Kraus formulated as early as 1908. Even in his last years it seemed as if his prediction would…
Nothing New in the West on Netflix; Mud fight – culture
Erich Paul Remark was at the front in Flanders for only a few weeks, as a young recruit in July 1917. He was then wounded and spent the rest of…
Bavaria: Where do the weapons from the state parliament come from? – Bavaria
The Bavarian state parliament is currently being extensively renovated, and when President Ilse Aigner guided the press over the large construction site a good two months ago, from the basement…
Who still reads Ernst Jiinger today? Especially men – culture
Ernst Jiinger was not a wimp. “He took cold baths every morning until old age, which was hard on him,” Rudolf Augstein stated admiringly in his obituary. The resilient attitude…
Ernst Jiinger’s diaries from the post-war period – culture
Ernest Younger died in 1998 at the age of 103. He consciously experienced almost the entire 20th century, and his extensive, varied work reflects the ruptures of the century’s ideologies.…
Russian mobilization – culture – SZ.de
How fortunate that the 20th century is over. In the 20th century, mobilization in Europe was almost always the penultimate stage of escalation, it was the step that almost inevitably…
Border crossers: The life of the forgotten orientalist Karl Süssheim. – Politics
Personnel files do not forget anything, in which the Munich University documents the shame. “At my invitation, Prof. Süssheim came to see me today,” Rector Leo Zumbusch recorded on May…