Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic
Carpe Mundum analyzes German Youth culture during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Each chapter addresses a distinct topic: sex educational materials for young people, the language of the censorship debates, novels dealing with war, historical narration, magazines, popular science and science fiction, radio, and sports. Together the themes illustrate the influence of nineteenth-century holistic thinking in popular culture in early twentieth-century Germany. Public policies and institutions governing German youth culture during the Weimar Republic, including education and social welfare, evince spiritual underpinnings of Naturphilosophie - a movement which promoted the unity of all things. As cultural modernity in Germany enabled young people greater participation in shaping their culture, elements of a modernity of youth emerged as distinct from that of the adult world and its ideologically laden system of values. The essence of youthful modernity in Germany as evident most clearly in popular magazines, radio, and sports rests primarily on spontaneity, ingenuity and camaraderie.
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Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic
Carpe Mundum analyzes German Youth culture during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Each chapter addresses a distinct topic: sex educational materials for young people, the language of the censorship debates, novels dealing with war, historical narration, magazines, popular science and science fiction, radio, and sports. Together the themes illustrate the influence of nineteenth-century holistic thinking in popular culture in early twentieth-century Germany. Public policies and institutions governing German youth culture during the Weimar Republic, including education and social welfare, evince spiritual underpinnings of Naturphilosophie - a movement which promoted the unity of all things. As cultural modernity in Germany enabled young people greater participation in shaping their culture, elements of a modernity of youth emerged as distinct from that of the adult world and its ideologically laden system of values. The essence of youthful modernity in Germany as evident most clearly in popular magazines, radio, and sports rests primarily on spontaneity, ingenuity and camaraderie.
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Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic

Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic

by Luke Springman
Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic

Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic

by Luke Springman

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Carpe Mundum analyzes German Youth culture during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Each chapter addresses a distinct topic: sex educational materials for young people, the language of the censorship debates, novels dealing with war, historical narration, magazines, popular science and science fiction, radio, and sports. Together the themes illustrate the influence of nineteenth-century holistic thinking in popular culture in early twentieth-century Germany. Public policies and institutions governing German youth culture during the Weimar Republic, including education and social welfare, evince spiritual underpinnings of Naturphilosophie - a movement which promoted the unity of all things. As cultural modernity in Germany enabled young people greater participation in shaping their culture, elements of a modernity of youth emerged as distinct from that of the adult world and its ideologically laden system of values. The essence of youthful modernity in Germany as evident most clearly in popular magazines, radio, and sports rests primarily on spontaneity, ingenuity and camaraderie.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631562444
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 03/20/2007
Series: Kinder- und Jugendkultur, -literatur und -medien: Theorie - Geschichte - Didaktik , #50
Pages: 306
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Author: Luke Springman is an Associate Professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Contents: German youth – Weimar Republic – German juvenile literature – Youth culture – Popular culture – Sex education in Germany – Censorship in Germany – German war novels – German science fiction – Early radio in Germany – Sports in German children’s literature.
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