A comprehensive reconsideration of the myth of Goethe's Weimar, occasioned by the 1999 celebrations of Goethe's 250th birthday.
The 1999 celebrations of Goethe's two hundred and fiftieth birthday and the city's designation as Culture City of Europe give rise to this comprehensive look at the myth of Goethe's Weimar and the ways it has been packaged. Some of the most prominent North American Germanists have delved into archives and forgotten texts to reveal a troubled locus of culture, commodification, and ideological projection. Goethe's presence in Weimar receives new currency in explorations of consumer culture and the fashioning of bourgois taste; women artists and the market; portrait busts and their display practices; Anna Amalia and musical collaboration; masquerades and cross-dressing; Göchhausen and the Weimar Grotesque; Goethe's views on soldiering and acting; propaganda and human rights.
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The volume abounds in new insights and discoveries about the culture and activities of Weimar courtly and bourgeois high-society (for example music practices, the Weimar theater, masked balls, the commercial production of plaster busts with which to adorn the home, the very influential local fashion magazine, etc.) and illuminates the participation of numerous lesser-known figures in the creation of what came to be known as Classical Weimar.--Thomas P. Saine, editor, GOETHE YEARBOOK 'The book offers an interesting and extensive amount of material which will stimulate considerable further research.' MONATSHEFTE '[ A] lively and entertaining collection of essays.' GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS 'The collection offers a myriad of Cultural Studies approaches and demonstrates their importance for the re-examination of historical periods. ... A central contribution to German eighteenth-century studies.' GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW 'Unpacks the dense signifying network of a familiar cultural constellation to reval a plethora of exciting insights. * GOETHE *
Preface vii Abbreviations of Works, Journals, and Archives Frequently Cited ix Introduction Like a Box of Chocolates... 1(14) Simon Richter Selling Weimar by the Kilo Goethe®. Advertising, Marketing, and Merchandising the Classical 15(21) Burkhard Henke Weimar Classicism and the Origins of Consumer Culture 36(29) Daniel Purdy Weimar and the Senses Floating Heads: Weimar Portrait Busts 65(32) Catriona MacLeod Music in Weimar circa 1780: Decentering Text, Decentering Goethe 97(50) Annie Janeiro Randall Performativity and Transgression in Weimar War and Dramaturgy: Goethes Command of the Weimar Theater 147(19) Karin Schutjer From Werther to Amazons: Cross-Dressing and Male-Male Desire 166(25) Susan E. Gustafson Women in Weimar Sartorial Transgressions: Re-Dressing Class and Gender Hierarchies in Masquerades and Travesties 191(22) Elisabeth Krimmer Women Writers and the Authorization of Literary Practice 213(20) Linda Dietrick The Hunchback of Weimar: Louise von Gochhausen and the Weimar Grotesque 233(40) Susanne Kord Wrapping Up the Weimar Myth Creation and Constipation: Don Carlos and Schillers Blocked Passage to Weimar 273(22) Stephanie B. Hammer Skeletons in Goethes Closet: Human Rights, Protest, and the Myth of Political Liberality 295(15) W. Daniel Wilson The Weimar Myth: From City of the Arts to Global Village 310 Gert Theile
SUSANNE KORD is Professor of German at University College London and has published widely on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies), women's literary history and reception, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has received 6 major awards for her writing. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. Her major works include Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2013), Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (McFarland, 2018). Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard's meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2022. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.
