Why Weimar? : Questioning the Legacy of Weimar from Goethe to 1999

Contents: Hans Walter Frischkopf: Preface - Peter M.

Daly: Introduction - W. Daniel Wilson: Why Not Weimar? « Normal German Culture and The Authoritarian State in Classical Weimar - Michael S.

Batts: The Other (Non-Classical) Side of Weimar in Goethe's Time - Markus S.

Schulz: Cultural Politics after Buchenwald: Imagining Weimar - Susanne Frank: Festivalization, Image Politics and Local Identity: The Rollplatz Debate in Weimar, European City of Culture 1999 - Justus H.

Ulbricht: « How One Becomes What One Is. Weimar's Transformation to the « Heart of German Culture 1885-1930 - Andrea Dietrich: The (Last) Fulfilment of Goethe's Will: The Second Extension Building of the Goethe National Museum as a Case Study in the Intersection of Culture and Politics - Marcus Garnter: Weimar/GDR - A Realm of Memory and Its Institutions - Silke Roth: Goethe and Buchenwald: Re-Constructing German National Identity in the Weimar Year 1999 - Alain Findeli: Goethe and the Bauhaus: An Epistemological Inquiry - Theodore Fiedler: Weimar between Modernism and Heimatkunst: Contrary Visions of Cultural Renewal and National Identity at the Turn of the Century - Rosamunde Neugebauer: Myth and Symbolic Topography: Weimar and Berlin in the 1920s - Willi Jasper: Faust and the Germans - David Pugh: Is It Time to Decentre Classicism?

Thoughts on the British Reception of Weimar - Edward T.

Larkin: The Detonation of a Timeless Weimarer Klassik: Thomas Alexander Schmidt's Weimar oder das Ende der Zeit - Peter Rosenbaum: The Buchenwald Memorial and Its Differend - Phyllis Lambert: Holocaust Memorials.

Distanced Memories: Site/Community/Meaning - Gregory Baum: Catholics in the Weimar Republic and the ThirdReich through the Eyes of Walter Dirks - Matthias Konzett: Karl Kraus and Walter Benjamin: Post-Nationalism in Vienna and Weimar Modernism - Arnd Bohm: Marbach vs.

Weimar: Cultural Politics in the Cold War and Beyond - Jay Julian Rosellini: The Right Thinking: Attempts to Revive the Conservative Revolution in the Berlin Republic - Florian Bail: Reflections on the Meaning of the Weimarer Klassik for the Evolving Political Culture of the Berlin Republic.