Why Weimar?

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 Gärnter: 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 Différend - Phyllis Lambert: Holocaust Memorials. Distanced Memories: Site/Community/Meaning - Gregory Baum: Catholics in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich 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

The Editors: The four editors, Peter M. Daly, Hans Walter Frischkopf, Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber, and Horst Richter are members of McGill University's Department of German Studies. They have considerable experience in teaching and research on questions relating to German language, literature, culture, and history.