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Criminalistic fantasy :Imagining crime in Weimar Germany (Alfred Doeblin, Peter Kuerten, Fritz Lang).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Criminalistic fantasy :
Reminder of title:	Imagining crime in Weimar Germany (Alfred Doeblin, Peter Kuerten, Fritz Lang).
Author:	Herzog, Harold R. (Todd), III.
Description:	221 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sander L. Gilman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0185.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Germanic.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3000415
ISBN:	0493088008

Criminalistic fantasy :Imagining crime in Weimar Germany (Alfred Doeblin, Peter Kuerten, Fritz Lang).
Herzog, Harold R. (Todd), III.

Criminalistic fantasy :Imagining crime in Weimar Germany (Alfred Doeblin, Peter Kuerten, Fritz Lang).[electronic resource] - 221 p.

Adviser: Sander L. Gilman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2001.

Part One, “Writing the Criminal,” examines the role that the case history plays in distinguishing criminal from non-criminal. I focus on the series “Außenseiter der Gesellschaft - die Verbrechen der Gegenwart” and its attempt to re-think the aims and possibilities of the genre of the criminal case history. I then turn to Alfred Döblin's two major “crime stories,” <italic>Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord</italic> and <italic>Berlin Alexanderplatz</italic>, examining their notions of causality and techniques of narrating a criminal case.

ISBN: 0493088008Subjects--Topical Terms:

212424
Literature, Germanic.

Criminalistic fantasy :Imagining crime in Weimar Germany (Alfred Doeblin, Peter Kuerten, Fritz Lang).
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520 # $a Part Two, “Seeing the Criminal,” examines the process of criminal investigation and the crisis in the ability to distinguish the criminal from the non-criminal through the use of visual evidence. I argue through a discussion of criminological and criminalistic texts that 19<super>th</super>-century methods of visual distinction (criminal anthropology and detective work) had broken down by the 1920s, resulting in a paranoid belief in omnipresent and invisible danger. I then turn to the case of Peter Kürten and Fritz Lang's cinematic re-working of the case, <italic>M</italic>, which I read as an attempt to work through this crisis and apply new techniques of mass mobilization and surveillance. I conclude with a brief sketch of later developments of the Weimar “criminalistic fantasy” under National Socialism and in the post-War period.
520 # $a This study examines a crucial moment in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science: Germany during the Weimar Republic (1918–1933). What happens in this period, I argue, is that the use of evidence to distinguish the criminal from the non-criminal goes into crisis and the process of distinction itself consequently becomes a matter of investigation. The dominant factor at work in what I have, following Bernhard Weiß, come to call the Weimar “criminalistic fantasy” was therefore not primarily the discursive construction of a criminal Other, but rather that the means deployed in this construction (such as case histories, judicial trials, and visual stereotyping) themselves went into crisis. This crisis is registered in the explosion of interest in the subject of criminality during this period, and my project examines a wide range of fictional and non-fictional texts, as well as visual evidence.
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