Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck: Nordic Days, 1920–1960

Erika L. Briesacher

doi:10.5771/9781498585026

Summary

In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation. Focusing on institutional records as well as public discourse and material artifacts, the author traces the mobilization of “Nordic” as a distinctly German in-group during the Weimar, Nazi, and early Cold War eras, highlighting particular ways participants included and excluded racial, religious, and other cultural identities in their own “imagined community.” Focusing on the festival as both a site of participation and consumption, the author assesses two postwar periods as well as the legacy of the Holocaust in a northwest German town.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8501-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8502-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 194
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Background and Contexts No access
2. Interpretive Frameworks No access
3. Organization and Structure No access
4. Notes No access
1. To Hold or Not to Hold—The Early Stages of Planning No access
2. Formulating the Festival No access
3. Festival Planning in Cultural Context No access
4. Notgeld and Nordische Woche No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Lead-Up to Nordische Woche No access
2. Staging Spaces No access
3. Ads and Pricing No access
4. Nordische Woche in Text No access
5. Nordische Woche in Word and Deed No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Early Nordische Gesellschaft, Identity, and Economic Tension No access
2. The Interference of Hyperinflation No access
3. The Rentenmark, Stabilization, and a Renewed Nordische Gesellschaft No access
4. Outreach and Cultural Activities No access
5. Polarizing German Society and the Turn of the Decade No access
6. The Nazis, Gleichschaltung, and Early Nazi Policy No access
7. Acceleration: the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht No access
8. Notes No access
1. Hamburg’s Nordische Woche, 1938 No access
2. Waging Total War No access
3. The Final Days of War and Capitulation No access
4. British Occupation and Preparing for the Nuremberg Trials No access
5. Diplomacy, Law, and Local Concerns No access
6. Denazification No access
7. Notes No access
1. Zonal Conflict, the Border, and Postwar Diplomacy No access
2. The Centrality of Checkpoints No access
3. West Germany Emergent and the Uneven Economic Miracle No access
4. Nordische Tage 1953 No access
5. Nordische Tage 1954 No access
6. The Last Nordische Tage No access
7. Leaving Nordische Tage Behind No access
8. Notes No access
1. Note No access
1. Digital and Manuscript Sources No access
2. Printed Primary Sources No access
3. Secondary Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 187 - 192
About the Author No access Pages 193 - 194