In a Cold Crater

In a Cold Crater

Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945-1948

Barry, Kelly; Schivelbusch, Wolfgang

University of California Press

06/2024

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Preface
List of Abbreviations

1. The Prize

Metropolis of Debris and the Pathos of Destruction
Albert Speer's Theory of Ruins * "Upright to an Astonishing
Degree" * Berlin Lessons of the 1920s: Joseph
Goebbels and Franz Biberkopf ? Historical Precursors
in the Occupation of Prize Cities: Jerusalem, Paris, Shanghai
* Berlin and the World Revolution * British American
Plans for Conquest * Drawing Borders and
the Balance of Power * Sixty Days of Undivided
Russian Sovereignty

1930: YEAR OF CRISIS
The Laboratory of Modernity * The Intellectual
Cold War before 1933

"A MECHANICAL DECONGESTANT"

The Benefit of Destruction for Modern Architecture The
Crater and the Garden

"DREAMLAND"

Real Surrealism, 1918 and 1945 * "Scenery from
the Wrong Play"-Hotel Abyss in the Abyss *

Conjuring the 1920s * Rich Opportunities,
Meager Productions

CULTURAL COMMANDO

Allied Satraps * Officer Intellectuals A Reminiscence:
German Cultural Politics in Paris, 1940-1944
French Complexes * The English Model:
Reschooling the Boers The American Model:
Reschooling the South * German Exiles Russian
"Kulturnost" NEP Dandies in the SMAD

2. Kulturkammer

The House on Schliiterstrasse Reichskulturkammer *
The Ernst Group * Debuts: Elisabeth Dilthey, Klemens
Herzberg, Alex Vogel * Otto Winzer and Paul Wegener
Fortune Hunters, Functionaries, Dignitaries Affairs
Between Union, Club, and Academy The End

3. Theater Battles

Aesthetic Islands in the Third Reich: The Staatstheater
and the Deutsches Theater * Jiirgen Fehling *
The Rise and Fall of Gustav von Wangenheim *
The Shadow of Gustaf Griindgens * Wolfgang
Langhoff and the Apparatus

4? Kulturbund

Beginnings in Dahlem * Neo-Popular Front * The
Initator: Johannes R. Becher * The Bourgeois Partner:
Ferdinand Friedensburg * Physical and Spiritual
Exile * Media, Assemblies, Clubs Figureheads *
Opposition from the Right Opposition from the Left
Fistfight in Wilmersdorf * The American Ban *
Friedenburg's Last Attempt Friedenburg's Expulsion
Move to the Russian Sector * A Postmortem of SED *
Intellectuals

5? Radio

"The Bear Purrs" A Fresh Start with Old Voices *
Russian Enclave in the English Sector * The Western
Response: DIAS and RIAS * Franz Wallner-Baste
Ruth Norden New Deal Liberals Anticommunists
Mr. Brown * Enter William Heimlich Musical
Politics * From High Culture to Entertainment *
Radio Berlin: Heinz Schmidt and the Last Levy of the
Nondogmatic SED

6. Film

The Chaos of the Ufi Legacy * Private Initiatives *
Film Plans in the Kammer * Wolf von Gordon and
Theodor Baensch * The Central Administration for
Popular Education * The Filmaktiv * Herbert Volkmann
* Alfred Lindemann, Communist Adventurer
and Organizer * Defa under Lindemann * Plans for
Germany ? Lindemann's Fall
HOLLYWOOD-BERLIN
Film-Industry War Goals and Military-Government
Policies * Erich Pommer's Appointment * Return
to Berlin * "The Rich Tradition of Poverty and
Ingenuity" Hollywood Attacks * The Vining
Document * Washington Intervenes

7? Writers at Large

The Press Quarter in Summer 1945-Peter de
Mendelssohn and Hans Habe * Erik Reger *
The Tagesspiegel * "Of the Highest Standards"
A Frankfurter Rundschau for Berlin?
The Schweinichen Case

KURTZ
The Curious Nacht-Express * The Miinzenberg
Model * Rudolf Kurtz and Paul Wiegler
The Mysterious Major Feldmann

DIE WELTBUHNE
The First Round: Walther Karsch * Maud von
Ossietzky, Hans Leonard, & Co. ? Party Loans
Impediments and Delays * Authors and Colleagues
in the First Year

HARICH
Wolfgang Harich, Friedrich Luft, and the Brucke
Project * Harich vs. Leonard * The Widow Ousted

Epilogue
Appendix: Archives and Interviews
Notes
Index of Names
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