Jochen Hung
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jochen Hung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jochen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hung |
| SIGNATURE | HUNG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4505-5040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Who has been relegated to the waiting room of Weimar history? While the trope of waiting has long been associated with Weimar culture — indeed, since as far back as Siegfried Kracauer's programmatic essay, ‘Die Wartenden’ (1922) — the term has gained further resonance in the field of postcolonial studies. As Dipesh Chakrabarty argues in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), modern European historical consc…
Bestaat er een Nederlandse geschiedenis van de Weimarrepubliek
Is there a Dutch history of the Weimar Republic? Compared with their British or American counterparts, Dutch historians have shown little interest in Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Republic. This has changed in recent years with studies by Patrick Dassen and Frits Boterman, the first stand-alone works in Dutch on this subject. However, they do not present a particularly Dutch perspective on the Weimar Republic. This article considers what …
Junge Mädchen ” and “Daughters of the Sky”
The difference between the representation of German femininity in the 1920s and the 1930s is striking: while glamorous flappers with bob haircuts ruled the beginning of the interwar period, its end is characterized by serious and earnest—and often longhaired—young women. Rather than taking the obvious route of relating this change to the political changes in Germany, most importantly the rise of the Nazis, this article argues that the changing re…
News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
Even people who do not regularly consume news know The Guardian, the Daily Mail or Fox News and have a pretty clear idea of the political orientation of these media outlets. When it comes to such names as Reuters, Agence France-Presse or Associated Press, however, even well-informed people often only have a very vague idea of what these institutions do and would have even more difficulties identifying their political perspective. News agencies ar…
The ‘Ullstein Spirit’
This article examines the role of the Ullstein company, a liberal publishing house with Jewish roots and one of Germany’s most important cultural producers, in the disintegration and the subsequent historical interpretation of the Weimar Republic. It reconstructs the company’s history before and after the Second World War and retraces the public debate about Ullstein’s political role to arrive at a more balanced picture of the company’s place in …
Bad” Politics and “Good” Culture
More than thirty years ago, Eberhard Kolb commented that the vast wealth of research on the history of the Weimar Republic made it “difficult even for a specialist to give a full account of the relevant literature.” Since then, the flood of studies on Weimar Germany has not waned, and by now it is hard even to keep track of all the review articles meant to cut a swath through this abundance. Yet the prevailing historical image of the era has rema…
The Modernized Gretchen
The ‘New Woman’ was an important part of the culture and society of Weimar Germany, both as a discursive figure and as social reality. However, the interdependencies between these two aspects – the ‘New Woman’ as a media phenomenon and as a lived reality – have not yet been investigated in depth. Using the example of the tabloid newspaper Tempo (1928-1933) and its interaction with its readership, this article sheds light on the ways in which Germ…
Die Konstruktion des offentlichen Sports und seiner Helden in der Tagespresse der Weimarer Republik
Sport, from football to Bavarian finger-wrestling (Fingerhakeln), has a central place in German society: according to the German Olympic Sports Confederation, in 2010 roughly every third German was a member of a sports club. Not surprisingly, considering its social and cultural importance, sport in Germany has always been closely intertwined with the country’s eventful political history, with the gymnastics movement of the nineteenth century, the…
Murder Scenes
Crossing Hitler
Hans Litten, a German-Jewish lawyer, ‘crossed’ Hitler in different ways, not only cross-examining him in one of the most famous trials of the Weimar Republic, but making him angry in the process—and paying the price once the Nazi leader was in power. Litten is relatively unknown in Germany today, even less so in the English-speaking world, and Benjamin Carter Hett's biography represents the first major English-language publication on Litten's lif…
The Modernized Gretchen
The ‘New Woman’ was an important part of the culture and society of Weimar Germany, both as a discursive figure and as social reality. However, the interdependencies between these two aspects – the ‘New Woman’ as a media phenomenon and as a lived reality – have not yet been investigated in depth. Using the example of the tabloid newspaper Tempo (1928-1933) and its interaction with its readership, this article sheds light on the ways in which Germ…
Bad” Politics and “Good” Culture
More than thirty years ago, Eberhard Kolb commented that the vast wealth of research on the history of the Weimar Republic made it “difficult even for a specialist to give a full account of the relevant literature.” Since then, the flood of studies on Weimar Germany has not waned, and by now it is hard even to keep track of all the review articles meant to cut a swath through this abundance. Yet the prevailing historical image of the era has rema…
Crossing Hitler
Hans Litten, a German-Jewish lawyer, ‘crossed’ Hitler in different ways, not only cross-examining him in one of the most famous trials of the Weimar Republic, but making him angry in the process—and paying the price once the Nazi leader was in power. Litten is relatively unknown in Germany today, even less so in the English-speaking world, and Benjamin Carter Hett's biography represents the first major English-language publication on Litten's lif…
Murder Scenes
Die Konstruktion des offentlichen Sports und seiner Helden in der Tagespresse der Weimarer Republik
Sport, from football to Bavarian finger-wrestling (Fingerhakeln), has a central place in German society: according to the German Olympic Sports Confederation, in 2010 roughly every third German was a member of a sports club. Not surprisingly, considering its social and cultural importance, sport in Germany has always been closely intertwined with the country’s eventful political history, with the gymnastics movement of the nineteenth century, the…
The Modernized Gretchen
The ‘New Woman’ was an important part of the culture and society of Weimar Germany, both as a discursive figure and as social reality. However, the interdependencies between these two aspects – the ‘New Woman’ as a media phenomenon and as a lived reality – have not yet been investigated in depth. Using the example of the tabloid newspaper Tempo (1928-1933) and its interaction with its readership, this article sheds light on the ways in which Germ…
The ‘Ullstein Spirit’
This article examines the role of the Ullstein company, a liberal publishing house with Jewish roots and one of Germany’s most important cultural producers, in the disintegration and the subsequent historical interpretation of the Weimar Republic. It reconstructs the company’s history before and after the Second World War and retraces the public debate about Ullstein’s political role to arrive at a more balanced picture of the company’s place in …
Bad” Politics and “Good” Culture
More than thirty years ago, Eberhard Kolb commented that the vast wealth of research on the history of the Weimar Republic made it “difficult even for a specialist to give a full account of the relevant literature.” Since then, the flood of studies on Weimar Germany has not waned, and by now it is hard even to keep track of all the review articles meant to cut a swath through this abundance. Yet the prevailing historical image of the era has rema…
News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
Even people who do not regularly consume news know The Guardian, the Daily Mail or Fox News and have a pretty clear idea of the political orientation of these media outlets. When it comes to such names as Reuters, Agence France-Presse or Associated Press, however, even well-informed people often only have a very vague idea of what these institutions do and would have even more difficulties identifying their political perspective. News agencies ar…
Junge Mädchen ” and “Daughters of the Sky”
The difference between the representation of German femininity in the 1920s and the 1930s is striking: while glamorous flappers with bob haircuts ruled the beginning of the interwar period, its end is characterized by serious and earnest—and often longhaired—young women. Rather than taking the obvious route of relating this change to the political changes in Germany, most importantly the rise of the Nazis, this article argues that the changing re…
Bestaat er een Nederlandse geschiedenis van de Weimarrepubliek
Is there a Dutch history of the Weimar Republic? Compared with their British or American counterparts, Dutch historians have shown little interest in Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Republic. This has changed in recent years with studies by Patrick Dassen and Frits Boterman, the first stand-alone works in Dutch on this subject. However, they do not present a particularly Dutch perspective on the Weimar Republic. This article considers what …
Introduction
Who has been relegated to the waiting room of Weimar history? While the trope of waiting has long been associated with Weimar culture — indeed, since as far back as Siegfried Kracauer's programmatic essay, ‘Die Wartenden’ (1922) — the term has gained further resonance in the field of postcolonial studies. As Dipesh Chakrabarty argues in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), modern European historical consc…
European history and politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · German (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Weimar Republic (5 works) · Economic history (3 works) · German History and Society (3 works)