Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowlegments
- Introduction
- 1 The Paterfamilias Is Brought onto the Stage and Becomes a Rich Man with Ideas
- 2 War Breaks Out in a Park, and Herr Deutsch Comes to the Aid of His Fatherland
- 3 The Family Gathers Its Experiences, and Pitt Does Not Understand How to Steer His Ship through the Inflation
- 4 Now, to Discuss the Fourteenth Year after the End
- 5 Parents Sink, and Little Children Have Big Worries
- 6 Politics Makes a Shocking Encroachment
- 7 The One Most Able to Survive Pulls New Hope Out of Chaos
- 8 Max Escapes into Love
- 9 A Summer Day Comes to an End
- 10 Life Has So Many Aspects
- 11 Jürgen Finds Something in Lausanne That He Did Not Seek
- 12 Herr Deutsch Once More Calls Himself to Order, and Then There Are More Flashes of Lightning
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowlegments
- Introduction
- 1 The Paterfamilias Is Brought onto the Stage and Becomes a Rich Man with Ideas
- 2 War Breaks Out in a Park, and Herr Deutsch Comes to the Aid of His Fatherland
- 3 The Family Gathers Its Experiences, and Pitt Does Not Understand How to Steer His Ship through the Inflation
- 4 Now, to Discuss the Fourteenth Year after the End
- 5 Parents Sink, and Little Children Have Big Worries
- 6 Politics Makes a Shocking Encroachment
- 7 The One Most Able to Survive Pulls New Hope Out of Chaos
- 8 Max Escapes into Love
- 9 A Summer Day Comes to an End
- 10 Life Has So Many Aspects
- 11 Jürgen Finds Something in Lausanne That He Did Not Seek
- 12 Herr Deutsch Once More Calls Himself to Order, and Then There Are More Flashes of Lightning
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- What Will Become of the Children?A Novel of a German Family in the Twilight of Weimar Berlin, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010