Revolutionizing Weimar Germany's Public Sphere Main Menu Path 1: Have a look! Flip through a few pages of "Germany, Germany above All" Path 2: Discover the Functional Montage on your own! Using "Schöne Zeiten" Path 3: Step-by-Step Guide - How does the Functional Montage work? How does the Functional Montage work? Path 4: Film Montage, Industrial Montage, Photomontage and the Functional Montage (Extending the Photomontage "Das Parlament") Path 5: Develop your own Dynamic View! GG's last part is on "Heimat/Homeland" - How does the Functional Montage work for you? Path 6: Comparisons of several Functional Montages "Vorrede", "Schöne Zeiten", "Nie Allein" and "Heimat" Path 7: Comparisons to Tucholsky's Photo Reportages in Magazines AIZ and Freie Welt Path 8: Discover all Photographs related to the Working Class

Introduction

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This Scalar book allows you to explore Kurt Tucholsky's and John Heartfield's Germany, Germany Above All (GG) (1929), particularly its text-image-combinations and montage sequences. These combinations of previously published texts and photographs showcase the extended potential of the genre of the photo book and allow the (implied) worker-reader to find a double role: To this end, DD becomes a, as a I call it, second-order photo book. By that I mean that it builds on those photo books produced in the 1920s, i.e. what I call first-order photo book, that aimed to showcase the new possibilities of photo-text combinations and interactions on a book's page or double page and how these interactions and uses of the page layout could readers to be come more visually literate. 
Building on these first-order photo books, Tucholsky and Heartfield re-use previously published texts and photographs taken by others to not only create juxtapositions between (several) texts and photographs, but to also create what I call functional montages that mimic or imitate the workers' daily perspective and engagement with the assembly line only to challenge this view by the end of the photo book, asking workers to develop a dynamical, adaptable perspective (and thus elevating them to the status of a potential counter public). 

​You will be able to choose between 6 different paths to explore the photobook's text-image-combinations and functional montages, developing your own dynamical view of these text-image combinations.  

Path 1: Discover the Functional Montage on your own! (Using "Schöne Zeiten")
Path 2: Step-by-Step Guide: How does the Functional Montage work? (Using Programmatic 2nd preface "Vorrede")
Path 3: From the Photomontage to the Functional Montage - Extending the Photomontage "Das Parlament" 
Path 4: Develop your own Dynamical View: GG's last part is on "Heimat/Homeland" - How does the Functional Montage work for you?
Path 5: Comparisons of several Functional Montages - "Vorrede", "Schöne Zeiten", "Nie Allein" and "Heimat"
Path 6: Comparisons to Tucholsky's Photo Reportages in Magazines - AIZ and Freie Welt
Path 7: Discover all Photographs related to the Working Class

This page has paths:

  1. Revolutionizing the Public Sphere in the Weimar Republic - The Invasion of the Worker Verena Kick

Contents of this path:

  1. Path 2: Discover the functional montage
  2. Path 3: Extending the photomontage "Das Parlament"
  3. Path 4: Comparisons of several functional montages
  4. Path 5: Comparisons to photo reportages in magazines
  5. Path 6: Discover all photographs related to the working class