Revolutionizing Weimar Germany's Public SphereMain MenuPath 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 MagazinesAIZ and Freie WeltPath 8: Discover all Photographs related to the Working ClassVerena Kick 1d32e4579dc15a1815e8d60cddf98a623f5bf4a3
Germany, Germany Above All "The Parliament" Page 1
12018-07-30T03:12:31-07:00Verena Kick 1d32e4579dc15a1815e8d60cddf98a623f5bf4a3260931Germany, Germany Above All "The Parliament" Page 1plain2018-07-30T03:12:32-07:00Critical Commons1929ImageDeutschland, Deutschland über AllesKurt Tucholsky and John Heartfield2018-07-30T03:09:40ZVerena Kick 1d32e4579dc15a1815e8d60cddf98a623f5bf4a3
This is the photo that is paired with Tucholsky's poem titled "Das Parlament". A member of the German parliament is superimposed over a photograph of he German Reichstag so that it appears the man is about to fall asleep on top of the Reichstag. Some commentaries identify this politician as chancellor (Reichskanzler) Hermann Müller. The poem by Tucholsky refers to the elections in May 1928. The arrangements of the single verses let the stanza appear in a similar visual manner as the shape of the politician's legs. Thus, both on the level of content - the inertia of the sleeping politician is met by the inertia of the voting public "is ja janz ejal" / "forget it" - and on the visual level the photomontage gets extended. Now, there is a visual montage between the shape of the politician's legs and the shape of the three stanzas.
While the photomontage is certainly able to symbolize the inertia of the Weimar Republic, the photo-text-montage not only provides further information and context for readers, but it also teaches them to read photographs and to see texts; and it urges them to start seeing the photomontage and the text not as single entities anymore, but as a montage.