Föllmer, Morritz
The book 'Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall' traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. Morritz Föllmer is associate professor in History.
The book shows that the demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, under all five regimes of the period and in very different circumstances. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and it could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. Liberal democracy only prevailed in the course of the 1950s, when it was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism.
Individuality and Modernity in Berlin: Self and Society from Weimar to the Wall
- Morritz Föllmer
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
- ISBN 978 11 07 03098 5