Living the German Revolution 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses

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Living the German Revolution 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses

Veranstalter
Christopher Dillon (King’s College London), Christina von Hodenberg (German Historical Institute London), Steven Schouten (University of Amsterdam), Kim Wünschmann (LMU München)
Veranstaltungsort
German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
18.10.2018 - 20.10.2018
Website
https://www.ghil.ac.uk/home.html
Von
Kim Wünschmann, LMU München

The German Revolution of 1918–19 marks a historical turning point at which, following the catastrophe of the Great War, soldiers and civilians rose up to overthrow the German Empire’s political and military leadership. The approaching centenary offers a timely occasion to re-evaluate its contested history and memory by focussing on the socio-cultural realm of expectations, experiences and responses. The German Revolution was a key event in the era of seismic transnational upheaval which shook Europe between 1916 and 1923. An advanced industrial economy with the most powerful organised labour movement in the world, Germany was practically, strategically and symbolically critical to competing visions of the future in this new age of revolution. ‘The absolute truth’, wrote Lenin, ‘is that without revolution in Germany we shall perish’.

The conference, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, re-evaluates the history of the German Revolution by shifting attention to the practices and agency of protagonists and stakeholders also beyond the political elites. It seeks to explore the subjective dimension of the events and to investigate the diverse expectations, experiences and responses of Germans old and young, female and male, rural and urban, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish.
The conference’s new perspective will register, among other topics, the revolution’s popular mobilisation and societal penetration, its impact on everyday life, its destruction of inherited patterns of authority, its generation of new affiliations, boundaries and cultural expressions, and its complex and contested legacy for the Weimar Republican project.

Benjamin Ziemann (Sheffield) will deliver the conference’s keynote address entitled ‘History in the Active Voice: Rethinking the German Revolution 1918/1919’. The lecture will be held as a public event. Please email Carole Sterckx by 16 October 2018 to secure your place: sterckx@ghil.ac.uk

For the conference as a whole there will be a limited number of seats available for additional participants and registration is required. If you are interested in attending the conference please contact Kim Wünschmann: Kim.Wuenschmann@lmu.de

Programm

Thursday, 18 October 2018

13:30 Arrival and registration
14:00-14:15 Welcome and Introduction by the organisers

14:15-16:00
Panel I: Living at Revolutionary Flashpoints
Chair: Adam Sutcliffe (London)
Wiebke Wiede (Trier): The Wilhelmshaven Revolts 1917-1919: Social Conditions and Experiences of the Revolution on a Naval Base
Christina Lipke (Hamburg): Everyday Life in revolutionary Hamburg 1918/19
Christopher Dillon (London): Varieties of Revolutionary Experience in Provincial Bavaria

16:00-16:20 Tea & Coffee

16:20-18:00
Panel II: Perspectives on Revolutionary Violence
Chair: Mark Hewitson (London)
Anita Klingler (Edinburgh): Attitudes to political violence in early interwar Britain and Germany: Glasgow and Munich, 1919
Thomas Blanck (Cologne): Revolutionary States of Exception: Urban Violence in Munich and Fiume, 1918-20
Mark Jones (Berlin/Dublin): 100 Jahre Novemberrevolution: Reflections upon the centenary of Germany's 'forgotten revolution'

18:30-20:00
Keynote Address
Chair: Christina von Hodenberg (London)
Benjamin Ziemann (Sheffield)
History in the Active Voice:
Rethinking the German Revolution 1918/1919

Friday, 19 October 2018

09:30-11:30
Panel III: Women and the German Revolution
Chair: Christopher Dillon (London)
Ingrid Sharp (Leeds): Beyond Rosa Luxemburg: Women in the German Revolution 1918/19
Corinne Painter (Leeds):
Writing the Revolution: Lola Landau and Cläre Jung
Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam): Understanding socialist women’s perspectives on violence and the revolution: Germany, 1918-1920

11:30-12:00 Tea & Coffee

12:00-13:30
Panel IV: German Jews and the Revolution
Chair: Steven Schouten (Amsterdam)
Kim Wünschmann (Munich): Hopes and Fears: Responses of German Jews to the 1918/19 Revolution
Daniel Siemens (Newcastle): Headstone of Emancipation? The Revolution of 1918/19 and the German Jews

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00
Panel V: Emotions and the Chronicling of Revolutionary History
Chair: Sebastian Gehrig (London)
Christina Morina (Amsterdam): The Republic at Last! Political and Emotional Responses to the Advent of Democracy in 1918/19
Nadine Rossol (Essex): Writing about a Revolution: Emotions and Agency of young People in the German Revolution 1918/19

16:00-16:30 Tea & Coffee

16:30-18:00
Panel VII: The Churches and the Revolution
Chair: Jim Bjork (London)
Ulrike Ehret (Munich):
Impious Hopes? Catholic Experiences of the Revolution 1918/1919 in Munich
Benedikt Brunner (Mainz): An unsettled Church? The German Revolution and its Implications for a New Order of the Protestant Churches in Germany

Saturday, 20 October 2018

09:00-10:30
Panel VII: Publishing Houses, Culture and Education
Chair: Paul Moore (Leicester)
Margarete Tiessen (Cambridge): ‘Fateful Enormities’: The Berlin Publishing House S. Fischer and the German Revolution
Steven Schouten (Amsterdam): Laboratory for Cultural Renewal: The 1918/19 German Revolution and the Foundation of the Waldorf School

10:30-11:00 Tea & Coffee

11:00-12:30
Panel VII: Revolutionary Ideas and Practices
Chair: Kim Wünschmann (Munich)
Darrow Schecter (Sussex): The German Revolution, Council Democracy and Radical Constitutional Theory
Andrew Donson (Amherst): Arbeitsunlust: A Social and Economic Analysis of the ‘Reluctance to Work’ in Germany, 1918/19

12:30-14:00
Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Steven Schouten (Amsterdam)
Discussants: Anthony McElligott (Limerick), Andrew Donson (Amhurst), Christina Morina (Amsterdam), Nadine Rossol (Essex)

Kontakt

German Historical Insitute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ

Kim.Wuenschmann@lmu.de

https://www.ghil.ac.uk/home.html