Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany: Sport, Spectacle and Political Symbolism, 1926-36

Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany challenges the notion that the Nazis invented the use of aesthetics for the staging of their mass events. Instead, the book argues that the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s should be considered as a whole with regard to the development of political aesthetics and festive culture. A stress on rhythm, moving bodies, shapes and community already characterised mass events in the republic and strongly influenced festivities, parades, sporting e...