Moderate Modernity : The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy. / Jochen Hung

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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. "Germany's Most Modern Newspaper" -- Tempo, Ullstein, and the Late Weimar Republic -- Chapter 1. 1928-1929: Banging the Drum for Democracy -- "Every Day a Race against Time!" Technology, Speed, and Sachlichkeit in Tempo -- Forging Rational Citizens: Tempo's Definition of Democracy -- Young Germans as Consumer-Citizens: Representations of Modern Masculinity and Femininity -- Chapter 2. 1930-1931: Adapting to the Crisis -- Consuming against the Crisis: Tempo's Vision of a German Consumer Society after 1930 -- Technology vs. the Soul: Tempo's Discourse of Technology and Speed after 1930 -- Citizen-Consumers during a Time of Crisis: Tempo's Construction of Modern Masculinity and Femininity after 1930 -- Chapter 3. 1932-1933: "Nobody but Ourselves Can Save Us" -- "We Vow to Be Happy!" Consumption as Duty in 1932 -- The Political Appeal of Slowness: Technology and Speed during the Crisis -- The Oldest Guard Leads the Way: Constructions of Modern Masculinity and Femininity in 1932 -- 30 January 1933: Ullstein under Hitler -- "Everybody Will Have Their Own Car!" Dreams of a Volkswagen in Tempo -- Youthful Pessimism: Young Men and Women under Chancellor Hitler -- The End of Tempo -- Conclusion: Creative Adaptations of Modernity in the Interwar Period -- Bibliography -- Index.