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Zusatztext this fine study fruitfully combines legal, political and cultural history, demonstrating the centrality of performance in legal proceedings. Informationen zum Autor Henning Grunwald is DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University and teaches modern German and European history. He graduated with first class Honors and received his Ph.D. in 2003, both from the University of Cambridge. Grunwald has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, as Assistant for Academic Strategy to the President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was a Visiting Scholar in Columbia University's Department of History. He has published on the history of the notion of crisis (with Manfred Pfister), on the performativity of justice, and on Holocaust memorialization and European identity. Klappentext Offering a new interpretation of the tens of thousands of political trials that undermined the first German democracy, Henning Grunwald looks for the first time at combative and fiercely committed party barristers who turned dry legal procedure into spectacular clashes of ideology. Zusammenfassung Offering a new interpretation of the tens of thousands of political trials that undermined the first German democracy, Henning Grunwald looks for the first time at combative and fiercely committed party barristers who turned dry legal procedure into spectacular clashes of ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Rosa Luxemburg Trials of 1914 and the Emergence of the Ideal Type of the Weimar Party Lawyer 2: 'Nursing Revolutionary Fighters' and 'Legal SA-Duty': Ten Political Lawyers 3: 'To Fight the Class Struggle with the Bourgeois Courts with all Acridity': The Communist Party Legal Organization 4: The Compliment of Imitation: The Rise (and Rivalry) of National-Socialist Legal Organizations 5: Performing Ideology: Rethinking Weimar Political Justice Conclusion Appendix A: Party allegiance of 36 prominent political lawyers in the Weimar Republic Appendix B: Occupation of 100 lay magistrates in political trials Appendix C: The hierarchy of the German court system Bibliography ...
