NACKTHEIT ALS KULTUR

EMPIRE OF ECSTASY

ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20663-2
Writer: Karl Toepfer
Title: Empire of Ecstasy
Subtitle: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935
Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 13
Language: English
Place of Publication: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
Publisher: University of California Press
Year of Publication: 1997
Format: 159x240mm
Pages: xvii+422 printed on alkaline paper
Illustrations: 86 black and white plates and pictures
Jacket Design: Nola Burger
Jacket Illustration: Dancer at the Elisabeth Estas School, Cologne, 1927. Photographer unknown.
Binding: Red cloth spine and boards in colour dust jacket
Original Price: N/A
Weight: 1,037gr.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars: nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents this dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of “modern identity,” which stimulated often contradictory impulses, desires, and ambitions in participants and enthusiasts.

Radiating modernity, freedom, and power, the body appeared to Weimar artists and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy that resisted containment within particular fields of study of cultural doctrines. Most provocative about the body culture of the Weimar Republic was its insistent belief in the human body as a sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious “inner” conditions. Indeed, modernity of being depended less upon the rationalization of life than upon the appearance of the “modern” body.

Toefper suggests that this view of the modern body sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy. Through the presentation and analysis of unpublished archival material (including many little-known photographs) and the reclamation of forgotten discourses of fashion, gymnastics, nudism, and the visual arts, he investigates the process of constructing an “empire” of appropriative impulses toward ecstasy. Toepfer presents the work of well-known figures such as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as many obscure but equally fascinating practitioners of German body culture. His book is to become required reading for historians of dance, body culture, and modernism.

SCHÖNHEIT AND FREUDE

ISBN-10: 3-88312-001-4
Writer: Jürgen Wulf
Title: Schönheit und Freude
Subtitle: Magnus Weidemann als Aktphotograph
Preface: Dr. Manfred Wedemeyer
Language: German
Place of Publication: Kiel
Publisher: Verlag Schmidt & Klaunig
Year of Publication: 1986
Format: 190x237mm (trimmed)
Pages: 64 printed on glossy paper
Illustrations: 58 black and white plates
Binding: Paperback in single colour printed wrappers
Original Price: N/A
Weight: 239gr.

DIE FREIKÖRPERKULTUR 1928

11

MANAGING THE BODY

ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928052-0

Writer: Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska

Title: Managing the Body

Subtitle: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain, 1880-1939

Language: English

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Year of Publication: 2011 (reprint)

Format: 162x239mm

Pages: xi+394

Illustrations:15 black and white pictures

Front Cover Photograph: Bathers at the Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, London, May 1932 © Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Binding: Hardcover in duotone printed covers

Weight: 737gr

Entry No.: 2012003

Entry Date:19th January 2012

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Managing the Body explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939. It analyses the growing popularity of hygienic regimen or body management such as dietary restrictions, exercise, sunbathing, dress reform, and birth control to cultivate beauty, health, and fitness. These bodily disciplines were advocated by a loosely connected group of life reform and physical culture promoters, doctors, and public health campaigners against the background of rapid urbanization, the rise of modern lifestyles, a proliferation of visual images of beautiful bodies, and eugenicist fears about racial degeneration.

Zweiniger-Bargielowska shows that body management was an essential aspect of the campaign for national efficiency before 1914. The modern nation state needed physically efficient, disciplined citizens and the promotion of hygienic practices was an integral component of the Edwardian welfare reforms. Anxieties about physical deterioration persisted after the First World War, as demonstrated by the launch of new pressure groups that aimed to transform Britain from a C3 to an A1 nation. These military categories became a recurrent metaphor throughout the interwar years and the virtuous habits of the healthy and fit A1 citizen were juxtaposed with those of the C3 anti-citizen, whose undisciplined lifestyle was attributed to ignorance and lack of self-control. Practices such as vegetarianism, nudism, and men's dress reform were utopian and appealed only to a small minority, but sunbathing, hiking, and keep-fit classes became mainstream activities and they were promoted in the National Government's 'National Fitness Campaign' of the late 1930s.

AU PAYS DE HOMMES NUS

Writer: Louis-Charles Royer
Title: Au Pays des Hommes Nus
Language: French
Place of Publication: Paris
Publisher: Les Editions de France
Year of Publication: 1929
Format: 119x178mm
Pages: 216 printed on low quality newsprint
Illustrations: 19 black and white plates and pictures printed on matt art paper
Binding: Brown cloth spine – lettering on the spine sun-faded and green boards without the original wrappers
Weight: 311gr.
Original Price: N/A
Entry No.: 2012002
Entry Date: 19th January 2012

DIE SCHÖNHEIT XXV.9

DIE SCHÖNHEIT XXIII.7

Τitle: Die Schönheit, Heft 7 XXIII. Jahrgang, 1927
Subtitle: 3. Liebesheft
Subtitle: Monatsschrift für Kunst und Leben
Publisher: R. A. Giesecke, Verlag der Schönheit, Dresden
Editors: Wilm M. Burghardt (Die Schönheit) & Ernst Schürmann (Licht-Luft-Leben)
Language: German
Country of Origin: Germany
Format: 172x245mm (trimmed)
Pages: (volume continuous pagination) 88 single colour including covers) as follows:
(classified section), 97-112 printed on newsprint; (main section), 305-352 printed on matt art paper; xxv-xviii printed on matt art paper (advertisements), and 97-112 printed on newsprint including the monthly newsletter „Licht-Luft-Leben“ together with „Der Mensch“
Illustrations: 31 black and white plates, pictures and sketches
Front Cover Sketch: „Grieche und Amazone“ von Hilde Kupfer
Frequency: Monthly
Binding: Thread-stitched magazine
Weight: 170gr.
Single Copy: M.1.50
Subscription rates: (3 issues) M. 7.50
 

CONTENTS / INHALT  „DIE SCHÖNHEIT“

(306) Vom schöpferischen Eros von Ernst Wachler
(316) Macht und Liebe der Theodora von Byzanz von Heinrich Stadelmann
(317) Liebe
(325) Macht des Eros 6. Zweifel von Ernst Wachler
(329) Macht des Eros 7. Gesang von Ernst Wachler
(338) Nini von Kurt Hotzel
 

CONTENTS / INHALT

 „LICHT – LUFT – LEBEN“  / „DER MENSCH“,

Monatsschrift für Schönheit / Geist / Körperbildung XXIII. Band  Heft 7

(97) Mittelalterlicher Liebeskodex
(98) Vorgeburtliche Erziehung von O. Gisevius
(100) Elkana und seine Frauen von W. Deuter
(103) Schönheitsbund
(104) Verschiedenes
(107) Körper und Licht
(108) Vom Büchertisch

DEN FREIEN DIE WELT (1926)

SONNE INS LEBEN 1928

6

5

4

 

 

 

CUMULATIVE INDEX

ISSUES 4 - 6

A
Antworten  4:23 – 5:23 – 6:25
ARRIENS, C.
— Unter den Nacktvölkern am Binue (Westafrika) 6:11
B
— Wie komme ich am besten zu einem eigenem Heim? 4:7
D
Das große Vertrauen 4:24
Das gute Buch 4:24 – 5:26
DIETRICH, Siegfried
— Das Geheimnis der Körperkultur 6:6
F
FELTMANN, C.
— Guter Rat 6:3
FLEISCHHACK, Marianne
— Meine Hühnerpraxis 5:6
Fragekasten 4:23 – 5:25
FRIED, Herm.
— Fahrterinnerungen 4:5
H
HÄHNLEIN, V.
— Pflegen sie ihre Füsse! 5:19
HEMPEL, Walter
— Der Hafen 4:19
HEROLD, Hildburg
— An die akademische Jugend 4:21
K
KAISER, Fritz
— Eine hehre Erkenntnisstunde 5:12
KRESS, Fritz
— Das Kinderparadies, 6:2
L
Liga für freie Lebensgestaltung Nachrichten 4:25 – 5:23 – 6:23 
M
MÜLHAUSE, Joh. Reinh.
— Graphologie der Kinderschrift 5:9
MÜLHAUSE-VOGELER, Therese
— Die Stellung der Frau in der Freikörperkulturbewegung 4:2
O
— Mechanisierung und Freude 4:20
R
RAUCH, Ella Louise
— Das Gastmahl, der Sigune  4:18 – 6:21
RAUCH, Karl
— Vom Jacob, vom Frühling und von den neuen Menschen 6:3
REINHOLD, Regn
— Gebt Sonne euren Kindern! 5:18
S
SCHIERING, Franz
— Fechtergruppen im Potsdamer Lustgarden 6:8
SCHUMANN, Werner
— Die Tragödie des Maikäfers 5:2
SCHWEISHEIMER, W.
— Vom Ursprung des Tanzes 5:4
STRUBE, Fritz
— Jeder hat die Pflight, Gesund zu sein! 5:16
SUHR, Werner
— Gesundheitliche Frauengymnastik  4:16 – 6:16
T
TALLARD, Carl
— Atme Tief und Gesund 6:20
V
VON ZOIS, Michelangelo Freiherr
— War lo wach? 5:14 – 6:14
W
WEIDEMANN, Magnus
— Grossstadfreuden 6:9
WEIGELT, Friedrich
— Rosebery d’ Arcuto 5:20
WIEDERMANN, Fritz
— Das selbstgebaute Wochenendhaus 6:18
WIRZ, Dr.
— Am See von Sentani unter liebenswürdigen Wilden 4:12
Z
ZOIS, Michelangelo Baron
— Kärnten – ein Sonnenland 4:14

SOMA 1927

2.11

2.8

2.4

CUMULATIVE INDEX
2. JAHRGANG
HEFTE 4, 8 & 11

A
Als ich ein Kind war… 8:8
Aus dem Vorordner, 8:1a
B
Buchbesprechungen 4:122
BÜRING, Karl Wilhelm
— Cherubin und die Dame (Gedicht) 4:108
— Henry D. Thoreau der erste Apostel der Freiluft- und Nacktkultur 4:118
BÜRING, Wilhelm
— Nacktheit als kosmisches Symbol 8:18
BUSZMANN, Hans
— Das Gerücht  8:22
D
DAUDE, Heinz
— Sinkender Sommer… 8:36
Der ewige Kreislauf auf des Jahres (Photo-Bericht) 11:125
Die Bedeutung der Frau in der Licht-bewegung 11:120
Die Moral und Unmoral der Nacktheit 8:34
Die Nacktkultur in Ungarn 4:96
F
Flucht 11:109
G
GROSCHE, Emil
— Nacktsport auf Hiddensee 4:110
I
Ist die Kunst zwecklos? 11:145
K
KARL, Rudolf
— Der nackte Mensch 4:85
— Lebenswert des Spiels 8:1
Kleine Anzeigen 11:146a
KNAPKE
— Mutterschaftsrecht 11:136
KUNZ.
— „Soma?“ 8:7
Q
QUENZEL, Karl
— Der geschichtliche Jesus und die christliche Weltansicht 11:115
R
RIECK, Hubert
— Ernste Mahnung 11:134
— Sonnenmenschen – Gottesmenschen! 8:10
S
SCHNELLBACH, Hermann
— Die Begegnung 4:104
SCHMIDT, Hans Walter
— Der Skisport und seine gesundheitliche Bedeutung 11:129
Selbsverständlichkeiten 8:12
T
TESSMANN, Rudolf
— Ein Sonnentag 4:92
— Wissenschaft und Sittlichkeit 8:37
V
Verrat am deutschen Geiste! 11:141
VIERKE, Luise
— Geschlechtliche Aufklärung der Jugend ist not! 4:114
W
WAGNER-STÜRMER, Willy
— Bekenntnis zum Dasein! 11:112 Weibliche Anmut 4:99