German StudieS AsSociation thirty-Sixth annual conference october 4–7, 2012 milwaukee, Wisconsin Cover photograph: Downtown Milwaukee. Photo courtesy of VISIT Milwaukee. Program of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference German Studies Association October 4–7, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hilton Milwaukee City Center Frontier Airlines Center German Studies Association Main Office: 1200 Academy Street Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295 USA Tel.: (269) 337-7056 Fax: (269) 337-7251 www.thegsa.org e-mail: [email protected] Technical Support: [email protected] President Stephen Brockmann (2011–2012) Carnegie Mellon University Vice President Suzanne Marchand (2011–2012) Louisiana State University Secretary-Treasurer Gerald A. Fetz University of Montana Executive Director David E. Barclay Kalamazoo College GSA Board Kathleen Canning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2012) Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami (2013) Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2014) Gerd Gemünden, Dartmouth College (2012) Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis (2012) Mary Lindemann, University of Miami (2012) Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013) Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2014) Dorothee Wierling, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Hamburg (2014) Celia Applegate, University of Rochester, ex officio non-voting (2012) Sabine Hake, University of Texas at Austin, ex officio non-voting © Copyright 2012 by German Studies Association Institutional Members American Friends of the Alexander McGill University von Humboldt Foundation Max Planck Institut für Geschichte American Institute of Contemporary Militärgeschichtliches German Studies Forschungsinstitut Potsdam Austrian Cultural Institute Nanovic Institute for European Austrian Fulbright Commission Studies at the University of The Canadian Centre for German Notre Dame and European Studies / Le centre Northern Arizona University canadien d’études allemandes et United States Holocaust Memorial européennes at York University and Museum Université de Montréal University of Arkansas, Fulbright Carolina-Duke Ph.D. in German College Studies University of Berkeley / Institute for Center for Holocaust Studies of the European Studies University of Vermont University of Colorado Cornell University University of Florida / Center for Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-Bonn University of Minnesota / Center for Georgetown University / Center for German and European Studies German and European Studies University of Minnesota / Department German Historical Institute of German, Scandinavian, and Gesellschaft für Deutschlandforschung Dutch Grinnell College University of Montana Hannah-Arendt-Institut, Dresden University of North Carolina– Harvard University / Center for Chapel Hill European Studies University of Pennsylvania Hoover Institution, Stanford University University of Richmond Illinois College University of South Carolina Indiana University, Institute of University of Wisconsin / Center for German Studies European Studies Kalamazoo College Vanderbilt University Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Zentrum für Zeithistorische Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein Forschungen (ZZF) Potsdam Leo Baeck Institute, New York Acknowledgments The Association is grateful to the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Montana, Wayne State University, and the Humanities Council of the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign for financial support toward the publication of German Studies Review. Former Presidents of the Association David Kitterman, 1976–78 Reece Kelley, 1979–80 Charles Burdick, 1981–82 Wulf Koepke, 1983–84 Konrad Jarausch, 1985–86 Ehrhard Bahr, 1987–88 Ronald Smelser, 1989–90 Frank Trommler, 1991–92 Jay W. Baird, 1993–94 Jennifer E. Michaels, 1995–96 Gerhard L. Weinberg, 1997–98 Gerhard H. Weiss, 1999–2000 Henry Friedlander, 2001–02 Patricia Herminghouse, 2003–04 Katherine Roper, 2005–06 Sara Lennox, 2007–08 Celia Applegate, 2009–10 Editors of German Studies Review Gerald R. Kleinfeld, 1978–2001 Diethelm Prowe, 2001–2011 Sabine Hake, 2012– Executive Director Gerald R. Kleinfeld, 1976–2005 David E. Barclay, 2006– German Studies Association The German Studies Association is the national and international associa- tion of scholars in all fields of German Studies. Its interest spans the period from the earliest times to the present Federal Republic of Germany, Aus- tria, and Switzerland. A multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary organiza- tion, the Association welcomes as members all those whose interests involve specific or broad aspects of history, literature, culture studies, politics and government, relating to German-speaking Europe. Members of the Associa- tion receive the German Studies Review, the electronic Newsletter, the Confer- ence Program, and all other publications except for books published in the Spektrum series, which are available from Berghahn Books. Further information about the Association and its activities can be found on the Web site, at www.thegsa.org Membership in the Association A membership form is available on line on the Association Web site. Mem- bers are encouraged to review their membership record regularly, and to update it. Changes of address or affiliation should be entered on line. German Studies Review The scholarly journal of the Association is the German Studies Review, pub- lished three times each year, in February, May, and October. The GSR con- tains articles and book reviews in history, literature, culture studies, politics and government, or interdisciplinary topics. Publication is in the language of submission, English or German. Members of the Association are the pri- mary book reviewers. The German Studies Review is published for the Association by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Sabine Hake of the University of Texas at Austin is editor of the journal. The current Editorial Board of the GSR includes: Andreas Daum (University of Buffalo) Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) Jennifer Evans (Carleton College) Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois) Martha Helfer (Rutgers University) Lutz Koepnick (Washington University in St. Louis) 6 Sabine Lang (University of Washington) Barbara McCloskey (University of Pittsburgh) Patricia McBride (Cornell University) Kathy Pence (Baruch College, CUNY) Brent Peterson (Lawrence University) Pamela Potter (University of Wisconsin) Brad Prager (University of Missouri) Steward Taberner (Leeds University) S. Jonathan Wiesen (University of Southern Illinois) Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University) Members and non-members are invited to submit manuscripts to the Edi- tor, Professor Sabine Hake. Information about submission of manuscripts is contained on the GSA Web site: Professor Sabine Hake Department of Germanic Studies Burdine 332 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-0304 Phone: 512-232-6379 Fax: 512-471-4025 Email: [email protected] Members of the Association interested in reviewing books for the GSR should write to the Book Review Editors: For books in History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology: Professor Andrew Port Department of History Wayne State University 3094 FAB 656 W. Kirby Detroit, MI 48202 [email protected] For books in German Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Art and Architecture: Professor Carl Niekerk Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2090 FLB, 707 South Mathews Urbana, IL 61821 [email protected] 7 Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association The GSA book series is entitled Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association. Published by Berghahn Books, the series represents the culmina- tion of four long-standing trends within the association. The first is a grow- ing tendency among members of the GSA to organize their work around common topics and to present their collaborations in series of panels at the association’s annual conference. The second is an effort both to expand the GSA’s sponsorship of scholarly work into a broader array of disciplines and historical periods and to strengthen thematic connections between them. The third is the increasing collaboration at the GSA among scholars from around the world who share interests the society, politics, and culture of the German-speaking peoples, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The fourth is the GSA’s burgeoning role as a venue for the introduction of state- of-the-art research and scholarship on the German-speaking peoples to an Anglophone audience. Spektrum seeks to promote these trends by providing a venue for the pub- lication of scholarly monographs and collections of papers originally pre- sented at the association’s annual conference. Our hope is that the volumes of Spektrum, taken as a whole, will reflect the dizzying variety of GSA mem- bers in terms of scholarly discipline—cultural anthropology, musicology, sociology, art, theology, film studies, philosophy, art history, literary criti- cism, history, and political science—as well as methodology, subject matter, and historical period. The Series Editor for Spektrum is Professor David M. Luebke, Department of History, University of Oregon. The members of the Board of Editors are: Friederike Eigler (Department of German, Georgetown University) Ann Goldberg (Department of History, University of California, Riverside) Gunther M. Hega (Department of Political Science, Western Michigan Uni- versity) James Van Horn Melton (Department of History, Emory University) Mara R.