Monographs in German History
Volume 1
Osthandel and Ostpolitik: German Foreign TradePolicies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer Mark Spaulding
Volume 2
A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reform andEconomic Recovery in Postwar Germany Rebecca Boehling
Volume 3
From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal Stabilizationand Political Crisis in Weimar Germany Ben Lieberman
Volume 4
Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in'Red' Saxony Christian W. Szejnmann
Volume 5
Citizens and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law inBritain and the German States, 1789–1870 Andreas Fahrmeir
Volume 6
Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics ofInventing from Weimar to Bonn Kees Gispen
Volume 7
“Aryanisation” in Hamburg Frank Bajohr
Volume 8
The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reformin Weimar Germany Marjorie Lamberti
Volume 9
The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, theCDU/CSU, and the West, 1949–1966 Ronald J. Granieri
Volume 10
The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity,and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898–1933 E. Kurlander
Volume 11
Recasting West German Elites: Higher Civil Servants,Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse betweenNazism and Democracy, 1945–1955 Michael R. Hayse
Volume 12
The Creation of the Modern German Army: GeneralWalther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic,1914–1930 William Mulligan
Volume 13
The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinismand the Global Economy Peter Thompson
Volume 14
“Conservative Revolutionaries”: Protestant andCatholic Churches in Germany After Radical PoliticalChange in the 1990s Barbara Thériault
Volume 15
Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz JosefStrauss and the CSU, 1949–1969 Mark Milosch
Volume 16
Sex, Thugs and Rock ‘N' Roll. Teenage Rebels inCold-War East Germany Mark Fenemore
Volume 17
A Single Communal Faith? The German Right fromConservatism to National Socialism Thomas Rohrämer
Volume 18
Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstructionand Politics In West Germany, 1949–1957 Mark E. Spicka
Volume 19
Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg andArt in Hamburg's Public Realm 1896-1918 Mark A. Russell
Volume 20
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany Cornelie Usborne
Volume 21
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany:Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond William T. Markham
Volume 22
The Changing Faces of Citizenship: Integration andMobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Germany Joyce Marie Mushaben
Volume 23
Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism andNationalism, 1848–1884 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Volume 24
Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromiseand Participation in the GDR Esther von Richthofen
Volume 25
Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in ImperialGermany, 1871–1918 Gary D. Stark
Volume 26
After the ‘Socialist Spring': Collectivisation andEconomic Transformation in the GDR George Last
Volume 27
Learning Democracy: Education Reform in WestGermany, 1945–1965 Brian M. Puaca
Volume 28
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists betweenAuthenticity and Performance Timothy S. Brown
Volume 29
The Political Economy of Germany under ChancellorsKohl and Schröder: Decline of the German Model? Jeremy Leaman
Volume 30
The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany,1871–1918 Catherine L. Dollard
BANNED IN BERLIN
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany
1871–1918
Gary D. Stark
Published in 2009 by
Berghahn Books
©2009, 2012 Gary D. Stark
First ebook edition published in 2011
First paperback edition published in 2012
All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stark, Gary D., 1948–
Banned in Berlin : literary censorship in imperial Germany, 1871-1918 / Gary D. Stark.
p. cm.—(Monographs in German history ; v. 25)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84545-570-5 (hbk.)—ISBN 978-0-85745-311-2 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-1-84545-903-1 (ebk.)
1. German literature—19th century—Censorship. 2. German literature—20th century—Censorship. 3. Theater—Censorship—Germany—History. 4. Literature and state—Germany—History. 5. Censorship—Germany—History. I. Title.
PT345.S73 2009
363.310931'09034—dc22