2008052671
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ISBN 978-1-84545-570-5 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-85745-311-2 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-84545-903-1 (ebook)
For Kathleen and Karl
CONTENTS
Introduction Censorship, Society, and Literary Life in Imperial Germany
Chapter 3 Defending the Political Order
Chapter 4 Defending the Social Order
Chapter 5 Defending the Religious Order
Chapter 6 Defending the Moral Order
Chapter 7 The Censored: Authors' Responses to Censorship
Conclusion Imperial Censorship: An Appraisal
Index of Censored Authors, Titles, Periodicals, and Publishing Firms
TABLES
Table 2.1 Dramas Submitted and Banned in Berlin, 1876–1880
Table 2.2 Dramas Submitted and Banned in Berlin, 1891–1900
Table 2.3 New Dramas Banned in Berlin, 1900–1917
Table 2.4 Dramas Banned or Withdrawn in Berlin, 1901–1903
Table 2.5 Dramas Submitted and Banned in Frankfurt, 1909–1914
Table 2.6 Dramas Banned in Munich, 1908–1918
Table 2.7 Dramas Considered, Allowed (Licensed), and Banned (Refused) by the English Lord Chamberlain, 1871–1912
Table 2.8 The Work of the Munich Censorship Advisory Board (Zensurbeirai)
FIGURES
Figure 2.1 Freie Bühne (Kladderadatsch, April 1890)
Figure 3.1 Prosecutions for lèse majesté in Germany, 1882-1918
Figure 5.1 Prosecutions for Blasphemy in Germany, 1882-1918
Figure 5.2 The Anti-Revolution Bill (Kladderadatsch, December 1894)
Figure 6.1 Prosecutions for Obscenity in Germany, 1890-1918
Figure 6.2 Sodoms Ende (Kladderadatsch, October 1890)
Figure C.1 “This is how I'll draw my next picture” (Simplicissimus, 1898)
Figure C.2 Traum des Majestätsbeleidigers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
When I began work on this topic toward the end of the last century, before periodically wandering off down twisting pathways of academic administration, I never imagined it would take so long to complete. It has been a labor of love, but a protracted one. Were it not for the patience (and impatience), prodding, suggestions, inspiration, and support of friends, colleagues, and family, I would be laboring still.
In Germany, Rainer and Rita Jagmann, Robert Brokopp, and Gaby Moll were always welcoming and generous hosts willing to listen tolerantly to tales from the archives. Though they may no longer remember it, at the University of Texas at Arlington my colleagues Don Kyle, Evan Anders, Robert Fairbanks, and Tom Porter read early drafts or encouraged me onward, while the university supported my initial research with grants and summer stipends from the Organized Research Fund. A German Academic Exchange Service Study Visit Grant and National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend made possible additional visits to archives and libraries, while a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1985-1986 underwrote a year of research, reflection, and writing. I was able to complete a major part of the manuscript during a glorious semester as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, where I benefited from Peter Paret's generous advice and encouragement and from the assistance of the library staff. A sabbatical and travel grants from Grand Valley State University have provided me the time necessary to complete the manuscript. My colleague Jason Crouthamel and the Faculty Writing Group read various chapters and offered valuable suggestions for improving and clarifying them, while the members of the colloquia of the History Department and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences listened patiently and asked useful questions as I honed my arguments. Elaine Eldridge helped me wrestle some of the more lengthy segments into a more manageable, and readable, form.
Throughout my career Vernon Lidtke has been a most supportive and inspiring mentor. For many years Robert J. Goldstein, Peter Jelavich, Andrew Lees, Charles E. McClelland, and especially Leslie Moch have also followed this project with interest, heartened me when I needed it, read drafts of various chapters, and offered perceptive critiques.
My deepest debt, however, is to my wife Kathleen Underwood and son Karl Underwood Stark, who have lived with this topic nearly as long as I and are as happy as I am to see it completed. Their patience, support, and presence made that possible.