Peter Jelavich

Professor
Cultural and intellectual history of Europe
since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on
Germany; popular culture, mass culture,
and the media; modern social and cultural theory

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone: 410-516-7589
E-mail: jelavich@jhu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm

Curriculum Vitae

Peter Jelavich, Professor, specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with emphasis on Germany. His areas of interest include the interaction of elite and popular culture; the history of mass culture and the media; and the application of cultural and social theories to historical study. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006).  He currently is writing a book on censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.

Current project:

Book project: Censorship of the arts in Germany from 1890 to the present.

Recent publications:

Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

“Grotesque and Carnivalesque: Negation and Renewal around 1900.” In: Pamela Kort, ed., Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870-1940. Munich: Prestel, 2004. Pp. 89-104.

“ ‘Am I Allowed to Amuse Myself Here?’: The German Bourgeoisie Confronts Early Film.” In: Suzanne Marchand and David Lindenfeld, eds., Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. 227-249

 “The City Vanishes: Piel Jutzi’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931).” In: Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, eds., Screening the City. London: Verso, 2003. Pp.58-79.

“Der demokratische Giftschrank: Zensur und Indizierung in der Weimar Republik und der Bundesrepublik.”  In: Stephan Kellner, ed., Der ‘Giftschrank’: Erotik, Sexualwissenschaft, Politik und Literatur—‘REMOTA’: Die weggesperrten Bücher der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbiothek, 2002. Pp. 56-67.

[in Hebrew:] “Free to Destroy Freedom? Hate Speech in the Weimar Republic.” In: Michael Confino, ed., The Power of Words and the Frailty of Reason: Propaganda, Incitement and Freedom of Speech. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 2002. Pp.181-199.

“Satire under Socialism: Cabaret in the German Democratic Republic.” In: Sigrid Bauschinger, ed., Die freche Muse / The Impudent Muse. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2000. Pp. 163-178.

“Paradoxes of Censorship in Modern Germany.” In: Mark Micale and Robert Dietle, eds., Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 265-285.

“Performing High and Low: Jews in Theater, Cabaret, Revue, and Film.” In: Emily Bilsky, ed., Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918.  New York: The Jewish Museum, 1999. Pp. 208-235.

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