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Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lubeck

Nordic Days, 1920-1960
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In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lubeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation. Focusing on institutional records as well as public discourse and material artifacts, the author traces the mobilization of "Nordic" as a distinctly German in-group during the Weimar, Nazi, and early Cold War eras, highlighting particular ways participants included and excluded racial, religious, and other cultural identities in their own "imagined community." Focusing on the festival as both a site of participation and consumption, the author assesses two postwar periods as well as the legacy of the Holocaust in a northwest German town.
Erika L. Briesacher is associate professor of history at Worcester State University.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Finance, Festivals, and the Aftermath of the Great War Chapter 2: Celebration, Culture, and Commerce: The Case of Nordische Woche Chapter 3: Evolving Identity: The Nordische Gesellschaft, 1921-1938 Chapter 4: Nazi Nordicism in War and Occupation Chapter 5: New Nordic Days Conclusion: Identities over Time Bibliography About the Author
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