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| Reflections of German Culture in Notgeld
(1919-1923)
The Notgeld research in progress investigates three different kinds of questions: first, questions surrounding the functions of Notgeld during the Weimar period and what these answers say about the social construction of reality; second, questions about the relation of various regional perspectives during the early Weimar Republic to historic developments on a national level; and third, to questions on the bearing of popular sentiments on the assertions and controversies in Weimar historical studies. Research questions surrounding the functions of Notgeld : How were Notgeld (Kleingeldscheine ) pieces used and by whom? Were there significant variations in uses and users across the landscape of Germany and levels of German society? Who were the publishers of Notgeld in various regions and what sorts of imagery appear on the Notgeld of those regions? What inferences do these facts permit? Research questions concerning the relation of regional perspectives to national developments: How do the images on German Notgeld (Kleingeldscheine ) relate to the larger economic, social, and political developments in the early 1920s? What responses to the unprecedented political violence of the Weimar Republic, to its social dislocations, to its right-wing judiciary, and its staggering inflation are illustrated or suggested by Notgeld imagery? Research questions on the bearing of popular sentiments on the assertions and controversies in historical studies: How might the varied imagery on German Notgeld (Kleingeldscheine ) contribute to current understandings of German cultural history and art history in the 1920s? Charles R. Jansen |