„Sieben Plagen auf einmal schlagen“ – Theatrale Hygienepropaganda und Infektionskrankheiten in der Sowjetunion der 1920 er–40 er Jahre**
Abstract
This paper explores the role and impact of the official Soviet hygiene propaganda during the first three decades after the October Revolution, taking as an example theatrical performances about infectious diseases. In the Bolshevik Great Experiment of the 1920s–30s, the creation of a “Soviet body” optimized according to aesthetic and medical‐hygienic norms was one of the core parts of the socialist project. For that purpose, hygiene campaigns were organized to promote hygiene and cleanliness with posters, leaflets, mobile exhibitions and lectures. Moreover, starting in the 1920s the theatrical performances were demonstrated in open‐air theatres and clubhouses for workers and farmers. Even in the kolkhoz fields agitprop‐revues, agit‐trials, living newspapers and didactic plays were performed. Many of them addressed the issues of epidemics. To popularize medical knowledge, special theatres of sanitary education were opened in Moscow and other cities of the country in the mid‐1920s–30s. Using archival materials of the Moscow Theatre for Sanitary Culture (1925–1947), the article shows theatrical techniques for producing evidence used in performances, bacteriological coding of political antagonisms on sanitary stages and transformations of everyday cultural practices in theatrical hygiene propaganda.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000028?af=R
Exkursionen als Beitrag zur praxisorientierten akademischen Lehre – Wilhelm Kählers Besichtigungen der pommerschen Wirtschaft in der Weimarer Zeit
Abstract
In the German Weimar Republic of the 1920s, the field of economic science found itself in a crisis environment beyond the limits of its understanding. Very few contributions from academia found their way into practice, and thus the limited interplay between the two was of little consequence. During this era, universities responded by introducing various new approaches to make the teaching of economics more relevant to practice. In many universities, this included the participation of practitioners as lecturers and examiners. In addition, Professor Wilhelm Kähler of the University of Greifswald organised field trips within the province of Pomerania so that students could see economics in practice and better grasp its real‐world peculiarities. In this paper, the historical records of these excursions, as recorded in a log, are analysed and insights gained from the numerous teaching visits to companies, welfare institutions, organisations and associations as well as to municipalities, housing developments and infrastructural establishments. The paper concludes with an examination of how practical relevance in university teaching subsequently shifted during the Nazi era.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bewi.202000021?af=R