TYPOLOGY OF WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN NEW OBJECTIVITY AND ITS (RE)INTERPRETATION IN THE BABYLON BERLIN TV SERIES
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https://doi.org/10.18485/f_zsmu.2024.20.8Keywords:
New Objectivity, Babylon Berlin, Neue Frau, sex worker, mother, dancers, queer woman, gender performativity, Weimar RepublicAbstract
The theme of the paper encompasses defining the typology of women in the Weimar Republic through works of New Objectivity, as well as analyzing and interpreting the works of female and male artists who created during that period. The primary focus of the study revolves around the utilization of these works as visual references for the TV series Babylon Berlin and the questions pertaining to the portrayal of women in two different media. Encompassing characters such as sex workers, mothers, dancers, New Women, and queer women, we will analyze the demands imposed on women during that period. The paper also delves into the historical role of women in the Weimar Republic, along with the numerous challenges they faced in their struggle for emancipation. Women emerge as pivotal social actors for understanding life in the Weimar Republic. Serving as figures around which intense debates revolved, encompassing roles as revered mothers, sinful prostitutes, and the embodiment of the future in the form of the New Woman, nearly every aspect of contemporary life, from the domestic sphere to public regulation, was contingent on the gender constraints, acceptability, or unacceptability of a single woman.
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