The Germans' Sonnwendfeier: From folk festival to radical right-wing mobilizing ritual

Title:

The Germans' Sonnwendfeier: From folk festival to radical right-wing mobilizing ritual

Creator:

Wingfield, Nancy M.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:173697a3-c8c4-47a6-8c5d-764290eb14bc
uuid:173697a3-c8c4-47a6-8c5d-764290eb14bc

Subject:

Bund der Deutschen (BdD), celebration, invented tradition, Sonnwendfeier, and Sudetendeutsche Partei (SdP)

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This article analyzes the transition of German summer solstice celebrations in the Bohemian Lands from folk festivals to radical right-wing mobilizing rituals between the turn of the twentieth century and 1938. During the interwar period, these celebrations were a response to the historic and/or invented traditions of the First Republic, which were at the intersection of Czech (-oslovak) national identity as a construction of linguistic-cultural affiliation. The transformation of the Sonnwendfeier to a modern, mass, radical right-wing tool for organizing and maintaining a racial community parallels the growing radicalization of the nationally identifying Germans across Habsburg Central Europe between the world wars. Summer solstice celebrations played an important role in the construction of a Sudeten German community from the bottom up during the 1930s. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

9-31

Source:

Střed: časopis pro mezioborová studia střední Evropy 19. a 20. století | 2015 Volume:7 | Number:2

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CDK

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