Cultural comparisons in German war propaganda in the years 1914-18 (A04+)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: from 2017 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947

The project is studying German review periodicals as an important medium for war propaganda in the years 1914–18 and working out the operations and functions of cultural comparison these reveal. The approach to this research in the project is to conceive these journals as a specific medium representing a comprehensive practice of cultural comparison through its formal organization as a network for different types of texts and its thematic orientation towards describing the German nation in competition with others.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1288: Practices of comparisons: Ordering and changing the world
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Kai Kauffmann