UHC Week 11

UHC Western European History II
The Age of Extremes

"In Zurich in 1915, losing interest in the slaughterhouse of the world war, we turned to art. While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save humanity from the furious folly of these times. We aspired to a new order that might restore the balance between heaven and hell."
Hugo Ball

gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori
gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini
gadji beri bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim
gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban
o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo
gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen
bluku terullala blaulala loooo

zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam
elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata
velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor
gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö
viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo

Week #11

November 4th We will then begin to deal with the breakdown of Western Society and the problems of the inter-war years which help bring about the rise of Communist, Nazi and Fascist states. We will also begin to deal with Germany in the inter-war period and why the Nazis were able to rise to power.

Read for For November 12 and 14:

pp. 81-99 in Berghahn

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture9.html - The Entire Lecture

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture11.html

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture12.html

The Trial of Adolf Hitler

We will do Germans into Nazis over the two classes next week.

We will split up the book so that approx. 4 of you will take one chapter, to read and discuss when we come into class on the 14th and the 16th.

November 6th - We will pay a visit to "Cabaret Voltaire" in Zurich in 1916. We will meet Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tszara, Johnny Rotten and Virginia Woolf and participate in a performance with them. Klaus Nomi may also make a guest appearance.