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Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy

By (author) Jochen Hung

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Focusing on the fate of a Berlin-based newspaper during the 1920s and 1930s, Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy chronicles the transformation of a vibrant and liberal society into an oppressive and authoritarian dictatorship. Tempo proclaimed itself as â€œGermanyâ€™s most modern newspaperâ€ and attempted to capture the spirit of Weimar Berlin, giving a voice to a forward-looking generation that had grown up under the Weimar Republicâ€™s new democratic order. The newspaper celebrated modern technology, spectator sports, and American consumer products, constructing an optimistic vision of Germanyâ€™s future as a liberal consumer society anchored in Western values. The newspaperâ€™s idea of a modern, democratic Germany was undermined by the political and economic crises that hit Germany at the beginning of the 1930s. The way the newspaper described German democracy changed under these pressures. Flappers, American fridges, and modern musicâ€”the things that Tempo had once marshalled as representatives of a German futureâ€”were now rejected by the newspaper as emblems of a bygone age. The changes in Tempoâ€™s vision of Germanyâ€™s future show that descriptions of Weimar politics as a standoff between upright democrats and rabid extremists do not do justice to the historical complexity of the period. Rather, we need to accept the Nazis as a lethal product of a German democracy itself. The history of Tempo teaches us how liberal democracies can create and nurture their own worst enemies.

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