Review Essay: Chancen der Weimarer Republik

This article reviews a selection of recent historical literature on Weimar Germany including overview studies, monographs, edited volumes and collections of primary sources. Divided into six parts, new developments in the research on the Weimar Republic are traced. The focus lies on crisis constructions and future expectations, political culture and symbolism, Vernunftrepublikanern and Weimar democrats as well as on political violence and body history. Approaches stressing the open nature of the Weimar years, sometimes suggesting continuities with the Third Reich, are examined and situated in the historiographical framework.