Sabine Hake

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Sabine Hake is the Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture at The University of Texas at Austin. A cultural historian working on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, she is the author of seven monographs, including Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (2008). Her most recent book, The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933 (2017) won the 2016-17 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. She is currently working on the second volume, The German Worker: Reimagining Class in the Third Reich. For more information, see sabinehake.com.

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© 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press An art form that relates to a particular social class does not exist, and if it did, it would be entirely irrelevant to life. We ask those who want to create proletarian art: “What is proletarian art?” Is it an art created by the proletarians themselves? Or an art only in the service of the proletariat? Or an art intended to arouse proletarian (revolutionary) instincts? There exists no art created by proletarians because a proletarian who creates art no...