Abstract
<p>This first volume from the series on modernity and media studies provides an insight into the dimensions and functional potential of a retrospective look at the 1920s. Focusing on <italic>Babylon Berlin</italic>, the contribu-tions explore the question of how ›society‹, ›culture‹, ›history‹ and ›reality‹ are constructed by the series and modelled aesthetically and narratively from a media and cultural studies perspective. Which systems of norms and values are created in the series, which problem constellations and solutions are negotiated, and which cinematic presentation strategies come into play? The project investigates and evaluates the series’ dazzling and multifaceted, but by no means unproblematic, retrospective depiction of the Weimar Republic. <bold>With contributions by</bold> Aida Alagić Bandov | Andreas Blödorn | Julia Brandes | Sarah Brauckmann | Stephan Brössel | Corina Erk | Lea & Felipe Espinoza Garrido | Chris Flinterman | Linda Göttner | Robert Krause | Philipp Pabst | Kirsten Reimers | Oliver Ruf | Christoph Sauer | Henrik Wehmeier</p>