The hero in the trench

Karl Wagner: Introduction to the Rise and Fall of the Great Man. Michael Gamper: The 'Great Man' in War. Peter Schnyder: Redemption from Mediality? 'Hero' and 'New Man' in the War Rhetoric of Simmel and Sombart. Robert Leucht: Economic General and Social Technician. Imaginary Leaders of the War Economy and the Path to a New Social Order. Sonja Osterwalder: Without Auxiliary Constructions. Freud's Dirge on the Cultural Man after 1914. Helvetic Heroism. Peter Utz: Helvetic Heroism at Huber Publishing: Robert Faesi, Paul Ilg, Robert Walser. Paul Keckeis: Fusilier and Writer. On Robert Walser's Literary Military Sociology. Thomas Fries: Two Swiss Authors on the First World War: War Experience and Writing in Blaise Cendrars and Meinrad Inglin. In This Great Time. Christian van der Steeg: The Enchantment of Time in the Newspaper. Karl Kraus' Great Man in World War. Stephan Baumgartner: Intensities of War. On Robert Musil and Ernst Jünger. Werner Michler: War Biologies. Between Nature (from 1859) and Idea (from 1914). Sabine Schneider: Orientation of Minds in the Landslide of Europe. Hofmannsthal's Hermeneutics of War. Dirges, New Codifications. Ulrich Johannes Beil: From Private to Dictator. Hysteria, Mediality, and Hypnosis in Ernst Weiss' The Eyewitness. Clemens Özelt: Genius and Physical Law. Literary Objectification of Fame after 1900 (Max Brod, Ernst Weiss). Sarah Mohi-van Känel: Old Heroes against the 'New Woman'. Erich Kästner's Fabian. The Story of a Moralist. Jan Süselbeck: The Multiple Self. Arnolt Bronnen's Autobiography as a Later 'Mirror Text' to his Freikorps Hero Novel. O. S. Medial Reflection. Karl Wagner: Lytton Strachey's Deconstruction of the 'Great Man' through Biography. Hans-Georg von Arburg: Funerary Ornaments. Siegfried Kracauer and the Cult of the Fallen in the Weimar Republic. Elisabeth Bronfen: Hollywood and the First World War: A Question of Imaginary Approaches.