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20 literature & background information sucked into the craze (original quote: »Zeppelinkult«, [42]) he writes about. Nevertheless, his book is very rich on historic material and discovers very many meanings of the technology that contribute to my pursuit. Similar to Reinicke’s different perspectives, Rüdiger Haude [18] introduces an even clearer categorization in his book »Grenzflüge – Politische Symbolik der Luftfahrt vor dem ersten Weltkrieg: das Beispiel Aachen«. He focuses his analysis on a particular region (the city of Aachen) and analyzes different symbolisms of aviation and aeronautics in general. His study focuses on the impact of aviation on this city before World War I. The book complements Reinicke’s rich accounts in a helpful way, giving a much clearer framework and background information about the society all these accounts took place in. While it is not limited to airships, those do play a major role in his book. The categories Haude uses to analyze reflect different interpretations about the technology in society at this time. These include the airships role in international understanding vs. military supremacy, struggles between humankind and nation, the Rhine region and Prussia, middle class and aristocracy, political left and right, individual and collective, sports and war, central authority in contrast to self organization as well as technology and nature. [18, 7]. With »A Nation of Fliers«, Peter Fritzsche [16] wrote another piece on the fascination of Germans for flight in general and airships in particular. His perspective is not all too new - he mostly re-tells the entire story of how Germans got all excited about the airship for an English-speaking audience. Nevertheless, Fritzsche, too, contributes by finding individual pieces of evidence on certain details that others before him have missed or left out. And similarly to Chant’s piece mentioned above, the English language is helpful in order to write about the specific technology and its time. Frank [15] focuses on the media’s role in the Zeppelin movement. While she explains very nicely how the aesthetics of the airship added to the fascination of the public, she focuses on the role risk and catastrophe had in the creating and maintaining the myth around the Zeppelin. Sadly, she does not cover the role of Zeppelin himself and his use of the media for his purposes. Instead, she focuses on the elements of the public’s fascination through media, mainly photographs that are not of much use for my research. Warneken [50] gives a broad overview on the working class movement’s position to and opinion about airships. Being an ethnographer with specialization on this movement, especially the work he does sampling newspapers and newspaper articles from the time around the Echterdingen miracle is invaluable for my study. Further sources of interesting insights are the scientific annuals published by the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. Those are anthologies of all kinds of research around Zeppelin and his airships - some of the papers contained are more valuable to my project, some are less. Among those are Henry Cord Meyer’s accounts on national-
2.3 literature bodies about and around zeppelins 21 ism in the conception of the zeppelin [36] and Jeannine Zeising’s pieces about journalistic exploitation of the Zeppelin airship [54, 53]. In her dissertation that forms the basis for both publications, she unveils the relation of Zeppelin and the press in a detailed analysis. This analysis brings to light several of the motives I am going to mention. Her broad analysis of the media gives great insight into the visions, hopes, dreams and fears that were associated with this new technology. Another piece by Clausberg [7] analyzes the imagination of airships in German science fiction literature in the early 1900s. This category is the most important one for my research. While I, too, draw on Eckener several times, those works listed in this section form great starting points for my endeavor as they provide great observations.
Page 1: MASTERARBEIT Titel der Masterarbeit
Page 4 and 5: Tobias Kühne: A Zeppelin Endeavor,
Page 6 and 7: ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Die vorliegende Arb
Page 9 and 10: CONTENTS i introduction & foundatio
Page 11: Part I INTRODUCTION & FOUNDATIONS
Page 14 and 15: 4 introduction was soon refined and
Page 16 and 17: 6 introduction unidirectional matte
Page 18 and 19: 8 literature & background informati
Page 20 and 21: 10 literature & background informat
Page 33 and 34: RESEARCH QUESTION As the short acco
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Page 42 and 43: 32 theoretical framework policies,
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Page 46 and 47: 36 theoretical framework Actor-Netw
Page 48 and 49: 38 theoretical framework 4.4 asiden
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Page 57 and 58: ANALYSIS In the following section,
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6.4 the mood changed 75 f.]. In 189
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6.4 the mood changed 77 dia event i
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6.4 the mood changed 79 and the rel
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RESULTS & CONCLUSION In this last c
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7.1 findings 85 From the technologi
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7.1 findings 87 all sorts of lighte
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BIBLIOGRAPHY [1] Madeleine Akrich.
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ibliography 101 [24] Roland Innerho
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ibliography 103 [52] Langdon Winner
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