Sabine Hake, “The Nazi Worker” and the “Proletarian Dream Project”

Sponsored by European Studies, the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and the George L. Mosse Program in History.

Sabine Hake is the Professor of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where she has taught since 2004. A cultural historian working on nineteenth and twentieth century German, she is the author of eight monographs, including Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin (2008) and the first two volumes of The Proletarian Dreamtrilogy (2017 and 2023). She has coedited four anthologies and published numerous articles on German film, Weimar culture, and Nazi culture. Her history of German film, German National Cinema (2008), has been translated into German. From 2011 to 2021, she served as the editor of German Studies Review, the journal of the German Studies Association. Her interdisciplinary research has been supported by the National Gallery, the German Academic Exchange Service, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright, Rockefeller, Getty, and Mellon Foundations. Most recently, she received the 2022 Reinhold Schünzel Preis in recognition of her contribution to the German film heritage.

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Details about Sabine Hake’s work project can be found here.