Piper, Ernst Nacht über Europa

Cultural history of the First World War. The historian Ernst Piper has dealt intensively with the cultural-historical aspects of the First World War and unfolds a great intellectual panorama of this time. Piper describes the intellectual mobilisation of the nations, the development of total war, the division of the labour movement, the plight of the Jewish minorities and the disastrous effects of the war in Germany after the defeat of 1918. He vividly shows how the events of the war were reflected in debates, literature and visual media. He presents the political, intellectual and artistic protagonists as seismographs of the profound changes that shook the world. The result is a new, vivid narrative of the First World War that stands out from the flood of relevant literature.

Ernst Piper, born in Munich in 1952. Studied history, philosophy and German literature in Munich and Berlin. He has been a private lecturer in modern history at the University of Potsdam since 2006. He has published numerous books on contemporary history, most recently "National Socialism. Its history from 1919 to the present day" (2012). Ernst Piper lives in Berlin.