Les cròniques berlineses d'Eugeni Xammar. L'escriptor català i la cultura de masses

Eugeni Xammar was the Berlin correspondent for newspapers La Veu de Catalunya and La Publicitat from 1922 to 1924 and for Ahora from 1930 to 1936. The Catalan journalist witnessed the events that determined the failure of the Weimar Republic and which, eventually, brought Hitler to power. This artic...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Matas Pons, Álex
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/148561
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/148561
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Corresponsals estrangers
Foreign correspondents
Xammar, Eugeni, 1888-1973
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Summary:Eugeni Xammar was the Berlin correspondent for newspapers La Veu de Catalunya and La Publicitat from 1922 to 1924 and for Ahora from 1930 to 1936. The Catalan journalist witnessed the events that determined the failure of the Weimar Republic and which, eventually, brought Hitler to power. This article analyzes Eugeni Xammar's intellectual condition from his discussion of these historical episodes and also from his follow-up on the increasingly decisive power of aesthetics and language of propaganda.