Vertigo: the rise and fall of Weimar Germany

Preface: the new life

When the war came home

When money dies

Extreme living

'Destinies behind typewriters'

the supporting class of the new age

Precarious balance: the death of Ebert, the arrival of Hindenberg

Traffic as the art of citizenship

The Charleston years

Self-optimisation: perfecting leisure and the body

Between woman and man

gender doubts

The work runs out

The mood plummets, taste adapts

cultural conflicts in a time of depression

Evening over Potsdam

the end of a community of communication

Lonely elites

cabinet politics vs populism

The end: Chancellor Hitler

Epilogue.