The Metropolitan News Event and the Aesthetics of Political Mobilization: Interwar Literary Reportages in Berlin and the Experience of Synchronicity, 1920–1945.

This article investigates how interwar literary reporters on the socialist left understood and represented the experience of synchronicity. It traces a change in the conception of synchronicity in socialist journalism between the years of 1920 and 1945. Synchronicity in radical reportages originated as a means of describing and critiquing urban capitalism and the commercial news industry. After 1933, these socialist literary reporters began to revise their discussions of synchronicity to fit the new geopolitical situation. The article examines this development through the journalistic writings of Egon Erwin Kisch, Larissa Reissner, Illya Ehrenburg and Alfons Goldschmidt.