Women’s Voices in the Street: SPD speech records in the 1928 election campaign

Thirteen printed pages from the late 1920s. At first glance, nothing special, but the headline “Sprechplatte” (speech record) catches the eye. There it reads: “Instructions on the reverse”, which turn out to be instructions for use. Use for what? For phonographic records with SPD election campaign speeches. DHM’s student assistant Anna-Lena Almstedt sheds light on how the SPD speech records brought the 1928 election campaign, and with it women’s voices, out onto the streets of the Weimar Republic.