Costituzione e storia costituzionale. La Repubblica di Weimar cento anni dopo

This article reconstructs some of the historiographical issues that emerge from different readings of the Weimar Republic. It begins with the earliest, classical studies, then considers the major established theses concerning the Republic, and then finally turns to the new lines of research that focus on the Weimar Constitution, or the «Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs» (the Constitution of the German Reich). Two studies, in particular, appeared on the centenary occasion to take stock of the state of the scholarship and offer new methodological perspectives. They agree regarding the significance of the «Reichsverfassung» (Constitution), but also underscore the need to reconsider the Weimar Republic, and historical phenomena in general, from an interdisciplinary and constitutional history perspective.

Keywords: Weimar Republic, Reichsverfassung, Constitutional history, Parliament.