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The 1920s and 1930s are commonly known as the Golden Age of Flight, but they also saw many experiments in rocketry. This article explores the symbolic traces that such early innovations in aerospace engineering left in the sociopolitical thinking of German writer Kurt Hiller (1885-1972). Particular attention is paid to the rhetorical potential of technological discourses in Hiller’s essays and speeches from the 1920s. The article shows how, as a public intellectual, Hiller was able to interlink scientific, religious, biological and political discourses. It furthermore demonstrates that Hiller rhetorically rejected linear scientific thinking in favour of the utopian promise of space travel. This defining opposition in his reasoning hinged on a topical switch from horizontal to vertical orientation, which underpinned his promulgation of a new type of socialist-meritocratic democracy. In this he mirrored the vertical thinking of his times by applying it in a distinctive way to his own sociopolitical writing and thought.

Vertikaltopik und technische Innovation als diskursiv-rhetorisches Instrumentarium politischer Utopie bei Kurt Hiller