In the 1920s, life in Berlin was fast and furious, but in large rural areas of the nation, life was slower and not fond of change.
The Weimar Republic Left had many qualities and many liberal aspirations, but it never found the necessary unity to make those ideals become reality.
Many different forms of modernistic arts florished in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. What they all had in common was the need to show the new reality, twarted by the experience of war and by the disillusionment for the future.
The Weimar Republic relation with Jews was contradictory at best. On the one hand, the republic was a first time of full citizenship for the German Jewish people, who became a driving force in the political and cultural life of Weimar. On the other, Anti-Semitism rose to preoccupying levels.
The concept of the European Civil War rests on the idea that the twenty years of the interwar period were not really a time of peace, but they were a continuation of the world conflict if in a different fashion.
Hyperinflation was a common recurrance after a war and all European country suffered for it after WWI. Still we particularly remember Germany hyperinflation, not only because it was crazy, but also because it’s well-documented.
The ‘Principle of the Leader’ was originally a phylosofical ideal very strong in Prussian Germany. The true Furhrer would inspire people to act, not act in their stead and would never seek dominance
German Expressionism produced art of the emotions and frankness. It sought an intensity of feeling, deeply personal and spiritual. It projected the artist’s anxious soul outside, trying to induce a strong reaction by shocking the viewer
It has often been speculated that the Weimar republic – born in messy times and always moving on rocky ground – never really had a chance for success. And still it was a becon of democracy for its short life.
Weimar culture is often identified with its cabaret culture, and rightly so. In that environment, the extreme, modern, free post-war lifestyle found its fuller form of expression.
Too extreme for many Germans, Berlin was the heart of the Weimar culture. After the war, the city found a new, shocking, extreme, modern way of life
The Weimar Republic was one of the most meaningful experience and times in the history of Germany… and of Europe at large. Condisered just the prelude of the Third Reich for a long time, today historians are revaluating its importance. This is my theme for this year AtoZ Challenge