Thought lost to the hate of the Nazis for decades, Anders als die Andern, the first film that portrayed a realistic queer relationship, resurfaced in the 1970s
All through the Great War and especially after it, Kaiser Wilhelm’s mental conditions were hotly discussed. This argument was used both to explain why Germany dragged Europe in the worst war ever fought and why Germany could not be held responsible for it.
Anti-Semitism (The Great War) Young people from all countries joined WWI believing this would create a new world – their new world. Jews had – if anything – one more reason to do so: they could reshape their own existence inside their nation
Even when non-political, cabaret questions social mores with special regard to sexuality, religion and commercialism and this is what constitutes its form of humour and its stronger point of social commentary. Of course, no nationalistic force would ever have any of it.
Berlin was a city propelled by an energy that came in equal parts from anxiety and the search of pleasure and fulfilment. In the 1920s people really ‘danced on the edge of the vulcano’
Cabaret had a complex relationship with censorship in Germany… even when the Weimar Republic abolished it in favour of the greatest freedom of expression
Berlin was the perfect city to receive cabaret as a form of expression. In the 1920s, the fragmented language and sultry commentary seemed to be custom made for a city with many souls and a hunger for life
AtoZ Challenge 2019 – Theme Reveal (Berliner Cabaret) In 1920s Germany, cabaret had a chance to express people’s feelings in that excessive, shockingly honest way that was so particular to Berlin, the town that was becoming a Weltstaadt. A cosmopolis.
Founded in the 1870s to protect the Catholic minority, the Zentrum was part of the government coalition for most of the history of the Weimar Republic, but was never a true supporter.
There’s no doubt that the generation of Weimar was formed by WWI. The young people who fought in the trenches thought their elders, their parents, their fathers and mothers, could not understand what that meant.
A symbol of good luck and well-being for thousends of years, in the XX century in Europe the swastika took up a completely new meaning
In the 1920s, German women embraced the freedom women were exploring in the Western World. Maybe more, and for this they were often considered unpatriotic