In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...
Jason Lutes first started drawing Berlin, his epic graphic novel about the disintegration of the Weimar Republic, in 1996, when the topic seemed an esoteric choice for an American storyteller. The ...
"We didn’t just want to view Weimar from its ending,” exhibition curator Simone Erpel says Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker When you think of the Weimar Republic, you likely envision a ...
The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...
Whether they are on the East or West Coast this fall, American viewers have the opportunity to see a superb exhibition about the Weimar Republic—a multimedia show that is scholarly, in-depth and ...
Der Mord an Walther Rathenau erschütterte 1922 Deutschland. Seine politischen Überzeugungen wurden dem Außenminister zum ...
This is the seventh in a series of articles on the recent Berlin film festival, the Berlinale, held February 7-17, 2013. Part 1 was posted on February 21, part 2 on February 27, part 3 on March 1, ...
A history tracing the inter-war experiences of people in the city of Weimar during the rise of the Nazis fascinates, but its ...