Held in the city of Goethe and Schiller, Yiddish Summer Weimar is the world's most prominent annual Yiddish culture event. This year it revives the Jewish creative fervor associated with Weimar-era ...
While the Weimar Republic is often summarized as a period of "dancing on a volcano" ahead of the Nazi era, cultural historian Sabina Becker tells DW why the period should be revisited for its rich ...
Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...
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 ...
This is the text of “Weimar in Waltham,” the talk on the early history of Brandeis with which Max Richter Professor of American Civilization Stephen J. Whitfield opened the Dec. 15 faculty symposium ...
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The 'Theaterplatz' in Weimar with a monument of Schiller and Goethe. Photo: DPA I peered down a spiralling staircase that seemed to go on without end, like it belonged in sketch from surreal artist ...
Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...
Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval -- Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum -- Weimar Surfaces Now -- Tactility in the City -- Exhibiting Superficies -- ...