1st Edition

Weimar A Cultural History

Edited By Walter Laqueur Copyright 2011
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

The term "Weimar culture," while generally accepted, is in some respects unsatisfactory, if only because political and cultural history seldom coincides in time. Expressionism was not born with the defeat of the Imperial German army, nor is there any obvious connection between abstract painting and atonal music and the escape of the Kaiser, nor were the great scientific discoveries triggered off... Read more
1: Between Potsdam and Weimar; 2: The Left-Wing Intellectuals; 3: Thunder from the Right; 4: The Rise and Decline of the Avant-Garde I: New Writing and the Stage; 5: The Rise and Decline of the Avant-Garde II: Modernism and the Arts; 6: Universities in Opposition; 7: Berlin s’amuse; 8: ‘An End with Horror’; 9: Weimar in Perspective

Biography

Walter Laqueur