Weimar Republic – It was a lot more than an experiment destined to fail. It was one of the first manifestations of diversity in the 20th century.
1920s and the Spanish Influenza – Gang Roundup – February…
The 1920s and the Spanish Influenza. It is really 100 years ago? Let’s have a closer look
That the idea of nationalism goes back to the Enlightenment and the rise of the national states, when the ideas of people and of nation started to form.
The Lost Generation was born right before or right after 1900, and came of age during WWI. But their disillusionment affected even younger people
The Twenties were a time a great innovation. The old world that had existed in the 1800s died in the fires and destruction of WWI. The 1920s saw the emergence of a new world.
Avant Garde artists chose to walk away from a naturalistic representation of reality to sink deep into the human soul and try to represent what was there
The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.
Dada was an artistic Avant Garde of the interwar years in Germany, one that, as many other similar artistic muvements, questioned the times and values of those years.
The post AtoZ Challenge link roundup is full of links about Weimare and the Cabaret (what a surprise!). Short writeup about my first months of 2019
Zeitgeist. It’s a German word. It means the ‘spirit of a time’, the inner energy of a particular place at a particular time. That’s cabaret for 1920s Berlin
‘Americanism’ was a characteristic of interwar year Europe. America became the mythical land of everything modern and young, more an idea than a true place
Bringing Berlin at the same level – possibly higher – to the other European capitals became a priority of the Reich as the German Empire grew and became more powerful in the second half or the 1800s.