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
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.
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
In most countries in the 1920s, the intercourse between people of the same sex was against the law. Still, slowly,this community started to gain recognition
The Lost Generation was born right before or right after 1900, and came of age during WWI. But their disillusionment affected even younger people
We don’t know much about Ernst Haffner, other that he was a social worker and a journalist of the Weimar Republic. He was active as a journalist in Berlin between 1925 and 1933, then he disappeared from all records, presumably engulfed by WWII.
This is his only novel, one of strong social critique.
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.
The variety show originated mainly from the British music halls, where people could drink, eat and smoke while enjoying different numbers from a stage